Committees

MPs probe how UK aid fits with Paris climate promises

17 February 2022

The House of Commons International Development Select Committee is holding a public evidence session on how the UK’s Official Development Assistance aligns with the aims of the UN agreement on climate change adopted in Paris in 2015. In 2019 the UK committed to aligning all its official aid spending with the Paris agreement.

Purpose of the Session

The session will take the form of a question-and-answer session on a review of the extent of the alignment with Paris carried out in 2021 by the watchdog Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI).

The 2021 ICAI review found that the UK Government had made a “strong and relevant commitment” to aligning aid with the Paris accords but that progress towards putting this commitment into practice had been slow.

The session will also see the Select Committee scrutinise the UK Government’s response to the 2021 ICAI review by questioning the Minister responsible for relevant work on climate change.

Witnesses

Tuesday 22 February 2022

At 2.30pm

  • Dr Tamsyn Barton, Chief Commissioner, ICAI
  • Catherine Cameron, Review Team Leader, ICAI and co-founder, Agulhas (consultancy firm and ICAI’s lead service provider)

At approx. 3.15pm

  • Rt Hon Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister for the Pacific and the International Environment and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
  • Vel Gnanendran, Climate and Environment Director, FCDO

Further information

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