By Lisandra Paraguassu and Kate Abnett

BRASILIA (Reuters) -The U.N. will give low-income countries more money to help them attend COP30, the global climate summit set to take place in Brazil this November, in view of soaring accommodation costs in the Amazonian city of Belem.

For months, Brazil has resisted calls to move the conference out of Belem, with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva showing no willingness to backtrack on his promise to present the Amazon rainforest to the world at COP30.

The U.N.’s International Civil Service Commission, which decides on the “daily subsistence allowance,” has agreed to raise it for Belem, after a request from the U.N.’s climate secretariat, a spokesperson for the secretariat told Reuters.

According to a statement released by the Brazilian COP30

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