Delegates and activists: accommodation issues at COP26 could lead to power imbalance in the negotiation rooms

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Canceled bookings and overpriced hotels have left representatives staying in the houses of local residents or traveling miles to reach the conference.

"We called every hotel and travel site we could think of, but they were booked up by other delegations," a delegate from one Central Asian country said."We have heard some of them are not even in use."

The UK government should have planned better, says one sub-Saharan African country representative."We were unable to book until the last minute because we were waiting to know the agenda, and then everything was gone." Representatives from his country faced technical and language barriers to booking."These issues for developing nations were not considered," he said.

 

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