Poor Countries Outraged Over ‘Exorbitant’ Hotel Prices for U.N. Climate Alarmism Event COP30

(Breitbart)—Representatives from 25 countries invited to the United Nations’ COP30 climate alarmism summit are pressuring the government of radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to relocate the event out of the city of Belém due to “exorbitant” lodging prices, Brazilian outlets reported on Thursday.

Brazil is slated to host the COP30 summit between November 10-21, in which participating nations will gather to discuss “climate solutions.” Despite the event being centered around “climate change” and other purported environmental causes, reports published in May indicate that thousands of acres of the Amazon Rainforest have been decimated to make way for a new highway to prepare Belém’s traffic routes for the U.N. summit.

Brazilian Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, who holds the country’s COP30 presidency, said during a correspondents’ meeting on Thursday that participating nations are pressuring Brazil to relocate the summit to another city due to high hotel costs.

The diplomat reportedly explained that while in past editions of the COP, hotels charged double or triple the usual rates, in Belém, daily rates are “up to ten times” higher than normal. Since Brazilian law does not allow limits on daily hotel rates, Corrêa do Lago said that the only option they have is to engage in talks with hotel chains.

“There is, in fact, outrage over this insensitivity, especially on the part of developing countries — those with lower levels of relative development — due to the abusive prices being charged,” Corrêa do Lago said.

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