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A government that signs up starts by using its own money and existing aid.
He accused the government of "playing accounting games" by using existing aid funding for its $1bn climate financing promise.
He dubbed the growing practice by countries to recycle existing aid commitments as "new" finance as "aidwash".
ActionAid [recommends] at least £70m over the next three years to be taken from the existing aid budget".
A Dfid spokesman confirmed that the £60m Britain would pay into the fund was from existing aid budgets.
Anothe concern is that meeting the target so far has involved the reclassification of some existing aid flows.
Britain and Holland have argued strongly that it be largely additional, but Germany, France and most small member states have said they want existing aid to be used.
The new money for the common humanitarian fund, which is run by UN agencies, will come from the UK's existing aid budget.
Elise Ford, the head of Oxfam International's EU office said it would be "scandalous" to divert money from existing aid budgets.
the Australian Conservation Foundation said the contribution was welcome, but the money should be in addition to the existing aid budget.
They estimated the amount of revenue each country could generate through income tax and used existing aid flows to determine the funds available for implementing social sector programmes.
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