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  • 5 Feb 2007
    Governments warned that global warming will hit poorest hard

    The UK-based international development agency Christian Aid has warned governments world-wide, and especially the British government, that poor countries will be hit worst global warming and will struggle to adapt to the impact of climate change.

  • 4 Feb 2007
    Christian Aid urges Blair to respond to climate change report

    Scientists' grim predictions of an even worse rate of global warming means the world must act immediately to help poor people cope with the now inevitable ravages of climate change, says international development agency Chrsitian Aid.

  • 2 Feb 2007
    WCC welcomes major United Nations climate change report

    The World Council of Churches (WCC) programme on climate change and water has welcomed a high-profile report released today by the United Nations climate panel. The WCC brings together mainline Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and indigenous churches across the world, working closely with Roman Catholics and in exchange with Evangelicals and Pentecostals.

  • 24 Jan 2007
    Appeal to join historic climate march

    Christian Aid is looking for volunteers to join the longest ever protest march in UK history.

  • 18 Jan 2007
    Five minutes away from Doomsday

    The scientists who mind the Doomsday Clock yesterday moved it two minutes closer to midnight, which symbolizes the annihilation of civilization, adding the perils of global warming for the first time to acute nuclear threats.

  • 15 Dec 2006
    Christian Aid and Independent on Sunday team up for climate change appeal

    The leading international development agency Christian Aid (which works with people irrespective of creed or background) has teamed up with the Independent on Sunday newspaper in the UK to launch a Christmas appeal for funds to combat the impact of climate change on poor communities

  • 14 Dec 2006
    Operation Noah appoints front rank campaigner to push climate change action

    Operation Noah, the churches' campaign to avert catastrophic climate change, has appointed Ann Pettifor, one of the architects of the widely-praised Jubilee 2000 anti-debt initiative, as its new Campaign Director.

  • 7 Dec 2006
    Christian Aid challenge Gordon Brown on climate change

    British-based international development agency Christian Aid called for much more radical action to tackle climate change, following UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-budget report yesterday - which raised ‘green' taxes on motor and air travel and offered incentives for greener homes.

  • 3 Nov 2006
    Bishops and 'Rock Gods' united by climate chaos

    The countdown to the 'I Count' climate change rally has begun and organisers claim it could be the ëcoolestí event this year.

  • 19 Oct 2006
    Christians to urge government to face up to climate change crisis

    Christians of all denominations will be among the thousands expected to march in London on Saturday 4 November on the eve of critical international climate change talks in Nairobi.