£680m of UK foreign aid spent on fossil fuel projects – study

Cafod says UK is saddling poorer nations with outdated, polluting technologies

The British government has spent 680m of its foreign aid budget on fossil fuel projects since 2010, according to analysis that highlights the UK's failure to align diplomatic, trade and aid policies with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

Britain allocated more overseas development cash to oil and gas in the two years after signing the 2015 agreement than it had in the previous five, according to the study commissioned by the Catholic development agency Cafod and carried out by the Overseas Development Institute.