British taxpayers to pay £1 billion a year to help poor countries fight global warming in new deal backed by Brown

Daily Mail
"British taxpayers will have to fork out at least £1 billion a year to help poor countries cope with global warming, under an international deal being backed by Gordon Brown.The cash – raised from a slew of new taxes and higher fuel bills – will also help developing countries in Asia, South America and Africa build wind farms and solar power plants. ....Environmental sceptic and statistician Bjorn Lomborg, of Copenhagen University questioned whether voters would be prepared to spend billions of pounds on tackling global warming in the developing world.'Giving money to people who are incredibly poor is probably a good idea – but should we be targeting it at schemes to tackle global warming when it could be used to tackle disease and poverty?' he said.
'When you ask people in the developing world what their biggest problems are, global warming is a long way down the list.'