m fund: He will separately announce a 220m fund to tackle the erosion of biodiversity, focusing on desperately endangered species such as the black rhino and Sumatran tiger, according to The Guardian. Downing Street hopes Johnson's environment speech will be the highlight of a trip that islikely to be dominated by questions about Brexit, but the plans prompted a withering response from Greenpeace, which said it amounted to a flop in terms of world leadership on the issue and fell well short of the vision required. While at the UN general assembly, the prime minister will use a speech to announce 1bn in aid money for UK inventors to seek funding for high-tech initiatives connected to areas such as renewable energy and lower levels of pollutants. The World Wildlife Fund WWF charity, which will be hosting the UN event at which Johnson will announce the biodiversity fund, praised the plan but warned that focusing only on technological solutions for the climate emergency would not be sufficient. Biodiversity crisis is about to put humanity at risk, UN scientists to warn Read more Coming from the aid budget, the fund is named after Hertha Ayrton, a pioneering Victorian-era physicist and engineer, who was also a passionate suffragette and whose daughter, Barbara Ayrton-Gould, was a Labour MP at the time of the Attlee government. The 1bn innovation fund is billed as seeking the latest cutting-edge tech in areas such as sustainable electricity supplies for developing countries, improved battery technology and ways for heavily polluting industries such as steel and cement to reduce emissions.
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