Rishi Sunak reportedly set to drop £11.6bn climate and nature pledge
By Paul Homewood
From The Herald:
Rishi Sunak’s promise to meet an £11.6 billion climate and nature pledge looks set to be missed, according to a leaked internal memo.
The president who oversaw the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow has warned against the move.
The briefing note to ministers sets out that the international funding commitment would be a “huge challenge” and require backing for other aid projects to be slashed.
The UK Government insisted it is delivering on the pledge and said suggestions the commitment could be dropped are “false”.
Last week, the UK Government’s statutory advisers, the Climate Change Committee, warned Tory ministers have undermined the careful language” used to negotiate a global climate pact at COP26 in Glasgow over its insistence to expand oil and gas development.
It added that the UK has “sent confusing signals on its climate priorities to the global community”.
The memo, obtained by the Guardian, says the commitment to provide £11.6 billion between April 2021 and March 2026 was made at a time when the Government was meeting its legally-enshrined target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid.
That commitment was dropped to 0.5% as a result of the impact of Covid-19 on the nation’s finances.
The leaked document said meeting the climate pledge within this spending “would squeeze out room for other commitments such as humanitarian and women and girls”.
As I have pointed out before, all of this “climate aid” promised by the UK is simply funded by the Overseas Aid budget. So spending money on renewable energy projects in Africa, for instance, means there is less to spend on real needs.
Let’s hope, for the sake of the third world, that this rumour is true, and that the PM grows a pair for a change!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The government claims it’s not true, but some reading between the lines may be advisable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66105901
Looks like men and boys are second class citizens, no matter what their circumstances!
And, I expect, those with Climate Sceptic views or expertise in the Natural Sciences and Engineering will be at least third class, if not lower.
No wonder we don’t have the manufacturing capabilities to produce, in quantity, anything military, let alone civilian.
Yet government policies ignore these ‘difficulties’, and have contempt for those that encounter them often.
I would rather not use the term ‘Climate Sceptic’ perhaps better to use AGW sceptic.
If true, it is a start, but a lot more than “only” 11.6 billion has already been and is still being threatened to be wasted on the “climate” scam.
If only it were true, it would be a start on getting rid of NetZero and the costs of the climate change scam.
Scrapping the £20 Billion on Carbon Capture and Storage that Grant Shapps has committed us to pay for would be even better.
True enough. I wonder what will become of Drax, whose future was to be “carbon negative” BECCS? OFGEM are investigating whether their biomass supply really is properly sustainable, and thus whether they should not hand back their ROC subsidies. Should they rule against Drax it will create an immediate capacity crunch as we will lose 2.6GW of generation there on top of the now closed 1.3GW of coal that remained.
How can governments continually ignore that man-made climate change, especially from CO2 emissions, is a giant scam which will cost billions and the climate will carry on changing through normal climactic chnges regardless.
Quite right, Ian. But the thing they seem to miss, whatever is causing whatever warming the world is experiencing now, how will the pol’ies react if the next natural warming is a great deal more that now? Oh dear.
The UK Govt has signed up to the UN CC agenda which is designed destroy capitalism and usher in global socialism as outlined by Christiana Figueres:
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 – you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.”
The UN policy is supported by Labour, the Lib Dems and Greens meaning the UK electorate has no way of objecting through the ballot box,
The only way is being very upset with the Government, especially when there is an election coming, in which the one party in power looks like becoming a distant minority.
Getting rid of things like the (proposed) hydrogen levy won’t make any difference to the existing electricity bills, so a desperate party (that wants to get back) may as well dump the carbon levy, the subsidies for wind and for those polluting biofuel plants. And probably the bann on IC vehicles.
Especially as there is no good news about Green things in Europe.
UAH June.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
|Just +0.01C change in anomaly from last month.
I guess the falling out with Zac was very severe. He had been the big champion of this way to waste taxpayer money.
There are pitiful adverts on TV for donkey charities, featuring animal being worked to death by poverty-stricken people. In a fair world Justin Rowlatt would have to interview such people and explain why western virtue signallers and rent seekers are intent on their conditions not improving, ever.