Climate change
Climate change is fundamentally challenging the way we ‘do’ development. No one yet knows all the answers for adapting to the changes, but already Christian Aid is helping our partner organisations and poor communities develop their own solutions.
Scientists are now certain that world temperatures are rising, and 90 per cent certain that human activities that generate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are to blame. There are already reports of significant changes in some countries, including greatly reduced rainfall, the spread of deserts and increasingly severe flooding. The crisis has already begun.
- A rise in average temperatures of just 1.2°C could mean the failure of 80 per cent of crops in southern Africa.
- A rise of 2-3°C could lead to water scarcity for two billion people.
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Did you know...
- £1 could pay for five passion fruit-tree seedlings in Kenya.
- £15 could pay for a goat for a family in Bangladesh, to help them re-establish their homes and livelihoods after losing them to river erosion.
- £32 could pay for a sewing machine to help women in Bangladesh make their own children’s clothes, and other clothes to sell.
- £45 could pay for a truckload of manure and fertiliser to improve farmers’ crops in Kenya.
