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.
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
Momentum is building for gender equity as today more than one hundred women from Asia and around the world voiced a call for gender justice to be included in the next international climate agreement. The demonstration took place outside the current
Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before. Climate
GENEVA & NAIROBI (August 22, 2008) – India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia are among the pivotal states identified as climate change “hotspots”-- countries particularly vulnerable to the increase in extreme drought, flooding, and cyclones expected in the coming decades—according to a new report commissioned by humanitarian relief agency CARE International and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
GENEVA (8 March, 2008) – In poor communities around the world, natural disasters disproportionately affect women. When disasters strike, women typically have less cash savings, lower levels of education and smaller social networks to draw upon than men.
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