£1 billion of UK aid to fight climate change in Africa

[Troll]

"The UK is set to pour up to £1 billion of taxpayers money into helping African countries buy arms to fight their neighbours and repress their own people." FTFY

That would actually work if you had Rwandan levels of genocide to reduce the populations

[wobbegong]

"The UK is set to pour up to £1 billion of taxpayers money into helping African countries buy arms to fight their neighbours and repress their own people."

FTFY

[Sysman]

Don't forget the other popular wheeze of giving them the cash and telling them that the energy consultancy will be along to collect it as consultancy revenues in a moment.

The first consultant I came across who had hit the magic 1K a day level was working for the World Bank.

Yes, that money was coming out of the grant to a third world country.

P.S. This was in the 1980s.

[TimberWolf]

Looks like someone's finally fallen for a Nigerian scam email.

Yeah, all we need is their bank details.

[PAH]

Looks like someone's finally fallen for a Nigerian scam email.

[bobspud]

Don't forget the other popular wheeze of giving them the cash and telling them that the energy consultancy will be along to collect it as consultancy revenues in a moment.

[Sysman]

FTFY

Cynic.

Probably bang on the nail though.

[OwlHoot]

"The UK is set to pour up to £1 billion of taxpayers money into helping African countries fight climate change export their raw materials to the UK and accept ship loads of our waste."

FTFY

[Troll]

That's where all the green taxes go !

"The UK is set to pour up to £1 billion of taxpayers money into helping African countries fight climate change."

Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, is due to announce details of a foreign aid package ahead of government talks at a United Nation's summit on climate change in Durban, South Africa, which start this week.

Among the projects to be funded will be schemes to help African farmers insure their crops against flooding and drought while other projects include installing solar power in rural villages and building slurry pits that can produce gas to power generators.

The move, however, is expected to attract intense criticism at a time when the UK economy is struggling to recover from recession.

One of the countries which will receive money is South Africa, the most economically advanced in the continent. Last year its economy grew by 2.8 per cent, while Britain's economy rose by 1.8%.

The finance package comes from a cross-departmental fund set up to tackle climate change in developing countries.