{"id":43079,"date":"2022-03-31T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/31\/britain-hands-billions-to-projects-linked-to-labour-abuse-and-climate-damage"},"modified":"2022-03-31T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:45:39","slug":"britain-hands-billions-to-projects-linked-to-labour-abuse-and-climate-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43079","title":{"rendered":"Britain hands billions to projects linked to labour abuse and climate damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Export Finance used \u00a35.24bn of taxpayer money to fund overseas energy and infrastructure ventures \u2013 despite its own review raising concerns<\/p>\n<p>The British government has provided more than \u00a35bn in the past three years to overseas energy and infrastructure projects linked to labour abuses and environmental damage, according to documents and interviews with workers.<\/p>\n<p>The funding \u2013 a combination of loans and guarantees \u2013 comes from the government\u2019s export credit agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/uk-export-finance\">UK Export Finance<\/a> (UKEF), a government department to help UK companies access business contracts overseas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/mar\/31\/britain-hands-billions-to-projects-linked-to-labour-abuse-and-climate-damage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Export Finance used \u00a35.24bn of taxpayer money to fund overseas energy and infrastructure ventures \u2013 despite its own review raising concernsThe British government has provided more than \u00a35bn in the past three years to overseas energy and infrastructu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":986,"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":[401,1162,6,2331,847,657,65,59,53,62,212,61,52,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-bahrain","category-business","category-climate-crisis","category-employment","category-energy-industry","category-environment","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-workers-rights","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\/43079","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\/986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43079\/revisions\/43080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}