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Campaigns successes: A big thank you for everything in 2011

In a year of economic uncertainty and social change in the UK, CAFOD campaigners stood tall, calling for decision makers and those in power to fight injustice. Here are some of the highlights we enjoyed together.

Key Government minister comes to CAFOD for climate debate

Thursday 1 December saw Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change visit CAFOD’s headquarters in London. Prior to heading off to Durban, South Africa for the UN’s climate talks, Stop Climate Chaos invited Mr Huhne to take part in an online debate on Thursday evening at Romero House.

Durban COP17: Crunch time for climate talks?

The upcoming United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa will be dominated by a question hanging over the future of the Kyoto Protocol (KP) which expires at the end of next year.

Get the latest on the talks from CAFOD’s team on the ground>>

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.

CAFOD at key Cancun climate change talks

Monday 29 November sees the start of a fortnight of United Nations Climate Change Conference talks in Cancun, Mexico. The talks – attended by CAFOD – represent the sixteenth annual meeting of the Conferences of Parties (COP). The Conferences of Parties represent countries across the globe and non-governmental organisations that first convened at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.