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IDC launches climate change inquiry ahead of COP26
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20 Apr 2021
The International Development Committee has today launched an inquiry examining, ahead of COP26 in November, the progress the Government has made putting climate change at the centre of aid policy.
Developing countries are disproportionately affected by the impact of climate change, and less able to respond. For example, many lower-income countries are highly indebted and rely more heavily on climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture, forestry and tourism. The World Bank has suggested that Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are among the regions most vulnerable to climate change.
These concerns were echoed in the predecessor Committee’s report
‘No country immune’ from UK’s aid cuts, says Raab Karen McVeigh © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jeff Overs/PA
The UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has told MPs that “no country is immune” from the impending aid cuts, but failed to clarify when specific plans would be made public.
Speaking after the release of the first details of the £4bn cuts to international aid, which have been widely criticised as “draconian” and opaque, the minister confirmed “no stand-alone” impact assessment had been carried out in individual countries but that “we identify risks we see across the board”.
“We are still doing the country-by-country plans,” said Raab, during a two-hour session at the Commons international development committee, which scrutinises the aid budget. “I don’t think it’s realistic to think that any country will be entirely immune from the savings we’ve had to make.”
No country will be ‘immune’ from aid cuts but full details may not be published until 2022
Foreign secretary defends UK s proud legacy of generosity despite overseas development budget reduction of £5bn
22 April 2021 • 3:51pm
Dominic Raab rejected accusations he had ‘sneaked out’ the cuts
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No country will be “entirely immune” from aid cuts, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has warned, as he was grilled by MPs on how the slimmed-down overseas development budget will be spent.
Giving evidence to the international development select committee, a day after the publication of a brief but long-awaited statement setting out how aid money would be allocated this financial year, Mr Raab said information on country-by-country cuts may not be released until 2022.
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