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Climate change and disasters in Mexico

24/01/2011 Advocacy, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

By Salvador Urteaga, Consultant Emergency for Caritas Mexico Mexicans have recently experienced larger and more frequent natural disasters previously unknown in our history. The list includes hurricanes, heavy rains, landslides and floods in some regions and water scarcity in others. The most disadvantaged peoples are being affected the hardest. Aside from those living in rural ...

Catholic Climate Ambassadors in USA

24/01/2011 Advocacy, Climate Change, Food, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

By Kathy Brown, Regional Coordinator, Caritas North America In December, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change trained their first “Catholic Climate Ambassadors”. They are leaders from around the country who will reach out, educate and empower people in their local dioceses, parishes, schools, and religious communities to be engaged in this critical issue. They will ...

Research project will put science at heart of climate change response

24/01/2011 Advocacy, Climate Change, Europe, Food, United Kingdom by Caritas Communications

By CAFOD Caritas England and Wales (CAFOD) is working in partnership with University College London, one of the UK’s top universities to be able to better respond to climate change. They’re trying to see the threats climate change poses in the context of other hazards. Melanie Duncan is leading the research at the university. Since ...

Seeing the wood for the trees in Uganda

24/01/2011 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Food, Uganda by Caritas Communications

Uganda is already experiencing out of season flooding in the eastern region which destroyed crops and spread disease, heat waves, reduction in water levels, unpredictable rain, and prolonged drought in many parts of the country.

Good news on climate justice from Cancun

24/11/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

The Cancun summit has not delivered climate justice for poor countries, but it has produced a way forward for a future deal to safeguard the lives of the poor and future generations. The pressure will continue on governments to produce a legally binding deal in Durban South Africa next December. Climate justice will mean deep ...

Making a million people climate-proof

13/10/2010 Climate Change, Europe, Food, Netherlands by Caritas Communications

By Sasja Kamil, Cordaid (Caritas Netherlands) Poor communities are by far the most vulnerable to the impacts of natural hazards, climate change and ecosystem degradation. It damages their livelihoods and erodes their resilience. Supporting them requires teamwork. For Cordaid, this collaboration came in the form of the Partners for Resilience – an alliance consisting of ...

Flooding hits poor hardest in Pakistan

13/10/2010 Asia, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Food, Pakistan by Caritas Communications

By Mumtaz Bashir Bhatti, Caritas Pakistan Floods in Pakistan have displaced millions of people, destroyed billions of rupees worth of houses, killed many and washed away all belongings in rural communities from North to South. Is this what global warming looks like? Many scientists think it is. If it was, it is very clear that ...

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand on climate change in rural Nepal

13/10/2010 Advocacy, Agriculture, Asia, Climate Change, Food, Nepal, New Zealand, Oceania by Caritas Communications

by Martin de Jong, Caritas New Zealand Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Caritas Nepal have recently completed production of a 15-minute video looking at climate change in rural Nepal. The video will provide a core resource for Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand’s programme in schools for Lent 2011, and is also expected to interest a wider ...

Caritas Mexico gets ready for climate summit

13/10/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

With Climate talks scheduled for December in Cancun, Caritas Mexico is keeping busy in their planning to raise awareness. Bishop Gustavo Rodriguez Vega, the President of Caritas Mexicana was part of the Caritas Internationalis delegation last year at the climate talks in Copenhagen and is eager to mobilize civil society organisations and the Church in ...

Brazil’s rainforest in danger

13/10/2010 Brazil, Climate Change, Food, Latin America by Caritas Communications

By Carlos García Paret, a climate activist from the Brazilian Amazon The situation in Brazil regarding climate change is quite different from that in industrialised nations with higher emissions, such as China, the USA and the EU. As the world’s fourth highest producer of greenhouse gases, 50 percent of Brazil’s emissions derive from deforestation and ...