COLLABORATION

CARE is collaborating with governments and private sector institutions, as well as a wide range of civil society organisations to address the challenge of climate change. For example:

Private sector: In Brazil, CARE has joined forces with the private sector company Cantor CO2e to help the State of Piauí develop its policy framework for climate change. These policies address the urgent need to support community-based adaptation activities and the regulation of bio-fuels production to ensure it reduces rather than worsens poverty.

Governments: In Guatemala, CARE is collaborating with Del Valle University to implement the Mi Bosque (My Forest) project. This relationship has enabled the development of a methodology to measure carbon sequestration - the process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The methodology involves a combination of satellite imaging and on-the-ground validation by community members. By working hand-in-hand with local government authorities, the Mi Bosque project has done more than improve farm productivity, diversify incomes and reduce the risk of landslides. Indeed, it has created a culture of cooperation amongst local government authorities, improved their relations with communities and established the recurrent allocation of funds from public budgets to support agro-forestry activities.

In Indonesia, CARE helped draft a Presidential Decree promoting a more equitable suite of climate change policies. The Decree addressed national needs to train farmers (especially women farmers) in techniques that reduce their vulnerability to climate variability and change, help communities adapt to climate change, and introduce weather-based crop insurance for small-scale farmers.

NGOs and Research Institutions: CARE has also joined alliances (such as the Working Group on Development and Climate Change/"Up in Smoke Group" and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance) concerned with influencing and implementing international policy frameworks. Several CARE International members and country offices are also engaged in alliances focusing on national-level climate change policies (e.g. the Canadian Coalition for Climate Change and Development). In addition, CARE is a member of broad alliances (such as CONCORD, InterAction and the Danish 92-Group) that have begun to address climate change under their scope of work.

CARE is also actively collaborating with other institutions addressing the consequences of climate change, including the International Institute for Environment and Development; International Institute for Sustainable Development; International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute, Columbia University; U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Oxfam; the World Agro-forestry Centre (ICRAF) and World Wildlife Fund.