All Climate Change Features
Malawi Journal: Community Adaptation to Climate Change
Sep 29, 2008
ActionAid USA's Ilana Solomon traveled to Malawi to learn more about how local people are responding to climate change. She met with women who are changing their communities and transforming their lives. She discusses how their efforts relate to our advocacy for new international funds for climate adaptation.
Climate Change Makes Tough Choices for Kenyans
Aug 4, 2008
The Pokot community in Tangulbei, Kenya hopes for rain. It has not rained there for two years. Their crops wither and their livestock languish in the drought. ActionAid provides relief to the region by bringing in water and food and pushes for more access for the people of Pokot to the resources they need to adapt to their increasingly arid environment.
ActionAid Challenges G8 on Response to Food Crisis
Jul 2, 2008
Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meet in Hokaido, Japan, from July 7-9. The failure of G8 policies on food, biofuels, and climate change places up to 1.7 billion people – 25% of the world’s population – at risk of hunger. ActionAid makes recommendations to G8 leaders in our new report, “Cereal Offenders: How the G8 has Contributed to the Global Food Crisis and What They Can Do to Stop It.”
ActionAid Makes Recommendations to UN Climate Adaptation Fund
Jun 16, 2008
Developing countries need substantial new resources for adaptation to enable them to cope with the current impacts of climate change. These resources, estimated at upwards of US $67 billion a year, must come from rich countries, which are largely responsible for creating climate change. A new fund for adaptation was created at the global climate change negotiations in Bali last December. ActionAid is working to ensure that this fund has the policies and structures in place to be just, equitable, and effective.
Overview: Climate Change
Jun 5, 2008
Climate change is one of the greatest obstacles to ending poverty and one of the gravest equity challenges of our time. While the richest countries in the world have been responsible for a disproportionate amount of global carbon emissions which cause global warming, it is the poorest countries in the world that are hit first and worst by climate change.
Climate Equity Campaign - Speakers Tour
Jun 2, 2008
Climate change threatens countries across the globe with droughts, flooding, and famine. Bold and immediate US leadership could help reduce worst impacts. ActionAid invites you to meet civil-society leaders from Nigeria and Indonesia to learn why the next US president must take action on climate change.
Creating a Climate of Change: Women, Nuclear Energy and Justice in a Warming World
Apr 9, 2008
Not all poor people will be affected equally climate change. Women, who make up 70 percent of the world’s poor, depend more than men on natural resources that are threatened by climate change. Poor women also lack access to and control over natural resources, technologies, and credit. As a result, they are more vulnerable to seasonal and episodic weather and to natural disasters resulting from climate change. Despite these injustices, women all over the world and been leading in creating innovative means to adapt to climate. Please join ActionAid and Nobel Peace Laureates Wangari Maathai and Jody WIlliams for a discussion of the impact of climate change on women. ActionAid works to ensure that women’s needs and capacities are at the forefront of the debate on climate change. Climate justice must not just take into account the unequal relationship between the north and the south. It must also address the ways in which women are particularly affected by climate change and to harness women’s unique ability to adapt to climate change.
Call for a New Trade Policy
Mar 20, 2008
No country has ever become developed by following a free-trade model from the outset. Yet the world’s richest countries continue to force the poorest countries to open their markets to global competition. Join ActionAid in the fight for trade policies that support sustainable development.
Demand Changes in US Food Aid Policies
Mar 20, 2008
Each year, millions of tons of food are shipped around the world from the United States to respond to crises caused by droughts, conflicts and severe poverty. While there is little doubt that this food aid has saved countless lives, it is also clear that the US program is enormously inefficient. Find out how you can help bring about sensible and efficient food aid.
Climate Change
Mar 20, 2008
The poorest countries in the world are hit first and worst by the impacts of climate change. While the richest countries in the world produce a disproportionate amount of the carbon emissions that cause global warming, poor countries are dealing with the droughts and floods that result. Learn more about Climate Change and how it relates to the growing inequity among rich and poor nations.
Adaptation Funding
Mar 17, 2008
Climate Change, without question, is one of the most critical global challenges of this century. If we don’t take action now, millions of people will be affected by food shortages and climate-related disasters. ActionAid’s rights-based approach and more than three decades of experience have positioned us to take a strong lead in responding to this challenge. We ask you to join us in this fight.
