Hotel Prices Lead Countries To Consider Skipping COP30 Climate Summit (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/166218/hotel-prices-lead-countries-to-consider-skipping-cop30-climate-summit
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/hotel-prices-make-countries-consider-skipping-cop30-climate-summit-2025-10-03/
> Small island states on the frontline of rising sea levels are confronted with having to consider reducing the size of delegations they send to Belem, while two European nations said they were considering not attending at all.
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> COP30 organisers are racing to convert love motels, cruise ships and churches into lodgings for an anticipated 45,000 delegates. Brazil chose to hold the climate talks at Belem, which typically has 18,000 hotel beds available, in the hope its location on the edge of the Amazon rainforest would focus attention on the threat climate change poses to this ecosystem, and its role in absorbing climate-warming emissions.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/hotel-prices-make-countries-consider-skipping-cop30-climate-summit-2025-10-03/
Horseshit! (Score:2)
> an anticipated 45,000 delegates.
So 230 people from every fucking country on the planet?
Or is it thousands of smog-spewing-shit-stains from a handful of self-righteous and hypocritical countries planning to tell us what sacrifices to make?
Fuck every single one of them with a hot poker.
lower the base rate and hide the real rate in hidd (Score:2)
lower the base rate and hide the real rate in hidden fees
Wrong location for a climate conference (Score:2)
If you want to minimize the carbon footprint of conference-related travel, statistically Madrid is a much better option.
Probably for the better anyway... (Score:2)
We've seen how much meaningful progress they have made in the last decade of the meetings.
Nowadays this summit is just poor countries trying to extract "reparations" from richer ones some the climate change is impacting then more and environmental concerns mean they can't have the same period of industrial growth others did a hundred years ago. China and Western nations pulling up the ladder behind them on a nation-building scale.
The idea of taking action to mitigate a disaster is long past.
Maybe just Zoom or Teams? (Score:2)
Would save some carbon ...
Re: Maybe just Zoom or Teams? (Score:2)
Thats how you know they dont really believe in this - the folks preaching sacrifice for the masses have done nothing to change their own lifestyle.
Re: (Score:2)
Yes it would, but if they used Zoom or *shudder* Teams, they wouldn't be able to get a taxpayer funded vacation out of it. They could have a big Zoom meeting but the turnout would be abysmal and no one of any importance would be in attendance.