Ten members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are visiting Nicaragua to examine the effects of climate change. They will also study how extreme poverty, hunger and climate change interrelate.

A Lightship owned by Cardiff’s churches is being transformed into Noah’s Ark by the city’s children in a bid to tell UK leaders that they must act urgently to protect human and animal life on the planet.

The poorest in the UK will be hit hardest by climate change, a new report has warned although tackling climate change also offers huge opportunities for cutting poverty in the UK if global warming and poverty are tackled together.

A front-line worker tackling poverty in Peru has warned that without stronger climate change action from the West ‘millions of poor people will be abandoned to the escalating ravages of an unpredictable climate.’

Unless major changes are made to water management strategies, climate change will threaten the lives of millions of people as soaring temperatures deplete water supplies, a new report suggests.

As international climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland reached the end of their first week, development agency Tearfund has urged rich countries not to detour from their Bali commitments.

Christians have been urged to opt for "low-carbon living" within "a web of fossil fuel existence" as many poor countries such as Bangladesh experience the negative aspects of human-induced global warming.

The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church have urged the Government to reduce Britain’s carbon emissions following Lord Turner’s report published today.

Campaigners from Christian aid agency Tearfund have handed a 10,000-strong petition to the government urging them to help poor people in the developing world adapt to the effects of climate change.