{"id":7254,"date":"2026-02-19T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:49:14","slug":"the-world-has-pledged-to-triple-climate-financing-for-poorer-countries-is-the-uk-about-to-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/19\/the-world-has-pledged-to-triple-climate-financing-for-poorer-countries-is-the-uk-about-to-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"The world has pledged to triple climate financing for poorer countries. Is the UK about to U-turn?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly 200 nations agreed at the UN climate summit to vastly increase climate finance for poorer countries, with a target to triple annual support to around $300 billion by 2035 as part of global commitments made at COP29. However, reports suggest the UK government may reduce its own climate finance contributions from roughly \u00a311.6 billion over the last five years to about \u00a39 billion over the next five, prompting criticism that the move could undermine international trust and hamper adaptation efforts. The UK says it is \u201cmodernising\u201d its approach to climate finance to maximise impact, though it has not confirmed the alleged cuts. Critics warn that reducing funding now could damage food security and the UK\u2019s standing with vulnerable nations, whose climate resilience depends heavily on promised support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: February 7, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2026\/02\/07\/the-world-has-pledged-to-triple-climate-financing-for-poorer-countries-is-the-uk-about-to-?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 200 nations agreed at the UN climate summit to vastly increase climate finance for poorer countries, with a target to triple annual support to around $300 billion by 2035 as part of global commitments made at COP29. However, reports suggest the UK government may reduce its own climate finance contributions from roughly \u00a311.6 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7483,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/7483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}