From Credit Crunch to Climate Crunch
London People & Planet and Platform activists paid a visit to one of RBS's recruitment fairs today, with jobless bankers and homeless polar bears highlighting the risks of a future climate crunch...
View ArticleProtect the poorest
The world’s poorest and most vulnerable are already suffering the impacts of climate change. They are being hit first and worst because we, and other rich countries, created this mess and are making it...
View Article'Make the link' with Practical Action
Practical Action are trying to encourage world leaders to make the link between climate change and poverty. They have an action on their site enabling you to contact Gordon Brown to persuade him to...
View ArticleBBC makes series of climate chaos films
The BBC have made a series of films as part of their climate chaos season on BBC Four. You can watch them on the BBC site. Climate change is one of their hot topics.
View ArticleWI produce climate change film called A World Without Jam
Coalition member, the Women's Institute have produced a two part film on climate change called A World Without Jam.We love it, please go and check it out!
View ArticleLetter to Brown asks for change at G20 summit
As Gordon Brown prepares for the G20 summit in Washington DCthis weekend, a coalition of 24 of the most influential trade unions, development charities, environmental groups and religious leaders wrote...
View ArticleDesmond Tutu on climate change for WDM
WDM have produced this great new video with Desmond Tutu talking about Climate Justice. Either watch it below, or view it on YouTube. read more
View ArticleNew "Calendar of Climate Change"
Our friends at Flipside Vision have produced a new Calendar of Climate Change for 2009. This calendar provides two poignant images underlining the impact of climate change every month.It also...
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Cash needed to avert climate disasters
Last year the EU, one of the worst polluters, acknowledged that rich nations would have to cut emissions first and fastest and help poorer nations to adapt to the changing environment - that's a...
View ArticleTar sands speaker event
As part of People & Planet's Ditch Dirty Development campaign, they are hosting a tar sands speaker event at Room V111, Vernon Campus, SOAS on 25th February from 7pm till 9pm.read more
View ArticleThe Age of Stupid
Climate change film The Age of Stupid was released at ‘People’s Premieres’ in 80 cinemas around the country with a gaggle of stars in Leicester Square.Now it's the all important opening weekend (20th -...
View ArticleRSPB says we must make space for nature as climate change grips Northern Ireland
The RSPB has today warned the Assembly that unless urgent action is taken to help Northern Ireland's wildlife adapt to a changing climate, many of our natural treasures could be lost forever.
View ArticleCAFOD: Climate change is an issue of justice
CAFOD's climate change campaign launched on March 12th. The campaign focuses on climate justice, calling for a fair deal at the UN talks in Copenhagen this December, which puts poor people at its...
View ArticleDeliver on our promises, and protect the poorest (our policy)
The disappointment of Copenhagen showed that words and exhortations are not enough to make a fair, ambitious and binding global deal happen. Developed countries like the UK need to live up to their...
View ArticleAfrican leaders ask Brown to put people first at the G20 Summit
The buzz around the G20 has well and truly begun. Well kind of. Unfortunately, it's not yet getting quite as much press coverage as the football results. But here in our office, people are talking...
View ArticleCarteret Islands sunk by climate change
For most people in the UK, climate change feels like something that will happen at some undefined point in the future - to our children and grandchildren's generation. For the people of the Carteret...
View ArticleG20 outcome – 'a bitter pill for the world’s poor' says banned World...
he G20 outcome is ‘a bitter pill to swallow’ for the world’s poorest people says the World Development Movement, the anti-poverty group that was banned at last minute from attending the G20 summit. The...
View ArticleInternational photo contest highlights effects of climate change and...
NEW YORK, USA, 9 April 2009 – The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCDD) has issued a call for photographers to participate in the Second UNCCD International Photo Contest – part...
View ArticleClimate Change Rally in Doncaster
A wide coalition of schools, churches, community and environmental groups are planning a mass rally on climate change on Saturday July 11th in Doncaster. During the event, there will be the opportunity...
View ArticleBrown climate speech - Greenpeace responds
Commenting on today's climate change speech by Gordon Brown, Greenpeace Chief Scientist Dr Doug Parr said: read more
View ArticleBrown sets out his climate stall for Copenhagen
It's been a long time since there were polar bears at London Zoo, but the famous attraction still houses many other species which are threatened by the effects of climate change. So I can't help but...
View ArticleDoncaster rallies Miliband in Climate Justice - Climate Care
Doncaster played host to a successful Climate Change Rally last Saturday (11th July), organised by members of the coalition including CAFOD, Tearfund, Christian Aid, Operation Noah and Doncaster...
View ArticleClimate change and hunger
Today, as part of Blog Action Day, thousands of people are blogging about climate change. For Concern Worldwide’s entry, I’ve decided to write about how climate change is affecting world hunger.
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Climate Justice Now speaker tour
16–22 November 2009 Speakers include: Md Shamsuddoha (Equity Bangladesh)Eriel Deranger (Indigenous Environmental Network)Beatriz Souviron (Bolivian Ambassador to the UK)The climate crisis has been...
View ArticleMore than 100 MPs sign climate change EDM
More than 100 MPs have so far signed an early day motion calling on the UK government to urge the EU to take a stronger stand in tackling climate change.With less than a month to go to the crucial UN...
View ArticleCarbon in exile - Siberia melts away
Nasta Vanuyto, a young Nenet girl who lives on the Yamal peninsula. If you live in a developed country, you're pretty well insulated from climate change. Shifts in weather patterns, heavier rainfall,...
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Speak Out for Climate Justice
Thanks to all those who came to Manchester on Saturday 1st October - the hottest October day on record - to speak out for climate justice ahead of the Conservative Party Conference.read more
View ArticleSCCS briefing on climate justice
28th February 2012The Scottish Parliament will debate the the issue of climate justice later this week (Thursday 1st March). Stop Climate Chaos Scotland produced a parliamentary briefing about this in...
View ArticleScottish Climate Justice Fund shows the way forward
Thursday 31st May 2012The announcement today of the Scottish Government's Climate Justice Fund was welcomed by the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition.The new fund to help people living in some of...
View ArticleCase studies on ‘climate adaptation’ projects overseas
Friday 1st June 2012For many of the world’s poorest people, from Malawi to Bangladesh, Niger to Haiti, the impacts of climate change already mean the difference between life and death. For people...
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