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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSo it came as no surprise this week when, at the UN Yemen donor conference, the UK confirmed that its decision to cut roughly 50% of its support for humanitarian efforts in Yemen. Britain pledged just \u00a387m \u2013 54% of last year\u2019s donation of \u00a3160m, and only 40% of the total funding the UK provided in 2020. According to the Guardian <\/a>\u201cYemenis and aid organisations have condemned [this] shortfall in international donor funding\u201d \u201cas a \u2018death sentence\u2019 for people suffering in the country\u2019s civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And at the same time that it is cruelly cutting aid to Yemen it is defiantly continuing to provide the weapons and logistical military support to Saudi Arabia without which it would not be able to continue to conduct its ongoing war on Yemen, a war that is causing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. Former Minister Andrew Smith (Conservative) rightly condemned the government for cutting aid but maintained that it is right to continue to sell arms to the Saudis, and, even after stating that our involvement in the war makes us \u201ccomplicit\u201d in the war crimes, almost unbelievably, claiming that, if we don\u2019t sell them the arms \u201csomeone else will\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On another front, this budget will not even come close to providing the funding urgently needed to address the climate crisis. According to Scientists for Global Responsibility<\/a>, in November, the government announced its \u2018ten point plan for a green industrial revolution\u2019 with a budget of \u00a312bn per year, though with only \u00a311bn earmarked for spending in the next four years, averaging \u00a32.8bn per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In December, the Committee of Climate Change (CCC) published its analysis of spending to hit reduction targets for carbon emissions, estimating that government spending in this area for 2020-21 was approximately \u00a35bn. This included \u00a32bn devoted to the Green Homes Grant scheme. The latest evidence is that only \u00a30.1bn of the Green Homes scheme will be spent in this financial year, meaning total spending is only \u00a33.1bn. The CCC estimated that annual government spending needs to increase very rapidly to between \u00a39bn and \u00a312bn in order to meet targets for reducing emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In its May 2019 report \u201cNet Zero: The UKs Contribution to Stopping Global Warming\u201d<\/a> the CCC set out an agenda for reductions needed to reach net Zero GHG emissions by 2050. The Core and Further Ambition options it identifies would only achieve a 96% reduction. What it calls \u201cSpeculative Options\u201d which are less easily achievable include: \u201cchanges in demand (e.g. in aviation and diets) alongside shifts in land use and other measures. 45 MtCO2e of emission savings would be needed from the Speculative options yet, nowhere in the report is there any mention of military sector emissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n