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Welcome to Tolerance International UK Electricity for communities living in rainforests Tolerance International is proud to announce the commissioning of a ground breaking programme to provide electricity for communities deep in the rainforests of the Amazon. The programme will provide sustainable electricity to impoverished communities, providing lighting in their homes and computers for school children. It will also tackle reforestation by halting slash and burn activities. 
Did you know that global deforestation produces around 25% of the world's CO2 emission? This is more that 10 times UK’s annual CO2 emission. Did you know that over a third of the poorest people in the world dwell in rainforests? Did you know that £1 in every £1,000 paid in insurance premiums could insure the future of the world if applied to fighting climate change? I want to help eradicate poverty whilst tackling climate change. I want to join the Human & Habitat campaign
Why we need to care about climate change: the UK has 1% of the world's population but we produce 2.3% of the world's CO2. Britons produce more carbon emissions from air travel per head, for instance, than any other country. People in western countries are maintaining energy-intensive lifestyles to the detriment of poorer countries affected by severe climate change. But you can do something about it by offsetting your carbon emissions. You could support our tree planting programme in Loreto, Peru. Read more...
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
This programme provides a curriculum context within which schools can offer planned and coordinated opportunities for pupils to explore attitudes and values and to develop knowledge, skills and understanding that support inclusion, challenge racism and extremism and value diversity. Read more...
Tolerance International UK is a member of the Stop Climate Chaos I Count coalition. Stop Climate Chaos is a growing coalition which includes most of the UK's leading environmental and international development organisations as well as women's organisations, activist groups and faith-based campaigns. About I Count... In conjunction with Stop Climate Chaos, we ask you to sign the petition below to encourage the Prime Minister to maximise renewable energy sources. Sign the petition here .
HRH The Prince of Wales speaks on climate change to the European Parliament in Brussels  “I know there is much work to be done in many areas, but this evening I want to focus on the biggest single opportunity we have to combat climate change which can be started immediately and reap benefits fast. And that is the protection of the remaining, but rapidly dwindling rainforests of the world. I wonder how many of you are fully aware of the benefits – to all of us – if we could stop what is happening to them?
I think most people may be aware that rainforests are some of the most beautiful and mysterious habitats left in the world, richer in the number of plants and animals they support than any other. But much, much more important is the contribution that rainforests, and indeed forests in general, make to maintaining our climate at a level that supports our very existence. Ladies and gentlemen, the world’s forests need to be seen for what they are – giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast scale. Rainforests store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They help regulate our climate and sustain the lives of some of the poorest people on this Earth. And they do these things to a degree that is all but impossible to imagine. Amazonia’s forests help to store the largest body of flowing freshwater on the planet. The trees release 20 billion tonnes of it into the atmosphere every day. Rain from the forests of the Congo waters half of Africa.”
Cheptoo - The African Girls Hope Project Women and girls are by and large the main victims of repressive ancient traditions and cultures. Forced genital mutilation, honour killings and forced marriage are just a few painful examples which thousands are going through. Please help us defeat it!
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