‘Love motels’ and Amazon oil drilling are just a few of the ways this global gathering is mired in chaos

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1. Love motels are common throughout Brazil, with rooms available by the hour often booked for romantic trysts. But as tens of thousands of people descend on Belém [for COP30](https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/climate/un-climate-summit-cop30-brazil-trump) — the world’s biggest annual climate summit — a dearth of accommodation has led to a scramble for beds. Love motels like Teixeira’s are ready and willing to fill the gap.

   The prospect of diplomats, scientists and climate activists being asked to specify which erotic features they’d like removed from rooms is striking, but it also speaks to a serious issue. As delegates compete for beds, rates have spiked and some developing countries and non-profits say they are being priced out of the summit. Accommodation woes are just one example of the chaos and uncertainty some experts say have paved the way to this summit.

   COP30 was billed as a landmark gathering, where countries would chart a course to dramatically cut climate pollution. Instead, huge polluters have missed multiple deadlines to submit national climate goals, President Donald Trump is fresh from a speech [calling climate change a “con job,”](https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/politics/fact-check-un-speech-claims-trump) the US says it will not send a delegation to the summit, and Brazil has just approved oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon — all the while, global temperatures [tick upward](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/climate/2024-hottest-year-record) and climate targets [slip out of reach](https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/climate/climate-target-overshoot-united-nations-global-temperature).

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