Asked by: Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2020 on Developing Countries: Forests, how much funding her Department allocated to each of those international forestry projects.
Answered by James Duddridge
The total budgets allocated to the international forestry projects listed in the Answer of 12 March 2020 are provided in the table below.
Project | Duration of funding | Total budget allocated |
Nepal Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme | 2011-2016 | £16,124,703 |
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (Global) | 2011-2023 | £280,000,000 |
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use (Global) | 2015-2023 | £ 102,596,352 |
International Forestry Knowledge programme (Global) | 2012-2017 | £36,987,765 |
Forestry, Land-use and Governance in Indonesia | 2015-2020 | £32,549,986 |
Improving Livelihoods and Land Use in Congo Basin Forests | 2015-2020 | £15,260,720 |
Green Economic Growth for West Papua (Indonesia) | 2016-2022 | £11,512,311 |
Supporting a Sustainable Future for West Papua’s Forests (Indonesia) | 2018-2020 | £6,200,000 |
Total |
| £501,231,837 |
Asked by: Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2020 to Question 1890 on Developing Countries: Environment Protection, if she will list the international forestry projects that have received grants from her Department in each year since 2016.
Answered by James Duddridge
The international forestry projects receiving funding since 2016 are as follows:
In addition, DFID supports forestry projects through its grant contributions to two multilateral funds, the Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund.
Asked by: Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding provided by his Department for environmental projects in the developing world.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
Tackling climate change and environmental degradation are key priorities for DFID and this Government. At UNCAS in September, the PM announced a new £220m International Biodiversity Fund and that the UK will double our international climate finance to £11.6bn between 2021-2025, helping developing countries to take action in these areas.
Asked by: Lord Grayling (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) grants and (b) other funding his Department has allocated to international re-greening projects in each of the last three years.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
DFID supports activities related to re-greening in various areas. This includes forestry, where DFID contributes to the UK’s efforts to protect biodiversity, reduce carbon emissions and support the livelihoods of communities reliant on forests and agriculture. Between 2016-2019, DFID provided grants totalling £211 million (bi-lateral and multi-lateral) for international forestry projects.
The UK is also doubling its International Climate Finance to at least £11.6 billion over the period 2021-2025 to help developing countries take action on climate change. This will include a major uplift to support nature-based solutions to climate change.