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93% of countries most vulnerable to climate disasters are either in or at significant risk of debt distress, new research by ActionAid International shows

New research by humanitarian organisation, ActionAid International, has revealed a shocking 93% of countries at the forefront of climate disasters are drowning in debt. The organisation is calling for

The Gambia: Agroecology

Climate disasters are destroying the lives and livelihoods of millions of people worldwide. Fossil fuels and industrial agriculture are fuelling the destruction of our planet, driving up carbon

Horn of Africa Pledging Conference: “Disappointing results with a devastating impact on women and girls.” 

In response to the funds pledged at the High-Level Horn of Africa event in New York on Wednesday, Tinebeb Berhane, Country Director at ActionAid Ethiopia, said: 

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

Rising sea temperatures are leading to the exacerbation of tropical cyclones, resulting in long-lasting and slow-moving intense cyclones in the Arabian sea, like Cyclone Biparjoy. Loss and damage

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Fund our Future for a Just World

This World Environment Day, ActionAid organised mobilisations around the world to call for a feminist, just transition to a world free of fossil fuels and industrial agriculture. 

UN climate talks this week expose a 'gaping hole' in the funding needed to pay for climate action

As SB58 UN climate talks in Bonn wrap up, Teresa Anderson, ActionAid International’s Global Lead on Climate Justice says:   

Branding loans as climate finance risks making vulnerable countries’ problems even worse, warns ActionAid on the eve of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris 

On the eve of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, Teresa Anderson, Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid International, said:

ActionAid statement on New Global Financial Pact Summit

Climate finance is not only about making climate action fair, it’s about making climate action possible. The financial system needs to be totally transformed to help countries drowning in climate

Stop Funding Destruction and Begin to #FundOurFuture

ActionAid today launched the Fund Our Future campaign during the People's Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya and published a report naming and shaming the biggest banks investing in fossil fuels and

Climate Justice Camp 2023: A new wave of the climate justice movement

This is the story of how a quiet Lebanese village welcomed 450 young leaders and campaigners for the second annual Climate Justice Camp.