"Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge"

Not content with repeatedly displaying contempt for the people he purports to serve, the English PM is now set to issue a massive fuckyou to those most vulnerable to climate change.

#ClimateChange #RishiSunak #InternationalAid

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/revealed-uk-plans-to-drop-flagship-climate-pledge-rishi-sunak?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

While #ZacGoldsmith will never be in my books, #Tory on Tory infighting is useful for #factfinding: #RishiSunak has "defined our spending on Afghan and #Ukrainian refugees here in the UK as #internationalaid (something other countries have not done)" and therefore drops the £11.6bn pledge of #climatefinance to the #globalsouth & other vulnerable countries such as small #islandstates. Morally abject and criminal. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/revealed-uk-plans-to-drop-flagship-climate-pledge-rishi-sunak

💰The International Monetary Fund and #Pakistan resumed talks this week on a massive bailout to avert a default and give the country crucial access to foreign currency.

✍️ Amid news that terms of the deal will including imposing about $640 million in taxes & raising interest rates, squeezing the disaster-struck population further, Fahad Saeed and Haris Mushtaq write about the $9 billion in #internationalaid committed last month to Pakistan's #flood recovery.

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Could the Syria earthquake help rehabilitating Assad?

https://www.dw.com/en/could-the-syria-earthquake-help-rehabilitating-assad/a-64667243?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Syria #earthquake #Idlib #Turkey #Basharal-Assad #internationalaid #reconstruction #refugees #Kurdishregion

Governments from around the world
Came to aid of those unfurled
Search and rescue teams
Sent from many regimes
With U.S. help if flags are unfurled

#earthquake #rescue #turkey #internationalaid #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/world/europe/earthquake-turkey-international-aid.html