Global climate funding in Biden’s budget

Speaking Security Newsletter | Advisory Note for Activists and Candidates, n°155 | 22 April 2022

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Comparing US funding for global climate programs vs. apartheid 

It is Earth Day so we’ve got to talk about Joe Biden’s failure to properly fund global climate programs. The FY2022 omnibus spending bill Biden signed into law last month provides barely over $1 billion in international climate finance, thereby radically underfunding both bilateral and multilateral commitments. So despite Biden’s repeated assertions that the US is a leader on climate (including in his interim national security strategy), the money just isn’t there to back it up.

Plenty of funding in Biden’s FY2022 budget for reinforcing apartheid, though. Biden’s spending bill includes the typical $3.8 billion in military aid the US usually gives to Israel each year—$3.3 billion in ‘base’ bilateral security assistance plus another $500 million for missile defense systems—but Biden’s FY2022 budget also includes $1 billion in supplemental funding on top of that.

-Stephen (@stephensemler; stephen@securityreform.org)

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