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Community-Based Adaptation in the Global Climate Change Response

By Angie Dazé, Regional Climate Change Coordinator, West and Southern Africa, CARE International, and Christina Chan, Senior Policy Analyst, CARE USA

The world’s poorest people are least responsible for causing climate change; yet, they will bear the brunt of its negative consequences. One of the biggest challenges facing negotiators of the post-2012 agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is ensuring not only that sufficient funds are available to support adaptation in vulnerable developing countries, but also that those funds are used effectively and reach the people who need them most.

Individual and Political Action on Climate Change

The issue of human-caused, or anthropogenic, climate change (global warming) is becoming a central focus of the Green movement. As illustrated by the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize being jointly awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the issue is building an increasing level of mainstream interest. Around the world, there is an increasing awareness of the importance of climate change as a factor in a range of issues. Many environmental, economic and social issues find common ground in the form of climate change. Individual and political action on climate change can take many forms, most of which have the ultimate goal of limiting and/or reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Business Action on Climate Change

Business action on climate change includes a range of activities relating to combatting global warming, and to influencing political decisions on global-warming-related regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Major multinationals have played and to some extent continue to play a significant role in the politics of global warming, especially in the United States, through lobbying of government and funding of global warming skeptics. Business also plays a key role in the mitigation of global warming, through decisions to invest in researching and implementing new energy technologies and energy efficiency measures.

African environment ministers reach significant climate change accord – UN

29 May 2009 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced a landmark agreement reached by over 30 African ministers to mainstream climate change adaptation measures into national and regional development plans, policies and strategies.

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