Why does US Agency for International Development have a ‘climate change coordinator’?

“In Africa, the Trump Administration has moved to eliminate all funding for climate-related or environmental projects across the continent, including in Senegal, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. Indonesia is one of the largest carbon emitters in the world, and, in 2017, U.S.A.I.D. planned to spend $23.3 million on environmental projects there, including a reforestation project designed to control carbon emissions. Only seven million dollars has been allotted to the country in Trump’s 2019 budget proposal. ‘Across the board, there has been a rollback on federal climate-change investments as a result of executive direction,’ Kit Batten, a former U.S.A.I.D. climate-change coördinator, told me.”

http://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/climate-activist-frustration-nobody-is-paying-for-our-free-lunch/


Link at http://www.floppingaces.net/most-wanted/climate-activist-frustration-nobody-is-paying-for-our-free-lunch/

Batten was appointed to the AID position by President Obama. After leaving AID, Batten was executive director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy. In January 2017, Batten was named Climate Resilience Chief at Pacific Gas and Electric. So … government, academia and now Big Power. Her pay check has never bounced.

A professional thing: In journalism school, long ago, students were taught never to refer to themselves in a story. Or, no usage of “I” or “me.” So all that “told me” stuff in the story is the writer stroking her own ego.