COVID stimulus spending failed to deliver on climate promises
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How Much Money Are We Going to Spend on Climate Related Recovery?
The vast majority of spending overa was on things that had an indirect impact and so six % overall on activities that reduce emissions. The european union sould of pons out ahead. They spent, or promised to spend, more than forty percent of their recovery funds on on climate. And there other countries that did well, like south korea, germany did fairly well. Italy. I think the real surprises to us were sort of countries that have been talking a lot about climate recently, but then didn't come through with strong admissions for sing elements in their recovery packages. So not many governments actually gave us concrete numbers to start with to say, this is how much money
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