The British government said on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, that claims it was dropping its International Climate Finance pledge are false, after The Guardian reported the country was planning to drop its flagship 11.6 billion pound ($14.76 billion) climate funding pledge.
"The Government remains committed to spending 11.6 billion pounds on international climate finance and we are delivering on that pledge," a spokesperson from the Britain government said.
A document given to the British Foreign Office, which was seen by the Guardian, said "Our commitment to double our international climate finance to 11.6 billion pounds was made in 2019, when we were still at 0.7 [% of GDP spent on international aid] and pre-COVID."