The UK Government has been bankrolling polluting fossil fuel projects in Africa and Asia while publicly committing to net zero at home, The i Paper can reveal.

Hundreds of millions of pounds of Britain’s international aid budget is invested in oil and gas projects, with profits being funneled back to the UK taxpayer.

British International Investment (BII), which is owned by the Foreign Office , has funded power plants and pipelines as part of its remit to invest in “development” projects for a financial return.

This includes three gas power plants in Ghana, as well as the construction of a giant floating port, which will receive shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from other countries. New Feature

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