🌍✨ Revealed: UK relied on £2bn of ‘questionable accounting’ to hit its climate-aid goal
Why we’re watching: Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close ‘Moving the goalposts’ ‘£1bn shortfall’ Accounting changes Methodology The UK has beaten its target to provide £11.6bn of climate aid to developing countries by 2026 – but only through “qu…
Now, Carbon Brief analysis reveals that around £2.1bn of the funds the UK counted towards this goal did not come from new spending. 💚
Instead, the government relabelled existing funding for development banks, private-sector investment and aid for Afghanistan, Sudan and other war-torn nations as “climate finance”.
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- 📌 Key signal: Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close ‘Moving the goalposts’ ‘£1bn shortfall’ Accounting changes Methodology The UK has beaten its target…
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