The COP15 in Copenhagen (or “Brokenhagen”, as some like to call it now) is over. CARE is in no way happy with the results of this mega-event. This is why we will put even more effort in helping the poorest of the poor to adapt to a changing climate and get out of poverty.
Speaking from Copenhagen, Robert Glasser (Secretary General of CARE International), Geoffrey Dennis (National Director of CARE UK) and Niels Tofte (National Director of CARE Denmark share their view on climate change and how it will impact the work of CARE in the future. (more…)
Here is CARE’s Secretary General Robert Glasser giving a speech in Copenhagen downtown on yesterday’s humanitarian day. The day also highlighted that women and children in developing countries already spend hours every day fetching water. Climate change means that they will have to walk even further as wells dry up. To draw attention to this fact, the opening was followed by a youth solidarity event where Danish school girls carried carry water containers. They walked from Kongens Nytorv all the way to the Bella Centre – about 6 kilometres. Danish-Zambian singer Karen Mukupa sent the girls off with a song.
Ulrich Bang, CARE International Sustainable Energy Advisor in Ghana, explains the importance of developing and implementing sustainable and poverty-related energy projects.
Adolphine Byayuwa Muley is one of CARE’s experts from the south. She is the founder of UEFA, a non-profit organisation working to assist marginalised and indigenous groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hear her talk about her advocacy work in Copenhagen on behalf of those groups in the following video:
Sofia Sprechmann, deputy director for CARE Latin-America and the Caribbean, talks about the women and climate change. Women make up 70 percent of the global poor and will be heavily affected by climate change.
Raja Jarrah, CARE International Climate Change Advisor on REDD, explains REDD, and how CARE is working to influence the negotiations in this area so that it specifically benefits poor and marginalized people. REDD will be the focus of a workshop at COP this evening from 18:15-19:45.
ADVOCACY: Poul Erik Lauridsen, CARE International’s Climate Change Advocacy Coordinator, explains what CARE will be doing in the next two weeks at COP15 to advocate for a fair, ambitious and binding Agreement.
At COP 15, CARE International will work towards mobilizing the much needed political will to seal a fair, ambitious and binding deal in Copenhagen that puts especially vulnerable people at the centre of the world’s response to climate change.
Such a deal should include a commitment to deep cuts in emissions and strong adaptation and REDD provisions. It much also address the needs and rights of especially vulnerable people and ensure their active and meaningful participation at all levels of decision-making.
See an introduction to the positions of CARE in this video:
