Overseas Aid and Climate Change
This suggestion squares the circle on Overseas Aid and helps UK Manufacturing.
The risks of the UK Government sending cash to developing countries overseas are obvious. So why not go for win/win/win? Select a hot country and a nearby seaboard. WIN 1, Manufacture in the UK and build in the recipient’s country solar powered desalination plants for the local population to be employed to operate, WIN 2. And WIN 3, the output could irrigate and produce food and over time grow trees to capture carbon. If more water is not needed then use the sun’s power to capture CO2 via a Direct Air Capture Process.
The UK Government should then little objection to raising the Overseas Aid Budget back up to 0.7%. ANOTHER WIN!