Environment and climate change
Our policy work is focussed on ensuring the UK is leading at home and internationally on action to cut greenhouse gas emissions to the level demanded by science and providing poorer countries with resources they need to cope with climate change impacts and build sustainable, pro-poor development paths.
Key areas of our policy work include:
- Ensuring the UK government provides its fair share of climate finance post 2015, scaling up to meet the $100 billion total annually by 2020 promised to poorer countries for climate action, in particular through championing new sources of public finance such as carbon pricing of shipping.
- Ensuring the UK government supports access to sustainable, affordable and modern energy for poor men and women and not energy investments that do not reduce poverty or undermine environmental integrity.
- Ensuring the UK & EU partners champion a fair and legally binding global deal to cut emissions that is agreed by 2015, including greater action at EU level (moving to an emissions cut of at least 30% domestic by 2020), working with our European network CIDSE.
Policy and research documents on climate change and environment
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The private sector and climate change adaptation (225 kB)
This working paper looks at adaptation projects financed through the World Bank’s Pilot Programme on Climate Resilience (PPCR) involving private sector actors, in the context of current debates around the role of private sector in financing climate action.
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Hyogo framework position paper (302 kB)
CAFOD works at local, national and international level to strengthen the world’s poorest communities in the face of disasters and emergencies. The current international agreement and framework for disaster risk reduction, the Hyogo Framework for Action, will end in 2015. Now is the time to influence the next framework. We’re calling for an international agreement led by the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable. We’ll be taking this position paper to the Global Platform for Risk Reduction in May.
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Channeling climate finance via private sector actors (279 kB)
This paper assesses what the evidence to date shows on the risks and benefits of using private sector instruments to channel climate finance, in the context of the current debate around the role of the private sector in the Green Climate Fund and wider discussions among donors.
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Report: Quick off the Blocks (1 MB)
UK adaptation finance and integrated planning
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Including maritime transport emissions in the EU's greenhouse gas reduction commitment (245 kB)
CAFOD Submission to the UK House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee Inquiry: The EU Emissions Trading System.
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Fair Finance Briefing (7 MB)
Ensuring developing countries benefit from carbon pricing of international transport.
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Climate change and conflict (162 kB)
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Climate for Justice: International Public Climate Finance Policy Position (80 kB)
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Business as unusual (676 kB)
Using climate finance to give power back to the poor
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Climate Justice: CAFOD's Durban analysis (330 kB)
An analysis of the Durban Climate talks: what was achieved; what are the impliactions
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