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By Paul Homewood

What our billions in “climate aid” are funding!

From the Telegraph:

A £52m road through the Amazon jungle is being built using British aid that is intended to help the climate, The Telegraph can reveal.

The road in Guyana goes nowhere other than a tiny village and has long been criticised by environmentalists, though it is celebrated by the oil industry. It is just one among hundreds of schemes funded by taxpayers through the International Climate Finance initiative (ICF).

Few will have heard of the ICF outside Westminster circles. It is the result of the Government’s determination to push a green agenda: devised under the Conservatives and continued by Ed Miliband, it was set up to funnel aid to climate projects in developing countries. It will be used to spend £11.6bn in foreign aid by the end of this financial year.

But The Telegraph can reveal that dozens of ICF projects have become mired in claims of corruption and waste – while many purportedly green programmes seemingly have nothing to do with the environment.

Projects funded by ICF money include a push to stop ocean plastic pollution in landlocked African countries, support for the Nigerian oil industry, and the distribution of free condoms in the Congo to try to stop deforestation by slowing population growth.

The revelations come days before the Cop30 climate summit, where Sir Keir Starmer will attempt to establish himself as a “world leader” on climate action and net zero.

The Telegraph undertook a seven-month investigation into ICF projects, sifting through thousands of pages of documents obtained through freedom of information requests.

Today, we detail the projects we uncovered – and expose how the political culture around climate change drives decisions on aid spending.

Full story here.

Other waste of taxpayers’ money includes rusting solar panels on schools in Zimbabwe which were not powerful enough to run a TV.

Another scheme, which received £69m in green cash, involved aid workers handing out condoms in the Congo basin to increase “access to contraception… to reduce demographic pressures on forests” and therefore slow the rate of deforestation.

All of this ridiculous expenditure counts towards our climate aid targets, which have been used to bribe the third world to get on the climate bandwagon.

In reality though, they are simply monies which have been reallocated from other areas of Overseas Aid, not new money.

Whatever you may think about foreign aid, taking money from projects which might genuinely help people in order to spend it on climate nonsense is the ultimate in depravity.