{"id":705352,"date":"2026-07-22T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:20:10","slug":"esg-round-up-new-uk-pm-raids-climate-finance-budget-to-fund-bus-fare-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705352\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG round-up: New UK PM raids climate finance budget to fund bus fare cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/admin-ajax.jpeg\"   alt=\"illustration of red and white globe\" title=\"RI ESG Round Up\"\/>            <\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is set to lose grant funding for climate finance projects to help fund a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cheaper-travel-for-millions-with-a-third-off-fares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">cap on bus fares<\/a> in the country under plans announced by new prime minister Andy Burnham. The move will see \u00a3454 million ($607 million; \u20ac532 million) in funding originally earmarked for international climate finance converted into loans for the projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is set to lose grant funding for climate finance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48713,556,59,57,58,1912,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-climate-adaptation","tag-climate-change","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-net-zero","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}