Brazilian government argues that the United Nations leaves the ‘comfort zone’ and offers solutions and financial aid to the nations that will participate in the conference
The Brazilian government will create a task force to directly assist in the negotiation of lodging for foreign delegations in during . This Friday (22), Brazil denied a request from To subsidize the accommodation of countries and asked the entity to expand financial aid to nations to participate in the conference. During a meeting with the UN team, Brazil argued that the organization leaves the “comfort zone” and offers solutions. The Brazilian government supported a claim from the poorest countries for increased rates paid by the UNFCC, UN environmental arm, for reserves in COP.
COP30 has been living a hosting crisis due to the exorbitant price increase. In some cases, reserves for the event period, from November 10 to 21, arrived at home of more than $ 1 million. In this scenario, 29 countries signed a letter asking the Brazilian government to change the city headquarters. Brazil, in turn, reiterates that COP-30 will take place in Belém.
This Friday, the Brazilian government attended a meeting with the UNFCCC team to answer 48 questions about the logistics of COP30. To date, delegations from 39 countries have confirmed their reserves on the federal government’s lodging platform and eight others have already filed on the outside. In this last group Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Norway are in this group. “The Brazilian government has made it clear that there is no condition of change of headquarters,” said the executive secretary of the Civil House, Miriam Belchior, who attended the meeting.
UN subsidy
The UN even asked Brazil to provide financial assistance to the conference participating countries. The proposal was denied by the Brazilian organization. “Yesterday’s letter of the UN explicitly asked for limitation of the number of negotiators, which we would guarantee $ 100 for less developed and island countries and another range for developed countries. We clearly say that Brazil has no condition, but (we support) this proposal for UN to rise a little to the contribution it makes,” said Miriam Belchior.
She states that the UN set at $ 144 the value of the allowance for Belém, but in other countries, such as Germany, where the Bonn conference occurs, a preparatory for COP, the value was $ 400. “In any other city they would pay, so why don’t they pay for Bonn’s $ 400? 250?
The representatives of the Brazilian government stated that the UN justified that the change in values would require time. “What we ask is that they would do a reconsideration, that we are supporting (the claim), that they (the UN) could also help us, get out of this more technical part, more protocol and that could focus efforts with the host country to find solutions. They get some of their comfort zone so that they can make a better or greater contribution in this regard of solutions,” said Correia.
Task force
In this context, Brazil will create a task force with employees of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Tourism, the Environment and Climate Change; and with members of the COP Secretariat to assist foreign delegations in lodging negotiations. “The idea is that we have a group of people who can call the UN’s own focus poles in these countries to ask, know what is happening and see what we can solve,” explained COP30 Extraordinary Secretary Valter Correia.
According to him, Brazil will contact the poorest countries first, which have been the most affected by the accommodation crisis, and then to others to “find an alternative with local knowledge.” “The state government has a vast knowledge of condominiums, people (with rental properties), who can help,” he said.
*With information from Estadão Content
