No excuse for inaction: CARE International’s demands for the 2013 UN climate talks in Warsaw, Poland
In this expectations paper, climate change adaptation, loss and damage and links to emergencies and disaster risk reduction is the first of CARE's priorities in the context of climate change. It calls for the multiple processes that are due to be agreed in 2015, namely the legally-binding agreement to be delivered at COP 21 in Paris in 2015, the post-2015 development framework and the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) successor, to mutually reinforce each other, supporting coordination and raising ambition, using the need to build the resilience of the poorest to tackle the impacts of climate change as a key element.
Among CARE's key demands in the area of loss and damage regarding the continued loss and damage work programme, the paper calls for identifying ways of integrating loss and damage aspects in other UNFCCC processes and in close coordination with the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of the UNISDR – the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (such as National Adaptation Plans, National Communications, National Disaster Reduction Strategies etc.).
The paper also argues that successful adaptation requires complementary actions that cut across traditional sectors and disciplines leading to enhanced disaster risk reduction, climate-resilient livelihoods and sustainable natural resource management and advocates for ensuring that adaptation efforts go beyond stand-alone projects and include policies and actions that reduce the underlying causes of vulnerability and disaster risk and build adaptive capacity.