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ActionAid responds to the shocking level of exclusion at COP26

It's shocking that so much of civil society is excluded from observing the COP 26 climate negotiations. Here's what ActionAid International has to say.

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COP26: Governments need to get on with making change not noise

On Nature Day at COP26, ActionAid responds as 45 countries including the UK pledge to protect biodiversity and cut emissions from agriculture. Read the response here.

Women walking along a flooded path in Buzi, Mozambique

COP26: ActionAid responds to US-China announcement to cooperate on climate action

In response to the U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s, Brandon Wu, ActionAid USA’s Director of Policy and Campaigns, said: "The Framework announced by the U

Taposhi Rani (20) is an activist, campaigning for women to become leaders during emergencies and to become protectors of their environment

World on track for 2.4˚C of warming despite raft of new net zero pledges at COP26

ActionAid responds as the Climate Action Tracker warns that the world is headed to at least 2.4˚C of warming and net zero targets are ‘just lip service to real climate action’.

Oil refinery, Niger Delta

COP26: A text that creates the illusion of action is arguably worse than no text at all

ActionAid responds as the new draft text of the COP26 negotiation falls far short of the action and commitments needed to limit warming to 1.5˚C and support frontline communities.

Mozambique floods

Young Palestinians show solidarity with farmers during olive harvest

Palestinian youth groups have joined farmers to help with the olive harvest in Al-Makhrour, near Bethlehem. This is the latest in a series of actions arranged by ActionAid Palestine in partnership

Sondos Abu Srur, a young Palestinian woman, picks olives in the occupied Palestinian territories.

As rains fail, families in rural Kenya face perilous levels of hunger and thirst

Rains have failed for the third consecutive season in vast areas of arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya. ActionAid Kenya’s communications manager Fridah Bwari on how drought is devastating family

Sugow Abdullahi Abdi, a farmer, stands over one of his deceased animals.

EU fails to deliver on climate finance at Africa Summit

ActionAid responds as leaders of the nations most responsible for the climate crisis fail to deliver solutions.

Nelia and her family family faced severe food shortages as a result of droughts in the Makoni District of Zimbabwe

IPCC report presents a harrowing catalogue of climate impacts

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases its hard-hitting report on climate impacts, ActionAid is calling for a global system to support climate vulnerable countries to rebuild

Carcasses of livestock scatter the drought-ridden landscape in Garissa County, Kenya

ActionAid responds to the latest IPCC report

ActionAid responds to the latest instalment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s landmark scientific report on the climate crisis.

Women collect water in Xidhinta, Somaliland