FAB Campaign

To ensure the global deal on climate change is fair, ambitious and legally binding, Tearfund believes it must include the following commitments:

• developed countries must agree to reduce their emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2020 (from 1990 levels). The vast majority of these cuts must be made in the country where they were emitted rather than by offsetting. Developed countries must also commit to reduce emissions by at least 95 per cent of 1990 levels by 2050.
• developed countries must commit to provide at least US$2,000 billion a year of climate finance for poor countries. This must be new and additional to Official Development Assistance commitments of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and to finance provided by carbon markets. This finance is necessary to help poor and vulnerable communities adapt to the changing climate and to help support action to reduce emissions in developing countries.

Developing countries bear the brunt of a changing climate. Rich countries are most responsible for climate change and they have the capacity and resources to act so they must take action
to combat climate change and help poor countries to adapt. 

You can find out more about these asks in Tearfund's latest policy papers:

The first cut is the deepest? Reducing global emissions

What the world is waiting for: action on adaptation

Fair, ambitious, binding: an overview of what Tearfund, as part of the Climate Action Network (an international network of NGOs), is calling for.