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CAFOD response to final G20 communiqué

Following two days of discussions, the leaders of the world’s major economies have published their final ‘communiqué’. CAFOD's Lead Economics Analyst, Christina Weller responds.

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.

Press release: CAFOD warns Government as 1,000 day countdown begins

Catholic aid agency CAFOD will tell the Government and the United Nations on Good Friday that urgent action is required to agree a new global plan to tackle poverty. Good Friday marks exactly 1,000 days until the start of 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed a decade ago are due to expire.

Press release: Xstrata mine protests: Aid agency CAFOD welcomes release of Peruvian partners

Two CAFOD partners who had been detained by police whilst investigating human rights abuses near Anglo-Swiss mining company Xstrata‟s new Tintaya site in Peru have been released along with six others. Their arrest on unsubstantiated charges came following complaints of intimidation by local security forces.

Press release: UK must urge G20 to focus on long-term global poverty reduction rather than economic quick fixes, demands CAFOD

In the shadow of the Eurozone crisis and elections in Greece, the G20 once again risks squandering the opportunity to deliver long-term structural change that shores up the global economy and improves the lot of poor people