The foreign secretary promised to help poorer countries access renewable energy and reduce their carbon footprints. There's evidence his ambition is genuine - but it's likely to require cash when his government says the public finances are tight.
David Lammy chose to make his first major policy speech as foreign secretary in the lush surroundings of a glasshouse at Kew Gardens. He recalled how his father brought him to Kew as a schoolboy to experience the rainforest environment of his native Guyana. The sort of opening you might expect to hear from a politician - especially one promising to make climate change and biodiversity 'central to all the foreign office does.
And while investment globally is shifting rapidly into renewable energy - which is often less expensive to build - carbon emissions are at all-time highs . The reality is that fossil fuels and conventional agriculture are where the biggest profits are still to be made. You only need to follow the money, as a recent report by NGO Action Aid did, to see that. It concluded since the Paris Agreement in 2016, $3.
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