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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey and Jessica Elgot

MYSTERIOUS: Uk to cut climate aid to developing countries by 14 to 2bn a year in refocus | Mind Blowing Facts

People gather in the dark outside a large tent with UK Aid logo and union jack in a compound of shelters in front of a school.
Displaced people gather at a camp in Xai-Xai, Gaza province, Mozambique, after flooding last month. Programmes on health, education and humanitarian assistance all face the axe. Photograph: Zinyange Auntony/AFP/Getty Images

Climate aid to developing countries from the UK will be cut by about 14% to roughly £2bn a year under government plans, in a move critics said would put national security and lives overseas at risk.

The move follows bitter rows with the Treasury, which wanted deeper cuts owing to pressure on spending resulting from the war in Iran.

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