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Tearfund response to Obama statement

10 July 2009

‘We welcome The Major Economies Forum’s challenge to finance ministers to come back to the G20 negotiating table in September with finance proposals to support developing countries in their response to climate change.

`President Obama’s 11th hour announcement seems to be a glimmer of hope for climate finance, and the climate change agenda.

`Let’s hope that at last we are seeing rich countries delivering the bold and decisive leadership that is required to tackle what Obama quite rightly referred to as the defining challenge of our time.’

Paul Cook
Advocacy Director, Tearfund

 
Notes to editors 

For more information or an interview with Tearfund’s Director of Advocacy Paul Cook, contact Esther Williams in L’Aquila on +44 (0)7595 202 438

 

In L’Aquila: Senior Press Officer Esther Williams and Director of Advocacy Paul Cook.
London – Katie Harrison Head of Media and Corporate Communications 0208 943 7986 or 07949 181414

 

Tearfund is a Christian relief and development agency, working in partnership with churches around the world to tackle the causes and effects of poverty. www.tearfund.org

 

Tearfund is a member of the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, an 11 million-strong alliance of committed supporters, campaigners, hearts, minds and voices of more than 100 organisations, from faith groups and women’s groups to environmental and development organisations
 


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