Portsmouth Climate Action Network

How to become an affiliate

Christian Aid

Climate change threatens billions of the world’s poorest people. Christian Aid estimates that 182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa could die of disease directly attributable to climate change by the end of the century. Millions more throughout the world face death and devastation due to climate change induced floods, drought and conflict.

Christian Aid is working with communities across the globe to prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change. By strengthening people’s assets and livelihoods, we try to ensure that the risks they face don’t turn into a disaster.

But we also need local change to lessen the risk of climate change for the world’s poor. We need to make changes in our lives as individuals and as communities. We also need to demand immediate cutbacks on carbon emission from local and national governments.
http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/climatechange/index.htm

People & Planet at Portsmouth University

We support the aims of PCAN because they’re a really focused way of dealing with the huge problem of Climate Change on a local level
http://peopleandplanet.org/campaigns/#ccc

Oxfam – Portsmouth Action Group

Given the failure of the international community to address the causes and consequences of climate change, Oxfam is now concerned that it poses a major threat to the livelihoods, health, and educational opportunities of people living in poverty. It also threatens to undermine recent progress on poverty reduction in many countries, let alone reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet poor communities and poor countries have little say in how the challenge will be addressed. Action has to be taken in richer countries and we need to start in our own communities.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/climate_change/index.htm

Portsmouth World Development Group

Climate change is real, and the greatest challenge facing humanity. Rich countries like the UK are responsible - it is our excessive carbon emissions that are driving it - but it is the poor countries that will bear the brunt of the impact. 160,000 people already die every year as a direct result of climate change and hundreds of millions face drought, floods, starvation, disease and death in the future.
We have to take action locally.
http://www.wdm.org.uk/portsmouth/index.php

Queen Elizabeth Country Park

We support the aims of PCAN because they run parallel with those of QECP
www.hants.gov.uk/countryside/qecp