Rich countries are failing this moral test,” says ActionAid as new climate finance draft released
The debt collectors are here: “Pay developing countries what you owe!”climate activists tell polluters
Ongoing G20 talks seem to confirm UNFCCC framework that developed countries ought to pay climate finance, says ActionAid
Rich countries are trying to turn climate talks into profit venture but this week we expect them to put real finance on the table,” says ActionAid’s Teresa Anderson
“To step up the energy transition, we need COP29 to unlock the funds,” says ActionAid on Energy Day
Time to pay up, polluters! Vulnerable communities can’t wait any longer, say activists at COP29 ‘Giant Climate Invoice’ action
Rich countries pushing weak language in new climate finance negotiations to avoid providing real grant-based finance,” says ActionAid’s Teresa Anderson
The fate of millions of people living on small island states depends on this COP, says ActionAid
Ruling a setback for climate justice but polluters are now feeling the heat
We can’t stop the climate crisis by spending less on climate finance than we spend on ice cream, says ActionAid
COP29 is a test of wealthy countries’ commitment to securing a liveable planet
ActionAid lays out key asks for COP29
Having a climate denier in the White House poses new barriers to climate action, says ActionAid
“A damp squib” – IMF and World Bank annual meetings end on a low as growing debt crisis and burden of austerity remain unresolved – ActionAid
“It is outrageous that the IMF is once again calling for cuts to government wage bills” – ActionAid reacts to the Fiscal Monitor presented by the IMF
The IMF’s World Economic Outlook is a colonial relic that needs to be overhauled, says ActionAid
ActionAid calls for the abolition of the IMF and World Bank if there’s no overhaul ahead of the institutions’ annual meetings
ActionAid’s statement on Hurricane Milton
The time is up for coy talk from developed countries – we need trillions of dollars for climate finance, says ActionAid
Communities fighting to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of Nepal’s devastating floods
ActionAid USA’s statement on Congress’s Resolution on Migration Stability
The industries fuelling the climate crisis are draining public funds in the Global South, new ActionAid report reveals
ActionAid USA’s Statement on Citi’s Attempt to Criminalize Peaceful Climate Protests
ActionAid comments on the decision to make the Philippines host of the Loss and Damage Board
“Terrible warning that climate action has to move into a much higher gear,” says ActionAid
“COP29 negotiations on climate finance will be a fork in the road for Planet Earth,” says ActionAid as Bonn talks end
Fair taxes can raise over US$2 trillion yearly for climate-vulnerable communities, says new ActionAid report amid Bonn finance talks
ActionAid USA’s response to Biden’s Executive Order shutting down asylum requests
Your funding of climate-wrecking projects is robbing us of livelihoods and homes, communities tell global banks as AGM season kicks off
Time is up – IMF and World Bank must end colonial rule, says ActionAid
ActionAid joins 96 organizations in calling on the World Bank and IMF to support universal social security
ActionAid USA’s response to the introduction of the Green Climate Fund Authorization Act
Climate Justice Mobilisations on Finance
Barclays’ policy tweak needs to be the first step on a much longer journey, ActionAid says
Climate-wrecking firms make billions in ‘surplus’ profits, new ActionAid report shows
The new COP29 president has his work cut out – deliver the cash needed for a fossil fuel phase-out
Exclusion of financial services from #CSDDD is a serious blow to the EU’s climate commitment, just after COP28, says ActionAid
COP shows an “appetite for climate action”, but the willingness to fund a fossil-free future is still lacking
New COP28 draft on adaptation disappointing, ActionAid says
FAO’s roadmap fails to target agricultural emissions, ActionAid warns
Fossil fuel phase-out targets must go beyond ‘empty words,’ ActionAid says
Devastating climate report card shows need for fossil fuel phaseout finance, says ActionAid
The world is living on borrowed time – fossil fuels must go
Preaching water while drinking wine? The EU’s call for COP28 to address the world’s climate-harming financial flows not matched by its own efforts at home, research by ActionAid reveals
Sultan Al Jaber’s comments are completely divorced from the reality of hundreds of millions of people on the frontline of climate catastrophe, ActionAid says
New agriculture declaration a missed opportunity to tackle crucial issues, says ActionAid climate expert
ActionAid welcomes the operationalization of the Loss and damage fund at COP28 as an imperfect but important first step toward addressing climate impacts
ActionAid’s Five Climate Justice Benchmarks for COP28
‘Our lives will never be the same,’ say Niger Delta communities devastated by Shell gas flares
70 civil society groups urge U.S. to change course at Loss & Damage negotiations
No real action from IMF and World Bank. It’s business as usual – which means more debt and austerity – say ActionAid activists at annual meetings
Statement from ActionAid USA on the GCF-2 Pledging Conference
