{"id":31456,"date":"2021-04-27T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/27\/shortsighted-uk-cuts-aid-to-project-preparing-cities-for-natural-disaster"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:00:06","slug":"shortsighted-uk-cuts-aid-to-project-preparing-cities-for-natural-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31456","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shortsighted\u2019: UK cuts aid to project preparing cities for natural disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Quito to Kathmandu, millions will be endangered by cuts affecting planning for floods, earthquakes and fires, experts say<\/p>\n<p>UK aid cuts to a programme working to reduce the disaster risk to poor communities around the world could endanger millions of lives and slam shut a brief window of opportunity to build safer cities for centuries to come, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Professor John McCloskey, from Edinburgh University, said the 70% cut to this year\u2019s budget for the <a href=\"https:\/\/tomorrowscities.org\/tomorrows-kathmandu-statement-uk-government-overseas-development-assistance-cuts\">Tomorrow\u2019s Cities<\/a> project was an act of \u201cvandalism\u201d that had wrecked the past two years of collaboration with scientists, NGOs, authorities and communities in Ecuador\u2019s capital Quito, Nairobi, Kathmandu and Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/27\/shortsighted-uk-cuts-aid-to-project-preparing-cities-for-natural-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Quito to Kathmandu, millions will be endangered by cuts affecting planning for floods, earthquakes and fires, experts sayUK aid cuts to a programme working to reduce the disaster risk to poor communities around the world could endanger millions of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,247,246,217,990,319,59,1086,1709,241,4,79,61,52,896,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aid","category-americas","category-cities","category-ecuador","category-foreign-policy","category-global-development","category-kenya","category-natural-disasters","category-nepal","category-politics","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-urbanisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31457,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456\/revisions\/31457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}