Climate crisis

The international community must act now to support climate-vulnerable people with the money they need to adapt to a crisis they have done the least to cause.

The theme of this year's Human Rights Day focuses on how human rights are a pathway to solutions, playing a critical role as a preventative, protective and transformative force for good.

The agreement will not provide enough money for affected countries to prepare for climate disasters and rebuild after emergencies.

Pope Francis has urged world leaders not to allow new financial support for countries affected by the climate crisis to worsen the debt crisis low-income countries face.

Campaigners dressed as mock charity fundraisers have visited Shell and BP's London offices to call for polluters to contribute to paying for the climate crisis.

Fossil fuel companies should be taxed more to provide funds for countries on the frontline of the climate crisis, bishops have told ministers.

In Honduras, when people raise their voices to call attention to the environmental damage caused by large-scale industrial projects, they put their lives at risk.

If deforestation continues, the Amazon will lose its ability to produce its own rainfall and the largest rainforest on the planet will become dry grassland.

In the past, the community was regularly terrorised by armed men who would shoot indiscriminately, kill livestock and set fire to their crops and straw houses.

Play your part in tackling the climate crisis by making a swap in your life – and urge politicians to do the same.