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Rachel Kyte to keep role at charity whose founders invest in fossil fuels

by admineconai September 29, 2024
written by admineconai September 29, 2024
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Rachel Kyte, the UK’s new climate envoy is expected to retain her role on the board of a charity whose founders made a multimillion-pound donation to the Labour party and have investments in fossil fuels.

Kyte- the former World Bank climate chief, who was announced as the UK’s special representative on climate this week, is on the climate advisory board of Quadrature Climate Foundation, a charity set up by the founders of the Quadrature Capital investment company.

Quadrature Capital made a donation of £4m to the Labour party in May, and last year had investments in fossil fuels among its portfolio. Joy Morrissey, the shadow energy minister, this week wrote to the government asking whether the donation had played a part in the appointment and whether it had been considered a potential conflict of interest when making the appointment.

After controversy surrounded her appointment, some senior figures in the UK and global green movements rallied to Kyte, who is widely respected around the world for her decades of work on climate and development issues.

Kyte will retain her role on the charity board, the Guardian has learned, which operates independently of the investment company. She had no role in Quadrature Capital’s investments or decisions on political donations.

She will also retain her post as professor of practice in climate policy at the Blavatnik school of government at Oxford University. She may keep a small number of other external engagements.

Christiana Figueres, a co-founder of the Global Optimism thinktank and a former UN climate chief who oversaw the Paris agreement in 2015, said: “David Lammy [the foreign secretary] could not have chosen a more well-equipped person to help the UK government in their new commitments to mobilising climate finance, which has been the bane of climate negotiations for years, if not decades. She has devoted most of her life to the challenge of facilitating universal access to clean energy and will bring that experience to an exceedingly difficult mandate she has received.”

Laurence Tubiana, the French former diplomat who helped negotiate the Paris agreement and now leads the European Climate Foundation, which has also received funding from the Quadrature Climate Foundation, said that Rachel Kyte “is supremely well qualified to be a UK climate envoy,”.

“She is a warrior on the global climate pitch, and David Lammy is lucky to be able to call on her. Her high-level expertise, especially on climate finance, would be valuable for the UK and the global climate community, especially in light of [the forthcoming climate summit] Cop29.” Tubiana said.

Kyte’s role as special representative on climate at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), answering to Lammy and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, will be a paid position requiring engagement in high-level global diplomacy, forging alliances with developed and developing countries to tackle the climate crisis.

Story was adapted from the Guardian.

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