Healthy Harvests - the benefits of sustainable
agriculture in Africa and Asia
In this report, Christian Aid calls on donors and national governments to increase their support for sustainable small-holder farming to avert rising hunger and poverty caused by climate change.
The report documents how sustainable farming techniques have led to increased crop yields, incomes, food security, soil and water conservation, resilience to natural disasters and climate change, and community empowerment, and lower greenhouse gas emissions in Africa and South Asia.
Healthy Harvests report
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Energy for Our Common Future - civil society perspectives on the World Bank energy strategy review
Chistian Aid and Aprodev have supported civil society organisations from India, South Africa, Bolivia and Peru to develop responses to the World Bank energy strategy review.
The project brings together their position papers, stories and alternative approaches to World Bank Group business as usual.
Although each is a direct response to the energy strategy review from a national or regional perspective, each also takes a wide look at local energy futures.
Energy briefing summary
Energy briefing: Bolivia
Energy briefing: India
Energy briefing: Peru
Energy briefing: South Africa
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Climate Check: an analysis of the government's delivery of its low-carbon commitments (2011)
Co-authored by Christian Aid with Greenpeace, the Green Alliance, RSPB and WWF, this report is an assessment of the coalition's progress against the low-carbon commitments set out in its programme for government in May 2010.
The report assesses both the quality of the policies that underpin the government’s targets, and the timeliness of their delivery, finding that it is making moderate or no progess in 22 out of 29 .
Climate Check
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The Political Economy of Climate Finance (2010)
A report for Christian Aid by Lies Craeynest with input from Alison Doig.
The timeline for decision-making on climate finance up to 2013 is very tight. It can only met with renewed commitment to results all parties involved and a more open approach to all the finance options on the table.
This paper will analyse the political feasibility of delivering new sources of long term climate finance.
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Climate change and politics game - have go on this BBC game where you try and tackle climate change and remain popular with voters.
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Shifting of goal posts: rural electrification in India (2010)
In this report commissioned by Christian Aid India, the Vasudha Foundation presents a clear analysis of the lack of progress in rural electrification across India. The report highlights the failure the conventional national grid approach to deliver reliable electricity supplies to rural people in India and presents a viable alternative approach using decentralised renewable power.
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Capturing India’s Carbon: The UK’s role in delivering low-carbon technology to India (2009)
Our new report presents recommendations on how the CCS demonstrations in the UK and Europe can better support technology cooperation with India and other developing countries.
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Community answers to climate chaos: getting climate justice from the UNFCCC (2009)
Using examples of work taking place throughout the developing world, our report argues for a stronger role for civil society and community organisations in the global response to climate chaos, and the need for rich countries to foot the bill via a new funding body.
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Signposts to Copenhagen: Christian Aid briefings for the climate change negotiations (2009)
What must happen at Copenhagen in December 2009? How can we ensure the climate change agreement will benefit the poor and vulnerable and not just the wealthy and powerful?
This series of short briefing papers present what we believe are the top issues for COP 15 in Copenhagen.
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1: Essential outcomes for a fair and effective climate agreement
2: Climate finance: why, who for, how much and where from?
3: The role of carbon markets in countering climate change
4: Adapting to disasters? Global deal must deliver to save lives
5: Climate debt and the call for justice
6: Integrating adaptation from local to national level
7: Put forest communities at heart of UNFCCC policy
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Growing pains: the possibilities and problems of biofuels (2009)
Our report reveals how the current model of global biofuel production is threatening to worsen climate change and cause significant social and environmental problems - and proposes a new vision so they can be used to help end poverty.
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Setting the bar high at Poznan: Christian Aid's vision for urgent and equitable global action on climate change (2008)
This paper argues that negotiations at the 14th UNFCCC Conference of Parties must become more ambitious before they can provide a template for global action.
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Countdown to Copenhagen: the race for climate justice in the UNFCCC talks (2008)
In the run up to the crucial Kyoto II talks taking place in Copenhagen in 2009, this paper considers how a fair and comprehensive international agreement is essential if developing nations are to continue to fight poverty.
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Truly inconvenient: tackling climate change and poverty at once (2007)
This report warns that industrialised nations must pay billions of pounds to help poorer countries tackle global warming if millions of people around the world are not to be consigned to endless poverty.
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Human tide: the real migration crisis (2007)
The Christian Aid Week Report 2007 predicts that at least one billion people will be forced from their homes between now and 2050 as the effects of climate change deepen an already burgeoning global migration crisis.
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Coming clean: revealing the UK's true carbon footprint (2007)
This report uncovers an extraordinary picture of a UK that has a far greater impact on global carbon emissions than the 2% the government declares.
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All creation groaning (2007)
This paper examines a theological approach to climate change.
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The climate of poverty: facts, fears and hope (2006)
This report examines some of the effects of climate change on the world's poorest communities.
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