Posted on 09/21/2025 7:54:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Pooja Tilvawala knows it’s a gamble to use more than $46,000 of her own savings to help young people get to the United Nations climate summit in Brazil. But she thinks it’s a necessary one.
As national delegations, activists and other attendees struggle to find affordable places to stay by November, with some deciding not to go at all, Tilvawala, who lives in London, has spent hours working from afar to find lodging in Belem, negotiate prices and contracts and put down deposits. She did all that to create a housing portal specifically for young people who want to be part of the international conference. If not enough people sign up for the housing she’s secured, she might lose some of what she’s put down.
“There’s always a huge number of fossil fuel company representatives there. And who’s going to be there to combat those voices and those negotiating influences?” said Tilvawala, founder and executive director of the global organization Youth Climate Collaborative. “So I was like, ‘We need to be here.’”
With less than two months before this year’s Conference of the Parties, or COP30, only about 36% of the 196 participating countries have confirmed attendance and paid for accommodations, according to a spokesperson for the conference presidency.
Activists and poorer nations are feeling the crunch as hotel prices have skyrocketed and even private homes, love motels and other makeshift accommodation options are charging a minimum of several hundred dollars a night.
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Drive your EV there, hypocrites.
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Sucker.
Maybe Greta Thunberg can get together a flotilla of sailboats to go to Brazil?
AP is now fundraising for climate activists
No more free ride from USAID ? LOL
People are deeply stupid.
Useful idiot nonpareil.
Minorities, women, and children….
They need a new schtick
Ya Oh My Greta doesn’t fly , wait maybe she can take the train ,LOL
It seems those cut off USAID funds are having an effect. /sarcasm
How do I contact this Pooja Tilvawala person? Because I want to go too, and so need a slice of that $46,000 she’s throwing away.
Ha Ha Ha....
Geez these articles are pathetic worthless. Just reading the headline is brutal
Note Seth Borenstein is a professional climate reporter for the AP. His whole career requires that everyone believes there is a climate crisis.
it’s totally worth it and more- infact, take out huge loans and go- you won’t regret it- hock your house!
“Love motels”?
Are those the ones that normally have hourly room rates?
I love that people are flying in from all over the world to combat climate change / reduce use of hydrocarbon fuels. What a racket.
My goodness. Even the “love motels” are full!
Of course these people are frauds. If they believed their BS, they’d want to attend by Zoom rather than contribute to the massive carbon footprint of this event
Ugh AP really brought on the nausea with this one.
Kind of like the Seinfeld show. A meeting about nothing. One difference. This ain’t gonna be funny cause it cost a lot of mone. In tax dollars. Maybe PDJT will recruit greta to represent the Himalayas.
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