Christian Aid Podcasts

The Triple Climate Crisis

Throughout the Trade Justice campaign, Christian Aid worked very closely with Third World Network and its director Martin Khor. Not only is Martin continuing his campaigning work to achieve trade justice for developing countries, but he is also advising the G77 governments on international climate change negotiations in the UNFCCC. Martin Khor describes how developing countries are facing a Triple Crisis: poverty, climate change and some of the potential solutions to climate change.

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Programme Links:

• Third World Network
• Christian Aid website Climate Change campaign actions
• Christian Aid Climate Change briefings
• Christian Aid Trade campaign

Martin Khor was interviewed by Amanda Farrant of Christian Aid. The views expressed in this programme are those of the contributors and may not reflect official Christian Aid policy.  For our public position, please visit http://www.christianaid.org.uk

In this podcast, Martin Khor explains why the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol in their current forms are generally favourable for developing countries, and also why rich countries’ attempts to force developing countries to increase their commitments to reduce carbon emissions is simply not affair or feasible option.

Robert Beckford

Broadcaster and theologian Robert Beckford's latest film, An African Scandal, is a damning indictment on the West's economic policies towards Africa. Ahead of a national tour of the film, we recorded a quick and dirty interview down the line with him from Turkey. Poor audio quality aside, he has some interesting things to say about when is the time for radical action...

Download an_african_scandal.mp3

Programme notes:

• The Great African Scandal
• Film tour dates
• Robert Beckford

Robert was speaking via Skype with Steven Buckley and Dionne Gravesande in a noisy Christian Aid office.

Spending the Tsunami Millions

On the morning of 26 December 2004, when children were playing on the beach and mothers were cooking Sunday lunch at home, the second strongest ‘megathrust’ earthquake in recorded history ripped open the ocean floor off the west coast of Indonesia. Releasing the same amount of energy as 23,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs, it sent giant waves travelling as fast as jet planes smashing into the countries of the Indian Ocean. Scenes of destruction were everywhere. More than a quarter of a million people died in a matter of minutes. Millions more lost their homes and livelihoods.

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The cost of rebuilding was estimated at $10.75 billion, but a record breaking $13.6 billion was pledged by donors worldwide.Christian Aid raised £47 million in the appeal. By the end of 2007 we had spent £40 million – five times more than in any previous emergency – rebuilding 22,000 homes and helping 180,000 people back into work. This is a remarkable achievement by our 33 partners in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia, especially as we are one of only three DEC agencies on course to spend our budget on time by the end of 2007.   

A recent independent evaluation looked at where the Christian Aid money went and how well it was spent. Now you can listen in to this internal Christian Aid staff podcast from December. Christian Aid's Anthony Morton King is interviewed by Antoinette Powell. Check out the programme notes below for a link to the report...

Programme Notes:

Tsunami 3 years on

The evaluation report