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  • 23 Apr 2009
    The budget, climate and faith

    The campaigns director of Operation Noah starts a new series of reflective pieces for Ekklesia in the run-up to the Copenhagen Summit in December '09.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Between the budget and a green place

    There are positive features to the 2009 UK budget, says Ann Pettifor. But many of them look meagre compared to the scale of the problems and the missing Green New Deal.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Oxfam rues missed opportunity on UK poverty amid budget gains

    The global development and aid agency Oxfam says that today's budget is a step forward on climate change, good news on the government's aid promises, but a missed opportunity as far as tackling UK poverty is concerned.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Government castigated by War on Want over tax havens

    The anti-poverty charity War on Want says that the 2009 UK budget has failed to provide a breakthrough on tax avoidance and tax havens, which cost Britain billions and contribute toward impoverishment across the world.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Analysing the UK Budget '09

    Britain's first 'carbon budget' is possibly the most keenly followed one in modern history, given the global financial crisis and a massive borrowing requirement.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    UK aid commitments on track despite £155 million 'savings'

    Progressio today welcomed the UK government’s promise to meet existing aid commitments to the world’s poorest people in 2010-11, though it expressed concern at “efficiency savings” totalling some £155 million.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Scrap nukes to boost budget, say Scottish peace groups

    Campaigners from Scotland have been proposing to UK chancellor Alistair Darling an alternative budget which does not include spending on nuclear weapons - arguing that that there are massive savings to be made.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    Methodists welcome budget support for jobless under-25s

    The Methodist Church in Britain has welcomed the Chancellor’s budget commitment today to provide work or training for under 25s who have been jobless for more than a year. It has also welcomed green pledges.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    WDM analyses green and Brown shoots in UK budget

    Chancellor Alistair Darling's budget reveals the UK government's contradictory green credentials, according to the World Development Movement - which campaigns for global justice and action on the way climate change is hitting the world's poor.

  • 22 Apr 2009
    First ever carbon budget 'a disappointment', says Christian Aid

    The government’s first ever UK carbon budget reveals a disappointing lack of ambition and leadership, says British-based international development agency Christian Aid. But it welcomes Gordon Brown’s decision to protect the aid budget.