UK aid and research double accounting hits SDG projects

<p dir="ltr">The peril of double counting research and aid budgets is demonstrated by an almost 50% cut to the 2021–22 allocations to the United Kingdom’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). Major projects on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must renegotiate funding or be cancelled; recent awards will be stopped before they’ve begun. The decision undermines the nation’s reputation and the objectives of aid and research.</p>