Catholic international organisations facing up to climate change: COP20 position paper
This position paper underlines the need to ensure coherence and synergy among the various conventions and policy instruments connected to climate change, sustainable development, poverty eradication and disaster risk reduction (DRR), as part of a wider common frame work for resilience. It calls for coherence between climate action and disaster risk reduction, aligning goals and objectives of the frameworks for DRR after 2015 (Hyogo+) on the one hand, and climate change on the other, and enabling coherent programmes at international, national and local levels to enhance community resilience.
In this position paper, CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis, together representing 180 Catholic relief and development organisations, call for firm commitment from governments to put the poor at the centre of climate change policy, ahead of the COP20 United Nations conference on climate change from 1-12 December 2014 in Lima, Peru.