![Refugees gather at a makeshift camp near Kibati, 12 km north of the provincial capital of Goma, October 29, 2008 [REUTERS/Stringer, courtesy www.alertnet.org]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/dr-congo/images/refugees-who-fled-fighting/934156-2-eng-GB/refugees-who-fled-fighting_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![More than 700 campaigners rallied before delivering anti-poverty messages to every EU embassy in London [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/trade_justice_campaign_images/embassy_bus/199633-2-eng-GB/embassy_bus_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Fatna (right) brings home wood that she and some neighbours have harvested from outside the camp in Kubum, south Darfur [Paul Jeffery/ACT/Caritas]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/sudan/images/fatna-right-brings-home-wood/247664-2-eng-GB/fatna-right-brings-home-wood_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
![Niccollette and Shrirvanie film the aftermath of the Guyanan floods, with support from CAFOD partner Guyana Human Rights Association [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/what-we-do/communications/images/after-guyana-floods/679742-1-eng-GB/after-guyana-floods_0column50_04space_landscape.jpg)
Climate change
Viewed through a poverty-reduction lens, the lion's share of responsibility for tackling climate change should lie with rich nations
CAFOD Climate Change Policy (403.50 kB)
This paper sets out the Church's response to climate change based on the foundational principles of Catholic social teaching, and sets out the challenges for governments, donors, business, NGOs and individuals. It explains what action CAFOD is taking to respond to climate change (July 2008).
![Rice farmer Rodrigo Costanilla, father of seven, farms one hectare, rented from a land-owning family, and says rice is his livelihood [Annie Bungeroth]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/asia/philippines/rodrigo_costanilla_rice_farmer/44653-2-eng-GB/rodrigo_costanilla_rice_farmer_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific (1.89 MB)
A new multi-agency report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development tackles the threat from climate change to human development and the environment – with a foreword by Dr R.K. Pachauri.
It states that, without immediate action, global warming is set to reverse decades of social and economic progress across Asia, home to more than 60 per cent of the world’s population
![A girl stands in front of empty granaries at the village of Tangaba in northwestern Niger, where inhabitants ate leaves and grass to survive [Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly, courtesy www.alertnet.org]](/var/storage/images/images/niger/empty_granaries/48735-3-eng-GB/empty_granaries_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
CAFOD submission to Climate Change Bill consultation (21.96 kB)
CAFOD's submission to DEFRA regarding the Climate Change Bill
![Reducing vulnerability to drought: Cambodian community members work together to improve the water supply to their village [Development Partnership in Action]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/campaign_images/stop_climate_chaos_campaign_images/cambodians_build_canal/232641-2-eng-GB/cambodians_build_canal_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg)
The environment has been heavily exploited by a global increase in population and consumer demand, leaving it more fragile than ever before |
 Gordon: Call time on global greed
As G20 leaders discuss the global financial system, Gordon Brown must "call time" on global greed at the heart of the crisis |
 Climate change department "not enough" CAFOD welcomes the government's decision to set up a new energy and climate change department, but says it is not enough without "courageous" action to back it up |
