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Quakers endorse calls for wealthy nations to stop blocking funding for climate loss and damage
25 October 2022
Thirty-one years after the first calls for financial support for those wrestling with climate disasters, a new brief calls for a loss and damage finance facility to be agreed at COP27 in Egypt.
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British and US Quakers hold silent worship outside one of world's biggest investors in coal
7 October 2022
Quakers on either side of the Atlantic held a public act of prayer outside Vanguard buildings today, 7 October, asking financial giant to abandon fossil fuels.
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Quakers stand by peaceful climate protestors
28 September 2022
Quakers across Britain are supporting peaceful protestors who took nonviolent action to demand an end to new oil and gas projects in the UK and have been found guilty of breaking an injunction.
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Quakers join international action for a loss and damage fund
22 September 2022
On Loss and Damage Action Day 2022 Quakers join people around the world in calling for polluters to pay up for the loss and damage being wrought on communities by climate breakdown.
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Quakers dismayed by energy strategy
7 April 2022
Quakers in Britain have responded to the British Energy Security Strategy published by the government today (7 April).
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Quakers in Britain statement on COP26 outcomes
15 November 2021
As COP26 concluded, Quakers in Britain made this statement.
“COP26 has delivered tiny steps forward when giant leaps are needed.
“This is particularly unjust for people in the Global South who are feeling the first and worst impacts of the climate crisis, despite being least responsible for causing it.