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International debt relief has brought benefits to millions of poor people, but we still need to pray for more debt cancellation.16 May 1998. Birmingham city centre. As 70,000 people formed a human chain to protest against the gross injustice of int... |
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Give thanks that the Government has agreed on one of our key demands and pray for the two amendments still needed to the Bill.
As a result of your campaigning we have achieved our first significant victory on the campaign for a strong Climate Chang... |
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Today the European Commission announced new legislation on climate change and energy as part of its long term strategy for avoiding dangerous climate change.
The new package confirms a 20 per cent reduction target on 1990 levels for emissions cuts ... |
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As the January 1st deadline for concluding negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) arrives, Tearfund is extremely dissapointed at the extent of the anti-development content in the agreements that have been signed. |
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Recent announcements by the Chancellor look to be keeping the UK government on track to meet their overseas aid targets. The aid budget will rise to £7.9 billion a year by 2010-11, on course to meet the commitment of giving 0.7% of GDP by 2013.
The... |
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With just weeks to go until the deadline for negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements to be concluded, some countries have already initialled agreements, while others are holding out despite intense pressure to conclude them by the December 31st deadline. |
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Tearfund is disappointed by the announcement in the Queens Speech that the Climate Change Bill will only propose targets of ‘at least 60 per cent’ carbon dioxide emissions cuts by 2050. The latest science tells us that in order for the UK to play its... |
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Tearfund supporter Anita Payne joined polar bears and supporters of I Count, the campaign of Stop Climate Chaos, to visit Downing Street on 29 October 2007. Together, they handed in 150,000 petition cards. More than 6,000 had been signed by Tearfun... |
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Despite substantial natural resources, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is one of the poorest nations in the world, currently ranked 130 out of 173 on the Human Development Index.
Decades of oppression, human rights abuses, economic stagnation and isol... |
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President Bush's Major Economies climate change summit on 26-27th September made no progress towards achieving an international agreement on cutting emissions and distracted from ongoing UN talks.
The meeting attended by the UN and senior represent... |
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Hundreds of organisations across the world have joined together to mark Stop EPAs Day (September 27) and call for trade agreements that work for the needs of the poorest.
In the UK, 17 Christian leaders, including Tearfund president Dr Elaine Stork... |
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On 24th September world leaders met in New York for a high-level UN summit on climate change, convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
Participants agreed that a comprehensive global climate change deal must be negotiated within the UN Framewor... |
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Tearfund broadly welcomes the conclusions of the Conservative Party’s Quality of Life Policy Group report that covers environment, energy, waste and transport.The report recommends cuts in carbon emissions of at least 80 per cent by 2050 and includes... |
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Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living is a groundbreaking new book looking at a Christian response to climate change.
Focusing on sustainable consumption and production and supported by Tearfund, the Jubilee Centre and World Vision am... |
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Negotiation on trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and some of the world's poorest countries are at a critical stage, as the EU tries to get the agreements signed before the end of the year.
The EU promised that any new trade deal would... |
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Talks between the US, EU, India and Brazil - the G4 - broke down on June 21st after failure to agree on cuts to tariffs and subsidies. This is the latest ‘collapse’ in a series of breakdowns and re-starts since the current round of WTO talks was kick... |
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On Wednesday 28 June, Gordon Brown collected the keys to 10 Downing Street and became the 52nd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In January 2005, during a trip to Tanzania, Gordon Brown talked about how his upbringing has influenced his interest... |
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Tearfund has given this year's G8 summit a 5 out of 10 - particularly on Africa. This is tragically close to failure. Here is our response to the summit's communiqué on development.Andy Atkins, Tearfund's advocacy director, says, 'These unfulfilled G... |
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Tearfund says important steps to halt climate change were made at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, following 24 hours of negotiations and months of behind-the-scenes bargaining.
But we are disappointed at the failure of all G8 countries to ag... |
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The latest study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts devastating impacts for the world’s poorest communities. The report by 2,500 of the world’s top climate scientists paints a bleak picture of drought, disease, floods, s... |
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Tearfund was disappointed by the Channel 4 documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle. The programme gave a platform to a small number of global warming sceptics to present views that are not representative of the world's scientific community.
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Tearfund, as part of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, welcomes the publication of a draft Climate Change Bill. It is a significant step forward for the UK, which could become the first country to develop a legal framework for managing carbon emissio... |
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The UK is the first country to introduce a law to cut carbon emissions, but there’s a real danger that the law won’t be tough enough to get our emissions under control. Tearfund is campaigning for a tougher Bill, along with other members of the Sto... |
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Tearfund has released a new report entitled ‘Much to Lose, Little to Gain’. It looks at the potential impact of EPAs on Malawi's economy.
Researched in conjunction with the Malawian Economic Justice Network - this report gives a practical insight ... |
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Another eventful campaigning year, as progress in some areas was tempered by frustration in others. Remind yourself of the key moments that defined campaigning in 2006. |
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Debt relief money being put to good use
Zambia is proof that campaigning really does work. Saving made from debt cancellation means that this year Zambia will have 4500 new teachers, be able to build new schools and increase healthcare funding, espe... |
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