Sweeping budget cuts are set to hit UK-funded environmental projects in developing countries, as revealed by FOI data detailed in the Nature Finance Tracker. Among the programmes included in the cuts is the £500m Blue Planet Fund, set up in the wake of Sir David Attenborough’s documentary series. The programme is one of the larger funds going to oceans. In response to the reports, Clare Brook, Blue Marine Foundation’s CEO, said “The ocean is the least funded of all of the 14 UN Sustainable Development Goals, despite being the most important ecosystem for sustaining all life on Earth. The UK’s Blue Planet Fund is one of the few donor country programmes trying to fill that gap… It would be extremely short-sighted of the government to cut funding that is supporting people and nature across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific and Latin America.”
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