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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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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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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