Mahuta Sends $20M of Tax Payer's Money Overseas Because Climate
November 9, 2022
Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta announced the $20m payment on Wednesday. The funding “strongly signals our support for Pacific priorities”, she said in a statement.
Pacific leaders have told her how climate change is affecting people and ecosystems.
“It threatens the very basis of their lives,” she said. “Loss and damage is happening to homes and crops and fisheries, but it also happens to cultures, languages, people’s mental health and their physical wellbeing.”
The funding is not additional. It will be taken from the current climate aid pot, Mahuta said. The Government announced last year that NZ$325m would be provided annually out to 2025 – equating to US$190m towards the US$100b in climate funds that developed countries promised to give every year.