Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the UK government’s strategy for international development, published on 16 May 2022, if he will make it his policy to increase international climate finance allocated to programmes which reverse biodiversity loss and promote food security, to deliver a nature positive approach.

The UK is delivering on our commitment in the International Development Strategy to provide £3 billion of our £11.6 billion International Climate Finance for protecting, restoring and sustainably managing nature. This includes developing sustainable food systems to avert food security crises in the future and to address climate change and biodiversity loss as fundamental drivers of long-term food insecurity.

The International Development Strategy commits to 'taking steps to ensure UK bilateral Official Development Assistance becomes 'nature positive', aligning with the international goal to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, and the post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, once agreed.'