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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey

Trump’s USAid cuts will have huge impact on global climate finance, data shows

Vendors fill cans with drinking water from a private water supply plant in Jacobabad, Pakistan
Vendors fill cans with drinking water from a private water supply plant in Jacobabad, Pakistan, one of the world’s hottest cities. The plant is part of a USAid project placed in doubt by Trump’s cuts. Photograph: Fida Hussain/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US overseas aid will almost decimate global climate finance from the developed world, data shows, with potentially devastating impacts on vulnerable nations.

The US was responsible last year for about $8 in every $100 that flowed from the rich world to developing countries, to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of extreme weather, according to data from the analyst organisation Carbon Brief.

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