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CARE is actively engaged in international climate change policy negotiations through its Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Netwo (PECCN). CARE's primary policy objectives are as follows:

 

 

Overall aims

 

Spectific policy objectives

 

Deep cuts in global emissions

consistent with the UNFCCC's

ultimate objective of avoiding

dangerous anthropogenic

interference with the climate

system.

A comprehensive post-2012 agreement (as outlined in the Bali
Action Plan) successfully negotiated by the end of CoP 15 in
2009 that includes:

 

• Collective emissions reductions targets likely toprevent more

than 2ºC warming vis-à-vis pre-industriallevels


• Quantified, legally binding targets for all Annex I countries

 

 

Adaptation funding mechanisms

meetthe special needs of very

poor, highly vulnerable people.

 

The international community commits substantial

resources, both through the UNFCCC and national/regional

mechanisms, to support adaptation to climate change

in poor countries.

 

Funding mechanisms mandate:


• Inclusive, transparent decision-making about how countries

will use the resources they receive


• Priority allocation of resources to especially poor, highly

vulnerable communities and social groups.

 

 

The Post-2012 Agreement

must include mandatory social

standards and safeguards

to ensure that REDD activities

are pro-poor.

 

• Do not lead to violations of human rights or in any

other way cause harm to poor and marginalised groups.


• Include mechanisms for equitable sharing of benefits

arising from REDD with, as well as within, indigenous

and local communities in developing countries.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CARE is also:

 

  • Advocating for the rights of people displaced and forced to migrate by the negative impacts of climate change.

  • Supporting a stronger commitment by the international community to invest in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management initiatives in poor countries experiencing an increase in extreme weather.

 

  • Developing programme-based learning platforms that can generate evidence-based advocacy materials.

  • Building networks and forging advocacy alliances.