News type: Press release

The world leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to close the negotiations on a climate agreement. But the status of the negotiations is messy and a fair deal seems to be out of reach unless leaders take action.

COPENHAGEN (December 13, 2009) – While the World is closely watching negotiations on finance and emissions reductions poor people are at risk of losing out in the Copenhagen Climate Deal. “In the negotiation text the term ‘vulnerable people’ is still written in brackets.

COPENHAGEN (December 11, 2009) – A much-hoped-for agreement to protect natural forests – and halt the 15 percent of carbon emissions that come from deforestation - is showing signs of unravelling mid way through the U.N. Climate Change Conference, CARE lamented Friday.

COPENHAGEN (December 11, 2009) – ‘CARE is disappointed that the financing put forward by the EU today on short term funding is not new and additional to existing development aid. We had hoped that the EU would be a leader in Copenhagen.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (December 9, 2009) – Failing to put the interests and rights of people first will undermine efforts to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and squander the real opportunity that exists for these efforts to also contribute to poverty reduction and forest conservation goals. A new set of global standards released at the Copenhagen climate change conference today directly tackles this concern.

COPENHAGEN (December 4, 2009) – Just three days before climate change treaty negotiations start in Copenhagen, advocates from the poverty-fighting group CARE are imploring delegates not to forget the poorest and most vulnerable people around the world.

AFGHANISTAN (November 23, 2009) – Today CARE International, the Government of Afghanistan and the World Bank released Knowledge on Fire: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan, a groundbreaking study on violence against education in Afghanistan, looking at the factors that increase the risk of attack, and steps that can be taken to reduce the risk for students, schools and their staff.

While delegates spent the past ten days negotiating for an international climate change agreement at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bangkok

A week after Typhoon Ketsana tore through South- East Asia, a deadly outbreak of disease is a potential threat for those who are already affected by the disaster.