'Resilience and adaptation fund': £150m Foreign Aid shake-up aims to help poorer countries weather climate crises

Stuart Stone
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New White Paper to detail plans for private finance and 'resilience and adaptation fund' to help poorer nations better prepare for climate disasters

A new "resilience and adaptation fund" allocating 15 per cent of the UK's £1bn humanitarian aid budget to help countries prepare for humanitarian and climate disasters is to be announced today as part...

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