Nobel Peace and Environmental Prize, Al Gore participated on Friday, 15, the event of The Climato Reality Project in Rio de Janeiro alongside the president of COP-30, André Corrêa do Lago. The vice president of the United States during the government of Bill Clinton called for delegations and activists to go to Belém at the UN climate conference despite the lodging crisis faced by the capital of Pará.
“Go to Belém because they will solve this problem; it’s the president of COP and President Lula who are talking. I know Lula, if they are saying they will do what they have to do so that there are no inclusion problem in this COP is because they will do,” he said. “I will be in Bethlehem.”
During The Climate Reality Project, Al Gore interviewed André Corrêa do Lago, who also came out in defense of the COP’s choice for Belém – earlier this month, representatives of Africa delegations even asked the conference to be held in the capital of Para.
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“I am sure that everyone is very aware of the hotel price issue of Belém and the difficulty of finding accommodation, but I guarantee that the matter is being treated and that there will be rooms for everyone at affordable,” said Corrêa do Lago. “Bethlehem is an amazing city, but no city in the world is designed to receive a COP, only Dubai. Paris had to build a lot. Everyone had to adapt, and we go. Cop will be amazing, they can come.”
Alongside Al Gore, Lago stated that one of the biggest challenges for Belém’s climate meeting is misinformation. According to him, there is a strong negationism as to the benefits of the energy transition that needs to be fought. “We are experiencing a very strange moment, a lot of misinformation, efforts to show that if the economy incorporates solutions to the climate, this will be bad for the country and for people,” he said. “We need to show the positive effects, we need to show that the transition is good for the economy, the quality of life and for job creation.”
Lago stressed the fact that a significant group of ministers of economics and finances from different countries, headed by Fernando Haddad, to form one of the decision circles of COP-30. “This circle is important because when decisions are made (at COP-30), they will have to be applied to the world economy,” he said. “So we need the finance ministers and Haddad understands that very well.”