It’s dangerous to pin our climate hopes on CCS, says ActionAid expert as IEA launches report
Exposing TIAA’s role in land grabbing and ecocide: resources and publications to help you understand why we fight
The Africa Climate Summit is a missed opportunity for Africa to turn the tables on the climate crisis, says ActionAid
All about our ‘Fund Our Future’ campaign
Banks providing twice as much financing to the second biggest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions than Global North governments have provided to fight climate change, ActionAid reveals
Tackling corporate agriculture: resources and publications to help you understand why we fight
ActionAid statement on New Global Financial Pact Summit closing
ActionAid comment on UN climate talks in Bonn
ActionAid International comments on negotiations at Bonn Climate Conference 2023
New ActionAid Denmark report reveals Norwegian Oil Fund as Europe’s largest coal investor despite claiming to be a global climate leader
ActionAid’s response to Biden Administration’s $1 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund
Net-Zero Toolkit: Resources to Spot Greenwashing in the Dangerous Net-Zero Framing
93% of countries most vulnerable to climate disasters are either in or at significant risk of debt distress, new research by ActionAid International shows
ActionAid’s response to the first meeting of the Transitional Committee to design new Loss & Damage fund
Major IPCC climate report ‘needs to be the trigger that moves the world from grudging acceptance to rapid action’, says ActionAid International
ActionAid responds to the appointment of UAE COP28 President
ActionAid responds to UN conference on Pakistan’s recovery after devastating flooding
ActionAid USA statement on FY23 omnibus appropriations bill
Draft COP27 cover note is a ‘letdown which urgently needs saving’, says ActionAid International
G77 loss and damage funding proposal is ‘clear and sensible’, and developed countries need to stop delaying, says ActionAid
Women disproportionately impacted by climate change must have their voices heard at COP27, says ActionAid
COP27 Youth and Future Generations Day: Youth activists demand a seat at the table
ActionAid calls out US claims that carbon markets will fulfill climate goals
ActionAid responds to Net Zero recommendations at COP27
ActionAid responds to the decision to include loss and damage funding on agenda at COP27
“The climate crisis is growing, and here in Bangladesh we feel its ferocity”
Nearly 150 Organizations Call on U.S. Government to Support a Loss and Damage Finance Facility at COP27
EU Parliament increases pressure on COP27 ‘to take responsibility and act with compassion in the face of the climate crisis.’
Climate crisis to blame for high rates of cholera, says ActionAid
ActionAid’s reaction to UNGA proposal for a tax on polluters to address loss and damage
ActionAid USA response to Senate passage of the Inflation Reduction Act
Demand U.S. officials protect reproductive health rights!
European heatwaves – a glimpse into the Global South’s reality
ActionAid USA Statement on the President’s FY 23 Budget Request
IPCC report presents a harrowing catalog of climate impacts
ActionAid responds to U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s
COP26: Governments need to get on with making change not noise
COP26 week 1: All glitzy announcements and no real action
ActionAid USA reacts to revised U.S. climate finance pledge
The U.S. has a tendency to tout leadership, but from our perspective, the U.S. has not really been a leader on climate if you look at what they’re actually putting on the table
G7: Climate finance must be about justice and reparations
Leading Astronauts make a call to Earth ahead of the G7 summit – urging international cooperation for the sake of people and planet
The Fair Shares NDC: setting a benchmark for ambitious climate action
Civil society groups release “Fair Shares NDC” model for revised U.S. climate action pledge under the Paris Agreement
As the biggest long-term contributor to climate-heating emissions, the United States had a moral and legal responsibility to help vulnerable communities
Great.com interviews ActionAid USA about food security
Leading environment, development & faith groups call on the Biden administration to commit $8 billion for the Green Climate Fund
ActionAid USA says rejoining Paris Agreement is a great start, but much more needs to be done
ActionAid USA Executive Director testifies before congressional committee calling for increased climate finance
Rise With Us for System Change
Joint CSO Statement from COP25: UNFCCC de-badges civil society in unprecedented crackdown on dissent
500 Groups Call for Next President to Declare National Climate Emergency
ActionAid USA responds to Rep. Espaillat’s Green Climate Fund Authorization Act
A Month of Climate Action
NYC youth and global frontline leaders disrupt Oil & Gas Climate Initiative greenwash soirée
UN Climate Action Summit: Three ways to breathe life into the Paris Agreement
ActionAid responds to UN report on land and climate change
Farmers Building Resilience to Climate Change in The Gambia
Over 100 groups call for sunset of the Climate Investment Funds
It’s time that Wall Street paid its fair share!
