State Department Burns $2.5 Million Plus on Hotels for Paris Climate Conference

The COP 21 climate conference held in Paris in December was no low-budget affair. Two different expenditures for hotels alone for the gathering came to over $2.5 million. A single contract alone came to almost $2 million. That contract involved five different hotels and totaled and estimated $1,968,707 for an estimated 3,588 room nights. (That number of room nights amounts to almost ten years.)


There was a second contract specifically with the Hotel Westin in Paris covering a longer period of time, presumably because that portion of the delegation included “security, communications, logistics, and operations.” The Westin contract was an estimated $588,666 for various rooms: singles, doubles, suites.


The conference itself took place over only two days, December 7-8, 2015. However, apparently many pre- and post- conference meetings and negotiations took place to justify the massive size and length of stay of the US delegation. The contracts were posted online about a week and a half ago.

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