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Select committee: International Development Committee

UK aid for combating climate change inquiry

Closed Opened 12 Jul 2018 Closed 10 Jul 2018

International Development Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Committee calls on the UK Government to set an example and provide international leadership to realign the focus of aid policy, strategy and funding, to place climate change at the centre. The negative consequences of a failure to act will be so serious as to nullify the effectiveness of wider aid spending. The UK’s commitment of spending £1.76 billion on climate finance, dedicated aid spending for climate change related activities, should become the annual minimum. UK aid for fossil fuel projects should end, unless it demonstrably supports transition towards zero global emissions by 2050. Read the Government response: UK aid for combating climate change Read the Report: UK aid for combating climate change [PDF] Read the report: UK aid for combating climate change [HTML]

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 12 July 2018.

The committee has published 1 report, most recently 11th Report - UK aid for combating climate change on 8 May 2019.

The government's response

Published 1 August 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Government's response to the Committee's report records "Agree" on many recommendations, "Partially agree" on several, and "Disagree" on others, including those on private finance tracking, ICF governance, new legislation and loss and damage.

  • On climate finance spending, the Government agrees, "though we note that future spending on ICF will be agreed in the Spending Review". It says a decision beyond 2020/21 "will be made as part of the forthcoming Spending Review".
  • On transparency it "partially" agrees. It will "ensure programme and project level data is identifiable" under IATI standards by November 2020, but is "not convinced" that more detailed information would justify the costs.
  • The Government disagrees with the recommendation on tracking private finance reaching those who need it most; it does "not intend" to set up a new metric, citing the complexity of tracking private sector flows.
  • It disagrees with new ICF governance arrangements and with legislation modelled on the Gender Equality Act, stating it "does not agree that new legislation on ODA and climate change is needed".

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Reports

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Evidence

  • 5 oral evidence sessionsLatest 6 March 2019
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Reports

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Oral evidence sessions

5 sessions

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Date Session and witnesses Source
6 Mar 2019
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12 Feb 2019
Oral evidence session
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29 Jan 2019
Oral evidence session
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4 Dec 2018
Oral evidence session
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16 Oct 2018
Oral evidence session
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