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A year in campaigning

23/06/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

The year 2009 was a year of intense activity on climate change in the run-up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen in December. Hopes were high for a binding deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and increase financial and technological aid for poor countries. Caritas Internationalis joined its ...

Climate change: Seeking climate justice

23/06/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

The harsh effects of climate change are already becoming a daily reality for poor communities inmany countries where Caritas works. Unpredictable or extreme weather is undermining the humanitarian and development work of Caritas and threatens to increase the number of emergencies in the future. Calling for a new global ethic The answer to the climate ...

1 in 6 go hungry

23/06/2010 Advocacy, Australia, Development, Europe, Food, Italy, Malnutrition, Oceania, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

World hunger reached an historic high in 2009 with over a billion people going without enough food every day. Malnutrition increased by 13 percent in Asia, 8 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean and 6 percent in Africa.

Food for thought in Zimbabwe

23/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, SDG, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

The acute humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe continued in 2009, with half of the population reliant on food aid to survive.

Climate challenge in Ethiopia (photo gallery)

16/06/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food by Caritas Communications

Bringing Solar Power to the People of Darfur

26/05/2010 Africa, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Food, Sudan by Caritas Communications

As climate change is heatedly debated by world leaders, communities in Darfur are finding sustainable solutions to water shortages in Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) Camps. The rainy season in South Darfur typically lasts five or six months of the year. For the remainder, the land is dry, arid and desolate. With the length of the ...

Time for climate justice at Copenhagen

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

Caritas members from around the world are travelling to Copenhagen to lobby governments at a key climate change meeting. The UN summit (called the UNFCCC) is set to agree targets for cutting the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. It will also set funding for poor communities to tackle the impact of extreme or ...

Caritas brings voices of poor to Copenhagen

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

Caritas members from around the world are in Copenhagen lobbying governments at a key climate change meeting. The UN summit (the UNFCCC) is set to agree targets for cutting the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. It will also set funding for poor communities to tackle the impact of extreme or unpredictable weather and ...

Preparing for the worst in Honduras

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Food, Honduras, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Reaching the communities of El Porvenir is no easy task. The steep, 8km climbing track is often impassable by vehicle during the storm season.

The road to climate justice after Copenhagen

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Denmark, Development, Europe, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events by Caritas Communications

By: Christine Campeau, Caritas Internationalis The Copenhagen Summit on climate change brought together 115 heads of state and governments. More than 40,000 people applied for accreditation. It was a grand but failed effort to reach a meaningful legally binding deal. Bishop Theotonius Gomes, President of Caritas Bangladesh said that the powerful nations felt morally bound ...