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• Press release: Embargoed until 00:01 Friday 14 December 2018
  
  Christian Aid blasts UK 'double standards' - and 'complicity' in Yemen war - as poll finds public wants government to stop selling arms to Saudi

  Christian Aid today warns the UK Government against double standards in its engagement on war and peace and demands that [...]
  

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• Christian Aid welcomes UK call with High Ambition Coalition in Katowice

  Wednesday December 12th, 2018

  Following the announcement from a group of progressive countries at the UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland, Christian Aid’s Head [...]
  

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• COP24: Delivering Katowice climate talks like ‘solving a 3D jigsaw’ says Christian Aid

  Tuesday December 11th, 2018

  As ministers meet at the UN climate summit in Poland to discuss ramping up emissions reduction plans, Christian Aid warns [...]
  

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• COP24: Christian Aid criticises USA, Saudi and China attacks on human rights at climate talks

  Monday December 10th, 2018

  On international human rights day, Christian Aid criticised countries including the USA, Saudi Arabia, India and China for trying to [...]
  

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• Christian Aid condemns Saudi Arabia, Russia and the USA as climate villains that imperil the world

  Sunday, December 12th, 2018

  Christian Aid have responded to the events at the UN climate summit in Poland where the USA, Saudi Arabia, Russia [...]
  

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• Natural solutions for negative emissions a better bet than sci-fi schemes says Christian Aid report

  Embargoed until 00:01 GMT/01:01 CET, Friday December 7th, 2018

  Actions like introducing beavers and replanting mangroves can also help protect humans from the impact of climate change Following calls this [...]
  

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• Christian Aid responds to Global Carbon Project report

  Embargoed until 18:00 GMT/19:00 CET, December 5th, 2018

  This is the wake-up call for anyone who hit the snooze button following the IPCC report. A new study from the [...]
  

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• Let’s help bring ‘peace on Earth’ to families hurt by war and conflict this Christmas, says Christian Aid

  4 December 2018

  Christian Aid is inviting the public to support its festive fundraising appeal for families caught up in conflict overseas.
  

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• COP24: A ‘just transition’ to a cleaner, greener, economy will bring benefits to the world

  Monday, December 3rd, 2018

  Today at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, the host nation is launching a declaration on creating a ‘just [...]
  

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• COP24 climate summit sponsored by coal companies is ‘slap in the face’ to delegates says Christian Aid

  Christian Aid has criticised the Polish hosts of next week’s UN climate summit in Katowice for unpresidential behaviour by allowing [...]
  

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