UK Spent £800K on COP Climate Summit, Despite Energy Crisis

0:00On March 21st, new figures show UK taxpayers footed a bill of more than 800,000 pounds for Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, and 73 delegates from the Net Zero Department at last autumn COP 30 climate summit in Brazil. Flights alone cost 210,450 pounds, plus over 6,000 pounds in carbon offsets, while nearly 600. 1,000 pounds went to private apartments in Host City, due to high prices, with another 28,000 pounds on extras, and more claims, still pending. Critics are fuming over the expense, especially as Miliband made two trips to Brazil and Britain faces soaring energy bills without new North Sea oil, and gas drilling, while the summit saw no fossil fuel phase out pledge, after boycotts by the US, China, and India. The taxpayers' alliance called it a massive waste, slamming the huge delegation and luxury stays amid public money woes, though sources say the UK,

1:02sent a smaller team than before, and got sponsorship for the Pavilion. Government officials defend the trip as key to a new roadmap, with over 80 countries on renewables for energy security, but with over 200. Total UK attendees, including MPs and diplomats, the full cost remain unclear, as flights by ministers keep piling up.