The UK is giving £75m ($133m) to Bangladesh to help it prepare for the impacts of climate change, the government has announced.
The money will go on measures such as protecting houses, schools and farms against flooding, and introducing new crop strains.
Aid agencies have welcomed the move but say poorer countries will need much more money to adapt to climate change.
UN resources for climate adaptation are badly under-funded, they say.
"This is very welcome news," said John Magrath, programme researcher on climate change with Oxfam.
"But more money will be needed to combat impacts of climate change - that's indisputable - and it should be new money, because it should be compensation for changes we've caused through our industrialisation," he told BBC News.
Indisputable, is it? John, just fuck off, OK? And give us our £75 million back. I'm sure we've got something better we can do with the fucking money.
AaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGHH!!!!!!!
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Oh come on. Be reasonable. I can't understand how you could begrudge Bangladesh millions to boost their flood defences. It's not as though we need that sort of work performed here after all.
Oh.
Shit.
Exactly.
They still haven't sorted out the effects of the floods in England last year - let alone taken steps to prevent the same thing happening again.
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