Recommendation 17

Asked about unintended consequences of green energy projects, Lord Goldsmith, the Minister for the Pacific and the Environment at the FCDO and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), told us that the FCDO’s approach was “generally a pretty robust and holistic one”.36 He said: 28 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (CDC0016) 29 IIED, Forty governments and leading institutions commit to support locall- led climate adaptation, 25 January 2021 30 IIED, Forty governments and leading institutions commit to support locally-led climate adaptation, 25 January 2021 31 Gov.uk, New Global Coalition launched to address impacts of Climate Change, 25 January 2021 32 Gov.uk, Adaptation Action Coalition: an overview, 5 August 2021 33 Gov.uk, Climate Adaptation Summit Talks: launching the Race to Resilience, 25 January 2021 34 Gov.uk, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s Adaptation Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, pp.25–26, 12 December 2020 35 Q48 [Eileen Mairena Cunningham] 36 Q113 [Lord Zac Goldsmith] 12 Global Britain in demand: UK climate action and international development around COP26 I can say with absolute certainty that, if there was a sense that, by doing a particular thing to tackle one problem, we were going to be generating another problem, that would show up in the comprehensive process that FCDO pursues.37