US EditionCOP30 at Risk: Delegates Push Lula to Find New Host City Beyond Belém
- Representatives from 25 countries are urging Brazil to move COP30 from Belém due to high hotel costs, which they believe are exorbitant, with rates hitting up to $700 per night.
- Belém reportedly lacks enough affordable accommodations, as it only has around 36,000 hotel beds secured, falling short of the 50,000 needed for the summit.
- Brazil's COP30 Special Secretariat has acknowledged the concerns and is in discussions to provide accommodations at capped rates to participants, especially prioritized for those from developing countries.
- Diplomats from various nations are expressing their dissatisfaction with the situation, mentioning that they may need to cut their delegations if the price issues are not resolved before the summit.
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COP30 at Risk: Delegates Push Lula to Find New Host City Beyond Belém
Brazil’s plan to host the 2025 UN Climate Summit (COP30) in Belém, gateway to the Amazon, has run into a big problem: there just aren’t enough affordable places to stay. As of August, 29 international delegations—including those from Europe, Africa, and Asia—warn that unless Brazil finds enough beds at fair prices, COP30 might need a […]
Nations accuse "exorbitant values" of accommodation. Governments intend to reduce delegations or not compare. "There is a feeling, literally, of rebellion," said the president of the event, André Correa do Lake.
In view of the high hotel prices in Belém, Paris, the federal governments and the state of Paris and the United Nations Office on Climate Change discuss the conditions of hospitality for the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change of 2025 (COP30), marked for capital, in November of this year. Delegations from several countries have expressed concern about the highest rates of accommodation.
COP30: Countries require local transfer of the event on account of the abuse of prices in the hotel network and express disorganisation
The president of the event said that in Belém, the newspapers came to be up to 10 times more faces than normal.
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