According to André Corrêa do Lago, in most cities where the conferences take place, the hotels are asking for double or triple the value
In an interview with Foreign Correspondents, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, chosen to be president of the 30th Climate Change Conference () in November, said there is a very large government effort, led by the Civil House, to be able to convince hotels in, to lower prices for the event, in the face of up to 10 times the normal value.
He admitted that hotels usually increase prices in all COPs that have already been made, but in Bethlehem there is an extortive movement, and for this reason some countries have already expressed that they can stop participating.
“In most cities where COPs have happened, hotels have been asking double or triple. In the case of Belém, hotels are asking for more than 10 times the normal values. So there is a sensation, literally, of revolt of countries for this insensitivity, especially from developing countries, the lowest relative development, which they can not come to COP because of the abusive, abusive prices, which are being charged, ”he said.
“The efforts continue, but I believe, perhaps, that the hotels are not realizing the crisis they are provoking, and this has become, from the moment it has been public, with the statement of a representative from African countries, in an interview with Reuters, that countries are asking to take it the COP from Belém,” he added.
Rio 92
The ambassador stressed that the summit is part of a process that began in 1992, with Rio-92, and that happens at the moment the nationally determined contributions will be published ”(in English,“ Nationally Deterned Contributions ”, NDC) by 2035“ the summit will show us how close or far we are from the limit of 1.5 ° C of global temperature ”.
Lago, which has emphasized that Brazil’s summit must be remembered by the implementation of existing solutions and technologies, to advance in a new economic model based on a low carbon, emphasized that the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) will be invited to the negotiation spaces, the so -called South Zone.
“We need much more resources for the energy transition and, no doubt, that this is one of the efforts to enable the necessary investments in these projects,” said journalists. “The way the world needs to deal with fossils is something that needs to be done at COP30,” he added.
The president of the Brazilian Institute of Oil and Gas (IBP), Roberto Ardenghy, endorsed that there is a commitment of the oil and gas sector to the process of decarbonizing its activities and studying ways to finance the energy addition. “We don’t want to be out of the debates,” he praised.
In his assessment, the energy transition cannot be a factor of world imbalance or the expansion of energy poverty. “The world will continue to increase its energy consumption in the coming years and fossil fuels deliver an important service to various economies, cheap and safe. We need to think of the use of fossil fuels more focused on the industrial sector, such as the petrochemical and fertilizer sector, for example.”
*With information from Estadão Content
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