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Days before Trump’s inauguration, State Dept. sends $500 million to United Nations climate fund
WaPo ^ | January 17 at 3:59 PM | Chris Mooney

Posted on 01/17/2017 3:23:21 PM PST by BenLurkin

That’s on top of another $500 million transferred last March, meaning the United States has now sent $1 billion to the fund, or a third of the president’s pledge.

“The Green Climate Fund is a critical tool that helps catalyze billions of dollars in public and private investment in countries dealing not only with the challenges of climate change, but the immense economic opportunities that are embedded in the transition to a lower carbon economy,” said Department spokesman John Kirby at a press briefing Tuesday.

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Kirby said in a statement that the funds came from a 2016 appropriation for the agency’s Economic Support Fund. This $4.3 billion fund contains some dollars earmarked for specific programs and other dollars that are not officially allocated — the current monies came from the latter.

By the year 2020, under the 2009 Copenhagen accord, developed nations are supposed to be allocating $100 billion annually on climate-change aid to poorer, developing nations, money to be used for clean energy projects and climate change adaptation measures, among other expenditures. Much, but not all of this money is intended to be distributed through the Green Climate Fund, which has already raised $10 billion so far.

The broader idea of wealthier nations helping poorer ones adapt to a changing planet, and to transition their energy systems, was a fundamental component of bringing all nations on board to the agreement, and environmental groups hailed the move Tuesday.

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At the State Department press briefing, when asked about the timing of the release of the funds, Kirby said that “this is an investment that had been long-planned. I don’t — I don’t believe there was any nefarious desire or intent to do it just two days before [the inauguration].”

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Obama/Kerry doing as much damage to America as possible before getting tossed onto the street.
1 posted on 01/17/2017 3:23:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

@ssholes.


2 posted on 01/17/2017 3:24:41 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Tell them to return it


3 posted on 01/17/2017 3:24:48 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: BenLurkin

The last money the UN will probably see from the US.


4 posted on 01/17/2017 3:26:07 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: BenLurkin

I’d say make that the last US Taxpayer money they receive.


5 posted on 01/17/2017 3:27:08 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: BenLurkin

coughForSkimmingLaterLikeTheClintonFoundationcough

Buying future favors before hitting the door. With OPM. And I don’t meant Office of Personnel Management.


6 posted on 01/17/2017 3:27:27 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: BenLurkin

How much will actually be spent on “alternative energy” and how much will get funneled into “climate change” political advocacy is any one’s guess.


7 posted on 01/17/2017 3:29:45 PM PST by Wuli
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To: BenLurkin

So SOS John F’n Kerry is just following orders ... total scum!


8 posted on 01/17/2017 3:30:02 PM PST by Ken522
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To: McGavin999

REFUSE TO HONOR THE CHECK.... RUBBER/BOUNCE THE CHECK


9 posted on 01/17/2017 3:30:44 PM PST by ptsal
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To: BenLurkin

cancel the check


10 posted on 01/17/2017 3:30:55 PM PST by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

” I don’t — I don’t believe there was any nefarious desire or intent to do it just two days before [the inauguration].”

LIAR.


11 posted on 01/17/2017 3:35:03 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: BenLurkin
Kirby said in a statement that the funds came from a 2016 appropriation for the agency’s Economic Support Fund.

Whichever Congressional idiots approved this need to be cut down to size. Hopefully whoever Trump's SOS turns out to be will make some heads roll in that out-of-control department.

12 posted on 01/17/2017 3:36:03 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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First time there’s a cold day, sue for fraud.


13 posted on 01/17/2017 3:36:23 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Listen for my radio call-in program on channel A in your brain, yes caller ... I'm listening)
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To: BenLurkin
Must be nice to be a dictator and do whatever you want to.
14 posted on 01/17/2017 3:37:23 PM PST by McGruff (#LameDuck)
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To: BenLurkin

The “transfer” is not instantaneous. It takes time for it to actually be completed, and if Trump so desires, he can pull that money back the moment he assumes the office of POTUS.


15 posted on 01/17/2017 3:38:33 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Wuli
How much will actually be spent on “alternative energy” and how much will get funneled into “climate change” political advocacy is any one’s guess.

You are being generous in assuming that much of the money will funneled into something that at least the left considers useful. I am thinking despots Swiss bank accounts and luxuries (e.g. $4K suits).

16 posted on 01/17/2017 3:38:45 PM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: BenLurkin

Ripping off the taxpayers one last time.....


17 posted on 01/17/2017 3:39:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: BenLurkin

“Funds earmarked for specific ***programs***”

Translation: teat-cash destined to be sucked up by thousands of newly hired, do-nothing bureaucrats.

Just like in the old Soviet Union under Stalin, a whole new class of oppressors is being given power in the so-called classless utopia.


18 posted on 01/17/2017 3:39:15 PM PST by mumblypeg (Chicago called. They want their village idiot back.)
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To: BenLurkin

19 posted on 01/17/2017 3:39:35 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: BenLurkin

Move the UN to Germany. Merkel takes all refugees.


20 posted on 01/17/2017 3:43:07 PM PST by eddie willers
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