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View a photogallery of CAFOD supporters calling on their MPs to strengthen the current Climate Change Bill during the recent Week of Action
Almost 20,000 pledge cards were ordered from CAFOD for MPs and individuals to commit to act to tackle climate change.
School students, parishes and groups across the UK all lobbied their MPs during the week and hundreds more emailed their MPs from CAFOD's website.
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![Almost 300 members of religious orders with placards and banners called on Parliament to "Stop Climate Chaos", and met with their own MPs to urge changes in the Climate Change Bill [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/get-involved/campaigning/images/stop-climate-chaos-campaign-images/religious-lobby-of-parliament-april-2008/709588-1-eng-GB/religious-lobby-of-parliament-april-2008_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Watch video from the Religious Lobby Film clips and interviews from a day when hundreds of religious brothers and sisters descended on Westminster to demand MPs strengthen the Climate Change Bill and "kick the carbon habit" for the sake of the poor |
![Drought-withered sunflowers in Zambia [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/africa/zambia/drought_affected_crops_landscape/227352-2-eng-GB/drought_affected_crops_landscape_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg)
Climate change is an issue of justice: it hits the world's poorest communities first and hardest. |
![Gabriel Murwa and his wife with their last remaining cow from a herd of 100. The others have all died. [Richard Wainwright]](/var/storage/images/where_we_work/africa/kenya/images/gabriel_murwa_and_his_wife_with_their_last_remaining_cow/290005-2-eng-GB/gabriel_murwa_and_his_wife_with_their_last_remaining_cow_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) G8 falls short on climate change CAFOD is disappointed that the G8 Summit in Japan has not gone far enough on cutting the necessary carbon emissions to stem global warming |
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World Youth Day 2008
Anna finds friendship and solidarity throughout Sydney during the global gathering of thousands of young pilgrims
![Young people sharing their views in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/where_we_work/africa/ethiopia/images/daniel_abate_addis_ababa/9133-2-eng-GB/daniel_abate_addis_ababa_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Gabriel Murwa and his wife with their last remaining cow from a herd of 100. The others have all died. [Richard Wainwright]](/var/storage/images/where_we_work/africa/kenya/images/gabriel_murwa_and_his_wife_with_their_last_remaining_cow/290005-2-eng-GB/gabriel_murwa_and_his_wife_with_their_last_remaining_cow_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![More than 700 campaigners rallied before delivering anti-poverty messages to every EU embassy in London [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/trade_justice_campaign_images/embassy_bus/199633-2-eng-GB/embassy_bus_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Niccollette and Shrirvanie film the aftermath of the Guyanan floods, with support from CAFOD partner Guyana Human Rights Association [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/what-we-do/communications/images/after-guyana-floods/679742-1-eng-GB/after-guyana-floods_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
