The former UK prime minister warned of a second or third wave of the COVID-19 crisis which he calls a “global emergency” that cannot truly be ended “unless it is eradicated in every continent”.
Christian Aid has taken the decision to implement the UK Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (known as furloughing) to ensure that its core international work can continue, and to ensure livelihoods in the long term.
Responding to the G20 finance ministers' agreement to put bilateral debt payments of the poorest countries on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, Christian Aid warns that without full debt cancellation, the G20 announcement only provides a brief respite.
Poor nations are being robbed of revenues worth $416 billion per year by 'illicit financial flows’, money that is illegally or abusively earned, transferred or used around the world, Christian Aid has estimated.
People living in the poorest countries receive around £2.40 per year – less than a penny per day – to protect themselves from the devastating impacts of the climate crisis, Oxfam estimates in a new report released on 23 September 2019 ahead of the Climate Action Summit in New York.
Isaac Harvey, an award-winning vlogger and member of URC Youth who edits videos using his feet, has released a short film urging the United Reformed Church to divest from fossil fuels.
The G7 should not allow the US to block more ambitious climate action, said Oxfam ahead of a meeting of G7 Environment Ministers in Metz, France on 5 and 6 May.