UK to put climate crisis and environment at the heart of overseas aid
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#4JE47)
Government will spend 193m on directly tackling climate-related issues in first initiative
The UK will have an "ethical" development policy that puts the climate emergency and environmental protection at the heart of overseas aid, with more than 190m to be spent directly on climate-related issues in the first initiative, the government has announced.
Rory Stewart, the international development secretary, said he hoped this sum would soon be doubled and "run to billions rather than hundreds of millions" within a few years.
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