Climate Finance Dispute Prompts Bangladesh To Return £13m of UK AID
by The Daily Eye Team November 12 2016, 11:59 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secsMillions of pounds of climate change aid to Bangladesh has been returned unspent to the British government following a long-running dispute over its delivery. Academics and climate change experts claim the return of £13m to the Department for International Development (DfID) over the past year, through the World Bank, represents a failure by the UK to recognise Bangladesh – one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries – as an expert on the issue.