Climate Change

Climate change on the agenda

Global warming will have severe and negative effects on the livelihood of millions of the world's poorest people. DanChurchAid (DCA) works with partners in Africa, Asia and Central America to avoid the negative effects of global warming. Read DCA's policy paper on climate change

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The most marginalised and vulnerable groups with the lowest adaptation capacity will be affected the most and forecasts foresee drastic impacts on poverty, food security and hunger in the world’s poorest countries.

Climate change leads to hunger

Climate changes are a global problem which will affect us all in one way or another.

But no matter how terrible the consequences will be for people in the industrialised countries, the consequences will be even more brutal to vulnerable populations in the poor part of the world. They will in particular experience lack of food and then serious hunger disasters.

How we work with climate change

• View videos and slideshows from disaster preparedness projects in Cambodia
• Read about climate change consequenses for pastoral people in Ethiopia

Download policy

Download DanChurchAid policy paper:

Read our climate reports

• A greenhouse development rights analysis 1.80 MB
• Intellectual prooerty rights - blocking an equitable solution to the climate crisis 819.72 kB
• Patents and climate change 175.64 kB
• Unbalanced participation in climate change negotiations 50.40 kB
• You reap what you sow 6.07 MB

Download book on climate change

Download full version of the new book by Malene Haakanson, who portrays the struggle of an Ethiopian family over the course of one year:

• Front cover 300.74 kB
• preface-contents 325.04 kB
• It's not fair 223.67 kB
• A Question of Survival 196.84 kB
• What's become of the rain 1.17 MB
• Global warming 607.54 kB
• Ethiopia's climate challenges 314.42 kB
• Food for seven months 639.55 kB
• Climate change means empty stomachs 228.63 kB
• Kassa's family struggle on 632.88 kB
• They don't care about us 492.33 kB
• Ethiopia must declare state of emergency 266.85 kB
• We have no power 771.46 kB
• Our responsibility 128.77 kB
• Thanks 194.88 kB
• Statistics, links and notes 272.71 kB

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