The United Kingdom is a contracting party to the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO). As such, HM Government is fully engaged with other contracting parties, Canada included, to help conserve wild North Atlantic salmon stocks. Drought was not discussed explicitly at the 2022 NASCO meeting. In 2023 NASCO will be running a special session on the impacts of climate change on North Atlantic salmon.

Zimbabwe is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the severe impacts of climate change and extreme weather. Despite a good harvest in 2021, 2.9 million people in rural and urban areas were classified as food insecure from October 2021 to April 2022. The 2022 harvest, particularly of maize, will likely be substantially lower than in 2021. The Zimbabwean Government statistics project 3.8 million people will fall into cereal food insecurity at the peak of the lean season in early 2023.

Since 2019 the UK has committed £50.4 million through the Zimbabwe Humanitarian and Resilience Programme (ZHARP), managed by the UN World Food Programme, to provide food aid and cash transfers to the poorest and most vulnerable Zimbabweans. In 2020, 413,000 extremely vulnerable people received food assistance in rural areas. From late 2021 onwards UK humanitarian assistance has focused on urban vulnerability with 10,125 people currently receiving monthly cash-based transfers. The UK is also helping reduce overall food insecurity and reliance on food aid by supporting resilience building programmes promoting climate-smart agriculture, solar irrigation, increased productivity for small farmers, better nutrition and dietary diversity.

Due to a combination of drought, economic challenges and the impact of Cyclone Idai, Zimbabwe is facing a humanitarian crisis. Without support, more than 5.5 million people will not have access to the food they need by March 2020. In response, on 9 August 2019, the Secretary of State for International Development announced a new £49million Humanitarian and Resilience Programme that will build on current DFID interventions in livelihoods, food security, resilience, and rural water supply by helping communities and institutions cope with climate change, the macroeconomic context, and other shocks and stresses

This programme is in line with the Global Goals of reducing poverty, achieving food security, ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and tackling climate change and its impacts.

No UK aid is given directly to the Government of Zimbabwe; all support is channelled through trusted aid partners.