Oversight of Climate Change Spending is a Mess, Watchdog Reports

[Jackson]

EXCLUSIVE: State Department oversight of climate change spending abroad is a mess, watchdog reports

Inadequate oversight, lax bookkeeping, sloppy paperwork, haphazard performance agreements and missing financial documentation have plagued U.S. State Department spending of tens of millions of dollars to combat climate change, according to a report by State’s internal financial watchdog — and the problem could be much, much bigger than that.

1. OIG looked at seven of 19 program grants totaling $34 million, and discovered they contained no specific plans for monitoring the results

2. So-called grant oversight officers whose responsibilities included developing the monitoring plans, also failed to provide written reviews of compliance with State Department reporting standards, along with a variety of other financial procedures

3. Oversight officers apparently didn’t do a lot of overseeing. The OIG discovered that actual visits to climate change sites were rare, and when they occurred, not much effort went into examining the actual paperwork involved

4. Requirements that grant recipients submit quarterly financial statements were apparently ignored, even though procedures called for cutoffs if the statements were not provided

5. The same cavalier attitude toward reporting apparently applied even when projects ended. As the report discreetly puts it, overseers “did not always obtain the final reports needed to ensure that final deliverables were achieved, funds were reconciled, and proper closeout of the project was completed.”

6. One reason for this, apparently, is that reporting requirements for detailed results toward specific indicators — along with general goals and objectives — were not included in any of the seven grants examined by OIG.

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This is how government works. Just the latest scandal. And it's out tax dollars!

 

[Oddball]

Hardly surprising. ...The anthropogenic Goebbels warming hoaxers are nothing without their crappy documentation, financial mismanagement and outright fraud.

 

[Old Rocks]

34 million dollars. My, my, such a huge amount. The cost of the present drought in the Mid-West has already exceeded 18 billion dollars. Then the is the yearly cost of the very large wildfires that are now bigger and more intense than we have experianced before.

But then, any real science is an anthema to you yokels.

 

[daveman]

The AGW cult is as good at accounting as it is at science.

 

[daveman]

34 million dollars. My, my, such a huge amount. The cost of the present drought in the Mid-West has already exceeded 18 billion dollars. Then the is the yearly cost of the very large wildfires that are now bigger and more intense than we have experianced before.

But then, any real science is an anthema to you yokels.

Yes, because there was NEVER any drought or wildfires before American SUVs were invented.

 

[FA_Q2]

34 million dollars. My, my, such a huge amount. The cost of the present drought in the Mid-West has already exceeded 18 billion dollars. Then the is the yearly cost of the very large wildfires that are now bigger and more intense than we have experianced before.

But then, any real science is an anthema to you yokels.

Of course. Just over 30 million. Nothing to see here folks. NOW, AGW, look at that. Lost to see their trust us….

Whatever. Every time there is overt corruption in the AGW crowd we are always told that it does not matter and is small change but we are supposed to take your word that AGW is not only cold hard fact but we need to make drastic changes to address it. Try again.