British taxpayers are underwriting a multi-million-pound loan to help China plant trees as part of a project to tackle climate change.The Treasury has agreed to a European Union scheme to help the country grow forests to compensate for its contribution to global warming.
The Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank – of which the Chancellor is a governor – has lent China £210million (250million euros) to kickstart the project.
Britain has agreed to underwrite the loan, covering 16p in every pound that is not paid back should the debt turn toxic – which would cost us more than £30million.
While EU member states – which are the EIB’s shareholders – are mired in trillions of pounds of debt and sluggish growth, China is now the second largest economy in the world and continues to expand by 2 per cent a year. Read More
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