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As global warming continues at an alarming rate, communities around the world are already suffering from unprecedented losses as a result of extreme weather and slow onset climate-related disasters. With no sign of the collective global action required to tackle the climate crisis, the sheer scale of climate impacts which cannot be adapted to are only set to get worse. Following last year's COP18 decision to consider the establishment of an international mechanism to address climate change loss and damage in Warsaw, a new joint report from CARE International, ActionAid and WWF revisits the critical arguments in favour of such a mechanism and proposes a suggested framework for its creation under the UNFCCC, helping to bring the concept to life.
Climate change is real and it is happening now. As the latest instalment of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report confirms with 95% certainty, global temperatures are increasing, sea-level rise is accelerating, oceans are warming and acidifying, glaciers and Arctic sea ice are in decline and rainfall patterns are changing, all as a result of human- caused climate change.
Yet, despite clear scientific evidence about the growing scale and pace of climate change, the exploration for and burning of fossil fuels continues uncurbed. Current levels of concerted global action to tackle emissions and help people adapt to climate impacts still fall far short of what is required. This expectations paper presents CARE International's demands for the 2013 climate talks in Warsaw.
 Joto Afrika is a series of briefings and resources about adapting to climate change in sub-saharan Africa. It helps people understand the issues, constraints and opportunities that poor people face in adapting to climate change and escaping poverty.
Communicating climate information, in ways that users can understand and apply is a critical resource to support effective adaptation to climate change. This latest Joto Afrika issue (June 2013) shows how a range of programmes in Kenya, Niger and Ghana are developing approaches to incorporating communication of climate information into their work with farmers and pastoralists in climate vulnerable areas. This issue is also available in French.
The December 2012 special issue looks at the experiences of communities who are adapting to a changing climate in Mozambique, Kenya, Niger and Ghana and considers a range of new and innovative approaches. These include farmer field schools in Mozambique, Community Adaptation Action Planning in Niger, the role of Community Monitors in adaptation in Ghana and women's voices on vulnerability, resilience and climate change.
The aim of this report is to highlight the pressing issue of climate change loss and damage and the urgent
action required of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its parties to address it. It is aimed first and foremost at UNFCCC negotiators and at the politicians and policymakers who will determine negotiating positions for their countries. However, the report is also useful for other actors and agencies working on and around the issue of climate change and who are concerned about our common future.
This report highlights how sustainable development solutions coming out of the Rio+20 Summit must fully address equity and resilience, gender equality, food security and climate change.It highlights that the world’s poorest people are increasingly bearing the consequences of unsustainable development; and explains that to truly deliver upon sustainable development, any new development path must focus on ensuring equity and building resilience within the global economy, within countries and within local communities.
Related Open Editorial by Kit Vaughan, CARE International Climate Change Advocacy Coordinator:
Related Human Interest Stories:
- Ethnic minorities in Vietnam’s northern mountains act on their dreams for a more sustainable future - English
Climate change will inflict devastating damage to land, property, ecosystems and human life. Yet loss and damage from climate impacts gets far less attention than it deserves from climate negotiators and politicians.This paper contextualises issues around loss and damage as a result of climate change and demonstrates the urgent necessity for a range of approaches to address it through scaled up adaptation and mitigation measures. Joint Report by CARE, Germanwatch, ActionAid and WWF.
Related Open Editorial by Kit Vaughan, CARE International Climate Change Advocacy Coordinator:
Related Human Interest Stories on loss & damage:
- Kadiza Begum works with CARE to lift herself out of poverty - English
- Pumpkin production helps people remain in local area despite flooding; erosion - English
SOUTHERN VOICES REPORT
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 CARE and climate change brochure - English/ French - Read about CARE International's strategic response to climate change, including our focus on: global policy engagement, adaptation, making carbon finance work for poor and marginalised people, and organisational change. We emphasise social justice, gender equality and
empowerment in everything we do.
Adaptation and Food Security - English / French / Spanish
Food insecurity is a growing concern throughout the developing world, particularly for poor women and children. CARE understands that achieving food security for all will require a coordinated effort that incorporates preventive, promotional, protective and transformative measures. This brief outlines CARE’s understanding of the challenge and our response.
Vulnerability to climate change is determined, in large part, by people's adaptive capacity. A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or even the same household – equally because some have greater capacity than others to manage the crisis. This working brief looks at why gender is central to CARE's understanding of and response to the impacts of climate change.
CARE is implementing Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) projects that target the world's most vulnerable populations and integrating climate change into our ongoing development work. This working brief summarises CARE's two-track approach to adaptation and explains why we think both are critical to meeting the global climate change challenge.
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Adaptation, Gender and Women's Empowerment - 
What is adaptation to climate change? -
Waiting for the water to come: Poverty reduction in times of global climate change 
CARE Brasil has published in partnership with Fundação Demócrito Rocha three daily supplements on climate change and local development in semi-arid regions of Northeast Brasil. These supplements have been distributed by the regional newspaper O Povo to 35,000 direct readers, reaching out to some 100,000 people, as part of CARE Brasil efforts to raise awareness and mobilize public opinion on state-level at Ceará, one of the most affected states by climate change.
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