Parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt

WORLD leaders should align anti-poverty and climate strategies to avoid missing key targets for both, a joint report from a cross-party group of parliamentarians and academics said today.

MPs and Lords in the all-party parliamentary group on the United Nations global goals for sustainable development joined University of Sussex researchers to warn that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated global poverty and also hit funding to address it. 

But inequality and the undermining of global development goals could be worsened still further if policies designed to achieve climate targets are “not managed with care,” they stressed.