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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 ...

Who’s under your Carbon footprint?

13/10/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Food, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

By Kathy Brown, Catholic Charities USA The news from the United States on passing legislation on climate change that would protect the poor throughout the world is not good. Throughout the past year, key Senators have been asked to include and strengthen provisions in climate legislation that would protect poor and vulnerable people, in our ...

Hunger in Niger: Food for a famished nation

28/07/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

Nigeriens ran out of food months ago, now the situation is desperate. Half of the people in this landlocked West African nation now don’t have enough to eat. People are eating leaves and livestock feed in order to survive. While hunger in Niger is nothing new, this year is particularly bad. Rains failed last year ...

Niger: Hunger Pains A Nation

28/07/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, Niger by Caritas Communications

By Lane Hartill, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Habsu Boubacar has got used to being hungry. The burning stomach, the blurred vision, the joint pain: Habsu has learned how to work through aches, how to force herself to go on. Growing up in Toudoun Jaka, a sand-blasted village full of skeletal cattle and bone-thin dogs that ...

Recognizing the problem of climate change at Caritas Belgium

30/06/2010 Advocacy, Belgium, Climate Change, Europe, Food by Caritas Communications

One cannot overemphasize the fact that the environmental challenge is the greatest global challenge humanity has ever confronted - one that concerns the very existence of the civilization and all ecosystems of the earth.

Heartbreaking story in the Gulf of Mexico

30/06/2010 Climate Change, Food, Latin America, Mexico by Caritas Communications

By Kathy Brown, CCUSA American Caritas member Catholic Charities agencies in Louisiana continue to reach out to those impacted by the environmental disaster still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. In New Orleans, Catholic Charities has helped over 1,500 fishermen hit by oil spill in 5 relief centers providing food and food vouchers, baby items, ...

Cambodia threatened by climate change

30/06/2010 Advocacy, Asia, Cambodia, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Communications

On 1 June Caritas along with the Ministry or the Environment and other agencies such as UNDP and Oxfam organised a seminar on climate change in the capital Phonm Penn. About 100 people, including environmentalist, members of government institutions, NGOs and benefactors attended the seminar aimed at discussing strategies to deal with climate change. Most ...

Fight climate change in Congo to prevent violence

30/06/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Congo, Food by Caritas Communications

Climate change may not appear as a priority concern in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country devastated by years of war.

Going green

30/06/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Food by Caritas Communications

At a recent meeting of the Caritas Internationalis Climate Justice Reference Group there was a lively discussion about the “greening” of our offices. We quickly became aware that we are not only talking about environmental issues and the impact they have on the people we work with but we are also personally trying to do ...