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The staggering profits from Europe’s biggest oil and gas giant should be a ‘spur’ for climate accountability, says Christian Aid.

Figure easily beats predictions and comes despite fall in oil and gas price

Over three-quarters of UK adults believe oil and gas companies should take responsibility for the damages the industry inflicts upon the environment, new polling suggests.

More than three quarters of UK adults believe it is wrong for oil and gas companies to make record profits without taking responsibility for damage to the environment, new polling suggests.Shell has followed BP in announcing better-than-expected prof...

LONDON: UK-based Christian Aid has described a $78.3 million legal battle with a pro-Israeli advocacy group as “lawfare” aimed at causing financial and reputational damage to organizations that do charitable work with Palestinians, the Guardian reported on Thursday. The New York-based Zionist Advocacy Center filed a complaint in 2017 alleging that the “virulently anti-Israel”

The charity was taken to court for its work in the Middle East by the US body, whose director justifies litigation against NGOs that ‘cross the line’

An open letter, backed by opinion poll, urges the UK to restore aid budget on eve of a three-day ‘pilgrimage for peace’ in the east African country

In 2022, there were 10 climate-fueled extreme weather events that each caused more than $3 billion worth of damage.

A faith-based coalition’s yearly report on the economic impact of climate-driven natural disasters has revealed that each of the costliest extreme weather events of 2022 caused over $3 billion in damages. Entitled Counting the Cost 2022: A Year of Climate Breakdown—was published by Christian Aid, a London-based relief agency of over 40 U.K. and Irish […]

Advocates warn results of climate disasters will become unaffordable and uninsurable