Posted on 11/01/2025 12:50:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
You’re paying for them, in the name of climate aid.
A £52m road through the Amazon jungle is being built using British aid that is intended to help the climate, The Telegraph can reveal.
The road in Guyana goes nowhere other than a tiny village and has long been criticised by environmentalists, though it is celebrated by the oil industry. It is just one among hundreds of schemes funded by taxpayers through the International Climate Finance initiative (ICF).
Few will have heard of the ICF outside Westminster circles. It is the result of the Government’s determination to push a green agenda: devised under the Conservatives and continued by Ed Miliband, it was set up to funnel aid to climate projects in developing countries. It will be used to spend £11.6bn in foreign aid by the end of this financial year.
But The Telegraph can reveal that dozens of ICF projects have become mired in claims of corruption and waste – while many purportedly green programmes seemingly have nothing to do with the environment.
Projects funded by ICF money include a push to stop ocean plastic pollution in landlocked African countries, support for the Nigerian oil industry, and the distribution of free condoms in the Congo to try to stop deforestation by slowing population growth.
The revelations come days before the Cop30 climate summit, where Sir Keir Starmer will attempt to establish himself as a “world leader” on climate action and net zero.
The Telegraph undertook a seven-month investigation into ICF projects, sifting through thousands of pages of documents obtained through freedom of information requests.
Today, we detail the projects we uncovered – and expose how the political culture around climate change drives decisions on aid spending.
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Door Number 3, Monty:
We paid for all of that.
They are all line items to get money out of the US to be cycled back to democrat campaigns and that is why our govt is shut down because Trump is cutting it off and the RATs are throwing a tantrum, perhaps?
WAG: Funded and brought to you by US AID.
What do I win? 🙂
Hey, roads are good. That’s how I get to the rest of the world.
ICF? International Climate Fund? For once, it wasn’t US AID? 😮
Oooh… Maybe US AID money was funneled to the ICF?! 🤔🧐
What do a £52M ROAD in GUYANA, RUSTING SOLAR PANELS
in ZIMBABWE and CONDOMS in THE CONGO have in common?
<><>Your tax dollars pay for them, in the name of “climate aid.”
<><>A road through the Amazon jungle in Guyana goes nowhere
<><>and has long been criticized
<><>though it is celebrated by the oil industry.
It is just one among hundreds of schemes funded by US taxpayers
through the phony “International Climate Finance initiative” (ICF).
Bingo! We have a winner.
Many projects are supported by the oil industry, to appease the environmentalists. The projects don’t have to be meaningful; they just have to seem useful to keep the environmental wackos at bay.
But, I’m all for condoms, as long as they’re distributed to the environmentalists to keep them from reproducing more environmentalist wackos.
Democrat-controlled Congress funded them.
A lifetime supply of rusty condoms
🤣
“””The road in Guyana goes nowhere other than a tiny village and has long been criticised by environmentalists, though it is celebrated by the oil industry. “””
Point 1-—This is news from the leftist Telegraph.
Point 2-—Guyana is the new hot zone for oil and gas production.
Point 3-—Maybe the oil industry is celebrating because they will be expanding into this area.
Point 4-—As Guyana produces massive amounts of oil and natural gas, the locals can burn clean natural gas instead of chopping down the forests to cook their food.
Point 5-—If the above is the case, then the road does improve the climate.
Must be all those replying to the thread are from the UK - the “we” who paid for this - I don’t see the USA involved at all..
If you are a researcher, a “social scientist”, an analyst, you have things that you study and do. You have a field of expertise, and and interest and experience that you work within.
You also need money.
So, if you want to study hepatitis in the 1980s, you might ask for a grant asking for research on hepatitis on people with AIDS.
If you want to study topography of the moon, you might have want research money to research the feasibility of placing SDI defense or communications on the moon.
The final paper might barely touch AIDS or SDI, but you already got your money. On to the next shoehorned project. New president? Fine. Now an ornithologist will do a study on the effects of “Global Warming” on penguins and other birds.
Rinse. Repeat. Cash checks.
USAID?
Didn’t need to read the story after all.
The moment I saw the headline, I thought, “Democrats”.
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