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Environment minister says UK government need to 'step up' on NI climate funding

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It comes as the Executive were labelled 'climate chancers' after the Finance Minister rejected £28m in bids for climate finance

Northern Ireland's Environment Minister says the UK Government needs to "step up" and help Stormont invest in the future after £28m in bids for climate finance were rejected by Finance Minister Caoimhe Archibald. Green Party NI senator, Mal O'Hara, has labelled the Executive 'climate chancers' after news of the rejections emerged.

The Newsletter reported how Sinn Fein's Minister Archibald rejected the climate funding requested by ministers despite the party's involvement in delivering the Climate Change Act, which is estimated to cost £2.3 billion up to 2027. Green Party politician, Mal O'Hara, said: "Executive Ministers put in bids totalling only £28m when hundreds of millions are required to address the environmental mess that these executive parties have presided over.

 

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