ActionAid USA Response to Climate Action Now Act
ActionAid USA Response to Green New Deal Resolution
ActionAid Responds to U.S. Coal Side Event at COP24
Take A Look Back At Three Blogs We Published in 2018
ActionAid USA Responds to the EPA’s Release of the Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs)
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ActionAid Responds to the IPCC Special Report on 1.5ºC
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Heat Days, World Hunger Spike, and Hurricane Florence
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Apps to Curb Hunger, Girl Donates Piggy Banks to Flood Relief, and Heat Waves Getting Hotter
Farming, Food Safety, and Environmental Organizations Call on DOJ to Block Bayer-Monsanto Toxic Mega Merger
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Pacific Trash Vortex Cleanup, Women’s Test Scores Lowered, and First Muslim Woman in Congress
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ActionAid Reacts to Collapse of Green Climate Fund’s 20th Board Meeting
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ActionAid USA Reaction to One Planet Summit in Paris
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ActionAid Reaction to EPA’s Renewable Volume Obligations for 2018
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Political Crisis, Plastic Pollution in the Philippines, #StopLine3
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Vietnam Recovers from Typhoon Damrey, LGBTQ Rights in Guatemala, South Africa’s Black Beekeepers
ActionAid USA Reacts to Sam Clovis’ Withdrawal from USDA Nomination
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3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Famine Averted, Saudi Women Drive, Monitor Deforestation with an App
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“The Trump administration so far has not really shown any inclination to create policy based on realities on the ground.”
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Niger’s “Husband Schools”, Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti, Chile Relaxes Abortion Ban
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Kenya Election, Nepal Bans Menstrual Exile, CO2 & Fish Food
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ActionAid Reaction to EPA Announcement on Renewable Volume Obligations for 2018
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Deadly Heatwaves, Niger’s Water Crisis, and Raising Menstruation Awareness in Nepal
Paris did not bind us to do anything; those policies like the Clean Power Plan were what actually would have gotten real emissions reductions. Those fights must be fought as much as the one about Paris.
ActionAid Reaction to Trump Administration’s Withdrawal From International Climate Change Treaty
Donor governments must respect African ownership of renewable energy initiatives.
AREI International CSO Statement
ActionAid Joins the People’s Climate March
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Trump’s Climate Attacks, Tackling Sexual Harassment in Mexico City, A School for Grandmas
ActionAid Reaction to Executive Orders Targeting the Environmental Protection Agency and Climate Change Policies
Reaction to the Trump administration’s budget blueprint and proposal to end payments to global climate programs
3 Things You May Have Missed: IWD Protests, Pruitt & Climate, and Somalia Declares National Disaster
ActionAid Reaction to Confirmation of Scott Pruitt as E.P.A. Administrator
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Refugees in Limbo, Thai Grandmas Fight Mining, Indian Scientists’ Cheaper Carbon Capture Method
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: The Gambia State of Emergency, Obama Administration Sends $500m to Climate Fund, Indian Anti-Trafficking Activists Win Award
Why We #RejectRex Trump’s Choice for Secretary of State
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What does the E-10 sticker have to do with farmers around the world? @kellystone6 reviews PBS’s #TheEthanolEffect
We’re seeing an unparalleled momentum to tackle climate change
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Hurricane Matthew, Climate Change & Pakistan’s First Female Truck Driver
3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Climate Change, Syria & the Refugee Crisis
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ActionAid USA reacts to release of 2017 Renewable Volume Obligations
Climate agreement falls short of a fair deal – but Paris is only the beginning
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