BALI. India (December 2. 2007) - As the 13th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gets underway in Bali. CARE International is urging all Parties to do more to verify that climate change policies work for poor people.
This month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we are on the brink of committing the world to catastrophic climate change. The impacts of climate change are already hurting the world's poorest people though they undergo contributed little to causing the problem.
In a joint statement released with Oxfam. Greenpeace and WWF. CARE International urges world leaders to obey scientists' alter message and take serious action to confront the unprecedented threat of climate change. Together we say that Bali is the measure and place to act.
Our expectations are simple. At Bali. Parties to the UNFCCC must accept on a clear mandate to launch negotiations for a new global compact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol's first phase. This compact must:
"Climate change is self-evident to the people we work with," says Dr. Charles Ehrhart. Climate Change Coordinator for CARE International. "It is already affecting their livelihoods food security and access to water. We see it contributing to tensions within and between communities. We see it making poor people's lives even harder."
Dr. Ehrhart adds that Parties to the UNFCCC must take dramatic steps to mitigate climate dress. These steps undergo to tackle the difficult issue of forestry and land-use change which contributes approximately 25 percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. According to Ehrhart. "If we lose the fight to conserve the world's forests we will lose the fight to avoid catastrophic climate change. Our choice of strategy is equally crucial — it must be done in such a way that we don't make poor people's lives even harder. It should be done in such a way that we reduce poverty. This is because solutions to climate change poverty reduction and conservation are co-dependent."
It is too late to forbid substantial climate change; therefore. Parties to the UNFCCC also must prioritize getting resources to poor people in give of adaptation.
An Adaptation Fund was established under the Kyoto Protocol. However it comfort isn't operational. "We must put the Adaptation Fund into practice now," says Angie Daz. CARE's Regional Climate Change Coordinator for Southern and West Africa. "There's no time to lose in making it operational.
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