BARCELONA — At last month’s G-20 meeting, British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to make U.K. aid greener by only funding projects that support the transition to lower greenhouse gas emissions and that align with country pledges under the Paris climate agreement.
“We will make sure we consider the impact all U.K. aid projects could have on the climate and how the effects of climate change could impact the project,” a spokesperson for the U.K Department for International Development explained to Devex.
It follows the release of a report earlier this year from the parliamentary International Development Committee that identified climate change as the “the single biggest threat to stability and wellbeing in some of the world’s most vulnerable nations” and called for it to be an integral part of all U.K. aid spending decisions.