Overseas Aid: Climate Change - 8th February 2010
Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Overseas Aid: Climate Change.
Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-02-08/debates/10020837000019/OverseasAidClimateChange
Mr. Moore
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of the £1.5 billion Fast Start finance for climate change adaptation programmes announced by the Prime Minister at the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2009 will count towards overseas development assistance targets. ( 315410 )
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Gareth Thomas (Labour)
The UK is committed to providing additional post-Fast Start financing after 2012-13 on top of the Government’s commitment to achieve an official development assistance (ODA) level of 0.7 per cent. of gross national income (GNI), and to limiting the share of ODA for climate change finance to no more than 10 per cent. Fast Start finance, which is for the period 2010-11 to 2012-13, will be counted as ODA.
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Mr. Moore
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which existing programmes received funding from budgets subsequently identified as sources of fast start finance for climate change adaptation in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009. ( 315412 )
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