UN holds emergency talks over sky-high costs for COP30 climate summit


  • World
  • Wednesday, 30 Jul 2025

FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows a hotel under construction ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil July 16, 2025. REUTERS/Wagner Santana/File Photo

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The United Nations' climate bureau held an urgent meeting on Tuesday over concerns that sky-high accommodation prices for this year's COP30 climate summit in Brazil could price poorer countries out of the negotiations, according to diplomats and a document seen by Reuters.

Brazil is preparing to host this year's U.N. climate summit in November in the rainforest city of Belem, where nearly every government in the world will gather to negotiate their joint efforts to curb climate change.

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