[Dawnsblood]

The UK gives aid as loans but the US gives aid as grants. That sounds like an interesting idea.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[paguch]

Make them grants, unless we don’t have warming. If we don’t have warming, charge 15% plus 1% for every degree of cooling. I would buy cooling points at 2% return for every 1 % cooling.

[denydenydeny]

Grants or loans, it’s all going to end up in Swiss bank accounts anyway.

[JoeSixPack1]

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day......

Give ‘em a few million dollar bills and they can have all the best bullet proof limousines available to drive around in and laugh at all the starving, controlled masses, with money left over for indoor plumbing at the palace.

[elkfersupper]

What, exactly is "climate aid" and why are we talking about giving or loaning money for whatever it is?

Sounds to me like control-freak egghead aid and the more it is funded, the more of it you get.

Why would any rational human being want to do that?

[RockinRight]

"The climate situation has not been created by us. The money should come spontaneously from rich countries and not be a loan." Bangladesh expects up to 80 million people to be displaced by climate change within 50 years.

Let me say this as tactfully as possible...

"F**k off."

OK, that wasn't tactful.

[kalee]

Increasing the debt of countries is not a good idea.”

Excuse me but the countries giving you this money will be incurring debt to do so. Where do you think we get it?

[Razz Barry]

According to the government, the £800m will be spent over the next three years, focusing on projects that support development through environmental protection and which help poor countries to tackle climate change. Of the money, £50m has been earmarked for helping 10 countries in central Africa to tackle deforestation in the Congo basin.

I recall the first mention of "climate change" as being caused by the "slash and burn" deforestation of the rain forest. Now, it's "caused", not by those poor countries destroying their forest, but by countries that can pay funds that will, I'm sure, go into the pockets of those in control. This is just another BS excuse to pick our pockets.