The UK has announced a £330 million support package to address the growing security risks that climate change poses.
The cash will go to the Global Environment Facility and will support sustainable agriculture and fishing to help protect ‘critical’ ecosystems such as the Amazon and Congo Basin.
The funding will also reduce environmental degradation, including desertification and deforestation, and strengthen resilience to droughts and flooding.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said: “This year, once again, the impacts of climate change have been unprecedented and devastating – lethal heatwaves, drought, fires, and flooding accelerated by glacial melt.
“Impacts that hit people’s daily lives and livelihoods as never before.”
The UK is also providing £1 million to the UN Climate Security Mechanism, which helps countries identify and respond to climate-related risks before they escalate into conflict and humanitarian crises.
Mr Miliband warned that countries should anticipate event such as El Nino and invest in resilience “before crisis hits”. He says the UK is putting climate and nature security “at the heart” of the country’s foreign policy decision-making.
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