"The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution."
"The suite, with its crisp white sheets and tiny soaps, could almost pass for any no-frills hotel room. That is, if it weren’t for the mirrored ceilings and the dance pole by the bed.
The décor of Motel Secreto, on the fringes of the Brazilian city of Belém, normally serves as a backdrop for lunch-hour trysts, clandestine affairs and passion-struck lovers seeking a few hours of privacy away from cramped family homes.
But the love motel, like others across Belém, is now preparing rooms that range from the sensual to the raunchy for a different kind of guest: diplomats and climate scientists, civil servants and environmental activists, all descending on the city in November for the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30."
Ana Ionova reports for the New York Times with visuals by María Magdalena Arréllaga July 27, 2025.
SEE ALSO:
"To Host UN Climate Talks, Brazil Chose One Of Its Poorer Cities. That’S No Accident" (AP)
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-cop30-brazil-climate-do-lago-1...
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