Climate summit beset with catering issues, forcing delegates to ‘subsist on Tracker bars’ and miss sessions in the hunt for a meal
Negotiators at the Cop27 summit have warned that a lack of food at the conference is impeding the climate talks.
More than 40,000 people have registered for the event, and are being served by just a handful of food stalls at the conference centre in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Attendees are being forced into hour-long queues, only to find there is no food left when they reach the front. There have also been complaints of little or no vegan and vegetarian choices at the green summit.
Some negotiators are being forced to skip the queues and subsist on snacks or leave the conference centre to visit nearby restaurants, a 20 minute drive away.