Belem, Brazil (Reuters) heads will start in a month in the Amazon City of Belem for the climate summit of the United Nations, but the infrastructure that is intended to receive them remains unfinished.
In addition to what the “Leaders Village” is called, a series of different low -hanging buildings that will house many of the visiting presidents, another three -storey building is far from completion.
The shiny white and glass facade, covered with a helicopter platform, overlooks the complex that set to organize the 197-Nations Climate Messages known as COP30. At the back, away from the road but looms over the presidential homes, the building is a rough scale of concrete and exposed brick.
The Para State Government said that it does not consider the half -finished structure if part of the leaders' village or the wider public works for COP30, although the helicopter platform at the top “will be made available to meet the requirements of the conference.”
Nevertheless, the bustling construction site catches the hectic, unfinished quality that this tropical city of 1.3 million has taken up in the last month of preparations.
The Para State Government said that the more than 30 public works prepared for COP30 with investments of 4.5 billion Reais ($ 845 million) on schedule, including roads, parks, drainage channels and renovated tourist destinations.
The sound of renovations reflected through the international airport and hotels of the city, of which half a dozen is built for the conference.
Work is still ongoing on a pier for huge cruise ships with thousands of berths for visiting delegations. Another terminal that was designed to receive “Floating Hotels” was intended to open in July, but was only 79% completed last month.
Delegations are creative about accommodations because a scarcity of hotel beds has risen prices that can be seen beyond levels at previous conferences, tensions between diplomats, UN organizers and the Brazilian government.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva played that worries during a visit to Belem last week.
“I'm going to sleep on a boat,” he joked in a local television interview. “We don't have the boat yet, but I will find one.”
($ 1 = 5.32 Reais)
(Reporting by Brad Haynes in Belem and Lisandra Paraguassu in Brasilia; adaptation by Aurora Ellis)
