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Climate finance: You asked, the EU listened
In the run up to the international climate change talks in Cancun last year, you took action to demand more information for the world’s poorest. You called on UK Chancellor George Osborne to push the EU to open up about the money pledged to help poor countries cope with climate change. Thanks to your efforts, the EU opened up with a new annual report, the ‘Fast Start Finance Report’. During the Cancun talks, they published the first of these reports, which gave extra details about the €2.2 billion the EU mobilised to combat climate change throughout 2010.
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Act on Poverty: Prime Minister thanks CAFOD supporters
After last year’s general election, CAFOD supporters called on the new UK government to Act on Poverty, demanding action on aid, climate change and making business work for the poor. Now David Cameron has replied.
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TAGS: 165.Aid, 267.Campaigning news, 175.Climate change and environment, 263.News, 172.Poverty and wealth
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G20 Seoul Summit: easy wins missed
The Korean Government have put development on the agenda at this week’s G20 summit in Seoul. But as rich countries let their own trade interests dominate the debate, poorer countries risk being squeezed out of the picture.
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Big Climate Connection: A big thank you
MPs throughout the country faced lobbying from countless groups of CAFOD supporters on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 November. As part of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, our campaigners took to their constituencies to ask for a strong Green Energy Bill this autumn and for a fair international climate deal in December’s international talks in Cancun, Mexico.
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Thinking big, acting small at the G20
The G20 countries meet this week in Seoul, South Korea. CAFOD welcomes the group's commitment to discussion on the adoption of a “development agenda” at this summit and calls on the G20 to "think big and act small" through sustainable economic development that puts small famers and small- and micro-businesses at its heart.
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Big Climate Connection: it’s time to get connected!
This Friday and Saturday, CAFOD campaigners from across England and Wales will join with supporters from over 100 different environmental and development organisations in the name of climate change.
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Unearth Justice campaign: tough action on pollution
Mining is often a cause of conflict, environmental destruction and toxic pollution. Since 2006, you have been calling on companies and governments to end this injustice, and give poor communities a greater say in whether mining is allowed, how it operates, and who benefits, as part of our Unearth Justice campaign. Find out how our actions are seeing results.
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Goldcorp staff face criminal charges over mine pollution after CAFOD investigation
Authorities in Honduras last week filed criminal charges against senior officials of Entremares based on evidence from aid agency CAFOD of severe water contamination.
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Climate change: facing the challenge
Climate change is a reality and it’s affecting our work worldwide. Here, two CAFOD staff reflect on how the communities they work with are coping with extreme weather.
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Haiti: How the debt was dropped
In response to Haiti's devastating earthquake, hundreds of you added your voices to an international outcry calling for the country’s debt to be cancelled. Your voices have now been heard.
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