The document discusses climate change, foreign aid, and environmental issues. It provides background on a speaker and their expertise. It then examines Canada's foreign aid spending, the relationship between foreign aid and the environment, the top 10 emitting countries, and rivers with high plastic pollution. It argues that foreign aid lacks oversight, countries need reliable clean energy and to address waste management, water access, and other environmental problems to receive funding and support from international groups.

1. ClimateChange and
ForeignAid
PaulYoung CPA CGA
October 2, 2019

2. PaulYoung - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – EmergingTechnology
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Business Process Change
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Agenda
 Foreign Aid – Canada
 Foreign Aid and the Environment
 EnvironmentalCommitment
 Top 10 Emission countries
 Top Rivers for Plastic Pollution

4. Clean
Tech/Environme
ntal
Commitment
Source - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/funding-for-climate-change-
chogm-1.3339907
• Any government should be reviewing all funding including performance audits
• Liberals increase the funding by 200% while running $14-18B deficits.The Liberals are using the funding to buy
votes
• Many of the countries on that list have enormous issues with waste management -
http://www.atchuup.com/countries-used-as-dumping-grounds-of-worlds-trash/
• Only South Africa has its own carbon tax systems in Africa -
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/02/climate/pricing-carbon-emissions.html
• Many African countries have issues with power generation - https://www.statista.com/statistics/503727/retail-
electricity-prices-in-africa-by-select-country/ or https://qz.com/africa/1435910/blackouts-in-africa-affect-the-
poor-more-than-the-rich/
• Corruption inAfrica is a big issue -
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/citizens_speak_out_about_corruption_in_africa
• Better urban planning is also an issue - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/putting-africa-s-secondary-
cities-first/

5. Canada and
ForeignAid by
year
Source - http://cidpnsi.ca/canadas-foreign-aid-2012-2/

6. ForeignAid
and the
Environment
Source - https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/ and http://cidpnsi.ca/canadas-
foreign-aid-2012-2/

7. Top 10
Emission
Countries
Source - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/chart-of-
the-day-these-countries-create-most-of-the-world-s-co2-
emissions/
• OnlyAfrican country in
the top 15 for emissions is
South Africa
• African countries suffer
with poorly constructed
water systems and other
environmental issues
• UN has been helping
these countries for
decades -
https://www.thesun.co.uk
/news/8319206/foreign-
aid-source-of-corruption/

8. Plastic /
Waterways
Source - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-
plastic-in-the-oceans/ or https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-
just-10-rivers/ or https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368
• More needs to be done to stop waste flowing into waterways -
https://www.oceanicsociety.org/blog/1720/7-ways-to-reduce-ocean-plastic-
pollution-today
• WTO ,World Bank and other groups need to force countries to clean up their
environmental issues as part of their membership and/or loans/funding.

9. Summary
 Foreign aid has lack oversight for years
 All countries need to look at reliable clean sources that can handle
bulk loads (i.e. nuclear, molten salt, LNG, etc)
 Liberals grew foreign aid not because Canada could afford it, but
because Liberals wanted seats on the UN. Next govt has every
right to review all funding to ensure it is meeting targets.
 China continues to build transportation systems in Africa -
https://www.itdp.org/2019/07/26/in-2018-chinas-transit-boom-
subsides/
 All countries need to address issues like forest, land and water
management -