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WCC calls on churches to "renew efforts" for a fair climate deal
(Geneva, 26.02.2010) The World Council of Churches (WCC) has called on member churches and the ecumenical movement to keep pushing the international community for a "fair, ambitious and binding agreement" on climate change, in view of the UN climate summit to take place in Mexico in December.
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Bunker fuels - A Breakthrough Option for the Copenhagen Climate Deal
(Copenhagen 8.12.2009) Emissions from shipping and aviation are growing fast and are best tackled through a global mitigation framework. Copenhagen needs to provide a more productive form of guidance on how to handle bunkers than is currently the case with the Kyoto Protocol. Development and Conservation Organisations are now presenting a common paper on how this might be achieved.
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New publication: „Tourism Development in a Changing Climate“
(Bonn, 30.11.2009) On the occasion of the climate conference COP 15 in Copenhagen, respect in cooperation with EED-Tourism Watch, Naturefriends International and other partners illustrate backgrounds and perspectives on the role of tourism in international climate politics.
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Unavoidable climate change will cost Africa at least $26 billion a year
(Nairobi, 27.11.2009) If warming is allowed to reach the higher 2°C limit that European countries have indicated they are prepared to accept, then the costs to Africa would double, warns the study "The Economic Cost of Climate Change in Africa" of the Pan-African Alliance for Climate Justice.
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NGOs, activists and citizens discuss the failures of current offsetting schemes and call for more sustainable development in any post-2012 mechanism
(New Delhi, 16 November 2009) In an effort to discuss reasons for the failure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), more than 80 activists, citizens and representatives of NGOs from Armenia, Bangladesh, India and Uganda gathered at a workshop in New Delhi. They concluded that any post-2012 mechanism must enforce the principle of sustainable development.
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Committed to climate justice

Climate Witnesses claim consistent climate protection
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Bild vergrößern Climate Witnesses claim consistent climate protection

For the poor in developing countries, the effects of climate change are already being felt. If gone unchecked, global warming will be catastrophic. The rise in global temperatures must be kept below 2° C, but to achieve this, the world needs a new approach to energy and climate-friendly development.

Industrialized countries carry a double responsibility. At home they must commit to climate protection and drastically reduce their own carbon footprints.

As the chief cause of climate change, the industrialized world also has an historical responsibility vis-à-vis the world's developing countries, whose opportunities for development have been negatively affected as a result. Adjusting to the effects of climate change and enabling the measures required to effectively reduce emissions calls for financial and technological transfer from industrialized countries.

Climate protection, sustainable development and global justice are one, each determining the other. The churches and Church Development Service are committed to climate justice and for climate-just policymaking. EED supports the use of renewable energy sources in developing countries, which are an effective way of mitigating climate change and battling poverty at the same time, assuring the poor access to clean and affordable energy.

EED is part of a worldwide ecumenical movement committed to preserving creation and climate justice. In partnership with other Protestant development agencies throughout Europe (APRODEV), the World Council of Churches and its other partners throughout the world, EED engages in both lobbying and advocacy work to help bring about positive developments in the climate debate.

In Germany, EED is active in The Climate Alliance, an association of organizations committed to promoting climate protection and global justice. Its members range from environmental and development/aid organizations to churches and other actors within Germany's civil society.