“The ultimate result will be to take the raw data and spread it as wide as we can,” said Allyson Sosa, who moved to the UAE in January. “I find a lot of people who are in disbelief. They cannot believe it has come to this and no one has done enough about it.”

UAE ambassadors for the environment

For Mr Paul, one of the strongest indicators of the need for action is the melting of the Arctic ice cap, which has shrunk in size from six million square kilometres in 1979 to 3.5 million square kilometres in 2012.