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It’s dangerous to pin our climate hopes on CCS, says ActionAid expert as IEA launches report

Climate Ambition Summit: Shutting down the space for greenwashing is a necessary start, says ActionAid climate expert

Climate march makes it clear: It’s time to phase out fossil fuels

Climate Ambition Summit an opportunity to take bold climate crisis decisions, say ActionAid climate experts

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

Defunding industrial agriculture in favor of sustainable alternatives like agroecology is key in the fight against the climate crisis and food insecurity.

A crucial moment for the new Loss & Damage Fund

ActionAid statement on New Global Financial Pact Summit closing

Communities in Western India brace themselves as over 74,000 people evacuated ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy’s landfall in India and Pakistan

ActionAid comment on UN climate talks in Bonn

ActionAid International comments on negotiations at Bonn Climate Conference 2023

Fund Our Future

The Vicious Cycle: Connections Between the Debt Crisis and Climate Crisis

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

ActionAid’s response to the first meeting of the Transitional Committee to design new Loss & Damage fund

The Loss & Damage Transitional Committee meets next week: what to expect?

Major IPCC climate report ‘needs to be the trigger that moves the world from grudging acceptance to rapid action’, says ActionAid International

ActionAid strengthens resilience as Cyclone Freddy death toll rises in Malawi

Humanitarian charity ActionAid responding to extreme flooding in Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy

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”

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

The Biden Administration’s AIM (Agricultural Innovation Mission) for climate is way off target

The IMF and how it’s missing the mark on a just energy transition

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
Niranjali Amerasinghe, Executive Director of ActionAid USA, on the U.S. climate fair share and putting real money forward

G7: Climate finance must be about justice and reparations

ActionAid USA says rejoining Paris Agreement is a great start, but much more needs to be done

Show Up, Fight Back: unpacking dispossession, displacement, and duo economic and climate crises

In climate talks, rich countries are getting away with murder

When governments fail, civil society sets the agenda: a look into COP 25

Women farmers restoring balance to the Earth

The climate action we need doesn’t leave workers behind

UN Climate Action Summit: Three ways to breathe life into the Paris Agreement

Climate Justice in the Food System

The Climate Crisis is Now: Who Needs to Do What?

Sanders’ Green New Deal Plan A Good Step Towards International Climate Justice

The DNC got it wrong on a climate debate

ActionAid USA Response to Climate Action Now Act

Green New Deal: What it Is and What it Isn’t

“I Want You to Panic”: Why Today’s Protests Matter

Supporter Spotlight: Baker Elementary Fundraises For Disaster Response

ActionAid USA Response to Green New Deal Resolution

Climate Action Must Put Everyday People at the Center

ActionAid Responds to U.S. Coal Side Event at COP24

Inequality, the Climate Crisis and Authoritarianism

Take A Look Back At Three Blogs We Published in 2018

This Photo from California Fires Shows Why We Need to Transform the Industrial Food and Farming System Now

What You Need to Know About COP 24

ActionAid USA Responds to the EPA’s Release of the Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs)

Here Are Three Things We Achieved Together in 2018

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Rohingya Refugees Sent Back to Myanmar, Fishermen Suing Fossil Fuel Companies, and LGBTQ Rights in Costa Rica

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Venice Floods, North Carolina Joins Paris Agreement, and Oceans Absorb Heat

World Food Week in Rome and CFS 45

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Cherry Blossoms Bloom Early, Driven from Home by Climate Change, and Life Beyond 1.5°C

Climate Change and the Right to Food

International Community Development Means Fighting Colonialism and Supporting Grassroots Initiatives

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: World Warming Half A Degree, Women Blazing Trails, and Brazilian Elections

ActionAid Responds to the IPCC Special Report on 1.5ºC

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Sami People Fight for Rights, FGM Crackdown, Gazans Resist Blockade

Can the World Accept That Global Hunger Is Rising Again?

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Heat Days, World Hunger Spike, and Hurricane Florence

As Global Hunger, Land Grabbing, and Climate Change Continue, Time to Look at Root Causes in our Agriculture Policies

Climate Justice Demands for the Paris Rulebook

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

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Africa Leads Fight Against Plastic, Kenyan Women Claim Their Rights, and Nigerian Woman Upcycles Tires

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe Election, Global Wildfires, and Youth Voter Registration on the Rise

ActionAid Reacts to Collapse of Green Climate Fund’s 20th Board Meeting

Real Action to Keep the World Below 1.5°C

Still Looking Forward on Climate

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: African Refugees Champion Girls’ Education, Indian Women Farmers Claim Land Rights, Indigenous Women Occupy Washington State Capitol

ActionAid USA Reaction to One Planet Summit in Paris

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: Zimbabwe’s Political Crisis, Plastic Pollution in the Philippines, #StopLine3

Making Sense of the Many Faces of the United States at the UN Climate Talks

UN Climate Negotiations Kick Off: What to Look For

Clean Power Plan Repeal Ignores Billions Impacted by Climate Change

3 Things You May Have Missed This Week: G20 Protests, Countries Set Up Climate Funds, and Lebanese Café Brings Enemies Together

The U.S., Nicaragua and Syria: Out of the Paris Agreement, but for Very Different Reasons

ActionAid Reaction to Trump Administration’s Withdrawal From International Climate Change Treaty