UNFCCC COP17

Policy Position on ADAPTATION

For lasting adaptation solutions in a changing climate, an international climate change regime must place pro-poor and gender-equitable approaches at its core and provide sufficient funding for and prioritise the needs of the most vulnerable people. At COP17 in Durban, Parties must deliver on the action items in the Cancun Agreements to continue operationalising the Adaptation Framework.

UNFCCC COP17

Parties must agree on practical guidance that provides effective incentives for governments to make the safeguards operational, rather than accept weak wording at the level of broad principles in the interest of achieving an easy consensus. Such an outcome would impede progress and further delay national readiness actions for implementing safeguards.

CARE UNFCCC COP17 Brief

on GENDER

For successful climate change adaptation and mitigation actions, Parties at COP17 need to explicitly address gender equality and women’s empowerment, building on, and ensuring the implementation of, existing gender considerations in UNFCCC decisions agreed over the past 3 years. 

 - ADVOCACY PROGRAMMING

BRIEF: Southern Voices Capacity Building Programme: The programme aims to ensure that the selected CSOs and networks – through south-south and north-south alliances – increase their capacity for carrying out advocacy and policy monitoring activities, and for raising public awareness. This will help promote environmental integrity and sustainable development that benefits poor and vulnerable people.

Southern Voices Newsletter - http://climatecapacity.org/news/newsletter

Southern Voices on Climate Policy Choices - Analysis and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change - http://climatecapacity.org/resource-centre/international-report

Website - www.carecapacity.org

- GLOBAL NEGOTIATIONS / POLICY ARTICLES:

• 2011 Panama Climate Talks - Limited progress in UNFCCC Panama climate negotiations, but not enough to tackle the climate crisis
   

• Civil Society and the Integration of Climate Change Risks into Planning and Policy-making English / Spanish

By Nella Canales, Climate Change & Advocacy Advisor, CARE Peru

- ADVOCACY BRIEFS

• WWF/CARE USA Climate Advocacy Partnership: WWF/CARE Advocacy Partnership / Adaptation / REDD / Finance / Food Security

- REPORTS:

• Realising Rights, Protecting Forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation

English / French / Spanish
The report -- released by the Accra Caucus, of which CARE is a member -- highlights three critical components to protecting forests: full and effective participation; secured and equitable land rights; and community-based forest management. The Accra Caucus is a network of more than 100 northern and southern civil society organisations campaigning on forests and climate change.

• Pro-poor governance of global adaptation funds (2009)

It is imperative that the international agreement and framework for adaptation assistance to developing countries ensures that communities, populations and people most at risk and least equipped to manage the consequences receive the restitution they are due, either in the form of direct adaptation support or broader infrastructure, service and policy reforms that facilitate local adaptation efforts. This discussion paper - commissioned by CARE International, Germanwatch and Bread for the World - sets forth concrete, workable suggestions for pro-poor governance of international adaptation funding.

• www.carecapacity.org: Key messages for UNFCCC negotiators (2009)

Climate Change, Food Security and Hunger: Key Messages for UNFCCC Negotiators. Technical Paper of the IASC Task Force on Climate Change. Submitted by WFP, FAO, IFRC and OXFAM, as well as WVI, CARE, CARITAS, WHO and Save the Children. Climate change directly affects food security and nutrition. It undermines current efforts to protect the lives and livelihoods and end the suffering of the over 1 billion food insecure people and will increase the risk of hungerand malnutrition by an unprecedented scale within the next decades. This paper highlights some of the projected impacts of climate change on food security and summarizes the responses called for by several of the largest humanitarian and development organizations involved in the fight against hunger.

• Policy Brief/Testimonials: Climate‐related vulnerability and adaptive‐capacity in Ethiopia's Borana and Somali communities (2009) - Save the Children UK and CARE Ethiopia
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• Link to: Full Report

• Link to: Video: No Time to Recover