NEF & IIED on the gravy train with taxpayer funded lobbying

Over at BBC-Biased I pointed out this BBC report and it's doom laden "climate change" catastrophism.

Climate 'will undo Asian success'
Climate change will reverse decades of social and economic progress across Asia, campaigners claim.

A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies calls for urgent action to avert the threat.

The Working Group on Climate Change and Development says industrialised countries must cut carbon emissions massively by mid-century.

Two groups -the New Economics Foundation(NEF) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)- organised the report.

The report calls for cutting global emissions by least 80% by 2050, and for richer countries to "lead by example and champion renewable energy", according to the BBC.

The report was authored by one Andrew Simms of the NEF - its available over here.

First off , let's find out more about Mr Simms.

From the NEF website:

Andrew Simms is nef's Policy Director and head of the Climate Change programme at nef's Centre for Global Interdependence.

Andrew is a board member of Greenpeace UK and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Europe. Previously, he led campaigns for Christian Aid for four years and was one of the original campaigners for the Jubilee 2000 Coalition debt campaign. He has worked for a variety of development and environmental organisations, including the International Red Cross, Oxfam, the World Development Movement, and the International Institute for Environment and Development, and was national youth speaker for the Green Party and an advisor to Michael Meacher as shadow Overseas Development Minister.

Green Party, Michael Meacher, Greenpeace. He must be a leftist so.
Also note the lack of any scientific credentials whatsoever in his bio.

Whilst you have that meme planted in your head, may I point you in the direction of this report, written by a fully qualified scientist who has actually done field research in terms of ice cores drilled from glaciers.

Hmmm... political campaigner non-scientist versus a highly qualified scientist. Who do you think should have more authority on the matter?

Anyway, I disgress. Let's look into the funding of the IIED and the NEF to better asertain where they are coming from.

First off the bat , it's the IIED, and yup -it's a hornets nest of taxpayer funded largesse, with the odd Tranzi organisation thrown into the mix:


£2 million from the UK Department of International Development, £700k from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 200K from the EU Commission, and over 100k from the United Nations.

Looks like we're heading into the usual gravy train self-serving feedback loop:

1. Government funds NGO
2. NGO does a report
3. Government "does something"
4. Go back to step 1

Here's an overall summary of the IIEDs funding:


Virtually all of their funding is courtesy of the taxpayer.

The New Economics Foundation is a trickier one to pin down , as their funding statement in their accounts doesn't mention the sources of funding:



So you have to dig around



So that's funding from the EU, via SEEDA.



So that's funding from the council tax payer.



So that's more funding from the EU, this time via another UK regional authority , EMDA



More funding , from the Manchester council tax payer.


Yet more EU funding from another regional authority - the London Development Agency.


Even more funding , via the EU, courtesy of EMDA.


Yet more funding from the EU


EU funding, this time courtesy of SEEDA and EMDA.You can see what's going on here - it's the EU paying lobbyists to lobby itself.



UK taxpayer funding - courtesy of DEFRA

At this stage I'm starting to wonder why aren't our universities being used for research purposes. What makes the NEF so special that it's getting all this funding?

The NEF are "climate change" to the core:


And they have a rather socialistic sounding "New Global Economy" team, which
"aims to challenge the current paradigm of global development" and offers such bollocks as a "people-and-planet-focused approach to development at the country level".

In laymans terms - it's anti-capitalist.



So we have a leftist, anti-capitalist organisation producing a "climate change" report by someone who has no scientific credentials whatsoever , which is then lapped up and publicised by the BBC.

Nice.

And it gets better:


"challenging global economic growth as a means of poverty reduction".

wooah. We're getting into serious moonbat Marxian territory here.

They are also networking a heck of a lot:


And this anti-capitalist organisation has been tasked with the "Well Being" of the UK population and the EU in general:


You couldn't make it up.

And eerily, it mentions that it's going to "develop pilot tool-kits for assessing well-being impacts at an individual level (eg evaluating interventions)".

Well being interventions...

Why hello Mr Stasi policeman. Here are my papers.


Sources:
IIED accounts
NEF accounts