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aid budget by 2026 to reach it. earlier, i spoke with michael wilkins, executive director of the centre for climate finance and investment at imperial college london. it s a little bit of a surprise if indeed it s true that the government will be remeasuring on its previous commitments of international climate finance, especially given that we re in the run up to the next climate change summit taking place in november, in the united arab emirates where this topic is bound to come up. and the uk s commitments, which were hopeful in glasgow only two years ago at cop26, will be looked into question. so it was a bit surprising when i saw it this morning. what kind of difference is this money do to make? due to make? well, you have to put into context, really, in terms of the amount of funding required to tackle the causes and the effects of climate change in the developing world. the poorer countries need massive amounts of investment, and they are just not getting it. y ....
At play here. There is no real Common Ground yet found between the labour and the management. The labour is asking for a Wage Increase of about 36 . The management has offered about 20 . So there is a big gap between the two sides. The Labour Unions have thrown out some almost fantastical wants such as a return to a normal Pension System and even four day work week. These are kind of real outliers there in the Global Industry that would take the unionised American Workers into the kind of Uncharted Territory. Ii into the kind of Uncharted T ....
The labour is asking for a Wage Increase of about 36 . The management has offered about 20 . So there is a big gap between the two sides. The Labour Unions have thrown out some almost fantastical wants such as a return to a normal Pension System and even four day work week. These are kind of real outliers there in the Global Industry that would take the unionised American Workers into the kind of uncharted territory. If you bring in the asian perspective, what are the things that have been done differently here for you to make any comparisons . How do we draw those comparisons as a strike lays out . For background, what you are seeing in the United States ....
And now host of the political satire series oh my world. justine, what do you make of this memo, unconfirmed of course, but this memo seeming to suggest the government is a long way off? i’m government is a long way off? i m not surprised government is a long way off? in not surprised in a way, because you had these two contradictory things happen in back to back years. in 2019, then prime minister boris johnson made a significant commitment, as we ve heard, on climate finance but then the following year, his then chancellor, rishi sunak, also made a significant statement which was that the uk would back away from its pledge on 0.7% gni, which we should reached, down to 0.5%. so at the very time the prime minister was increasing our commitment, the same time, the chancellor was reducing the budget to pay for it. so i think it is ironic that the same chancellor is now the prime minister and having to confront the reality of that ....
So hopefully those messages from other countries are being held at the highest level at the white house. you just touch that will happen in the last several days of the travel policy and the responsiveness that the us had. we had last week the head of the european commission very clearly repeating the eu message calling at the us on climate finance. hopefully that message is being heeded at the highest level in the white house. six. heeded at the highest level in the white house- heeded at the highest level in the white house. six weeks to go. we will see. stay with us on bbc news still to come: for the second time in as many years canadians are voting for a new government. we ll have the latest. derbyshire police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder afterfour bodies including those of three children were discovered in the same house early yesterday morning. ....