Monday’s UN World Food Summit in Rome (16-18th) could be a waste of time and money unless world leaders intervene now to salvage it. International agencies ActionAid and Oxfam say governments are at risk of throwing away a great chance to stop more than one billion people going hungry.
People from Australia and around the world will testify to the devastating impacts that climate change is already having on their lives at Australia’s first Climate Hearing, on Monday 23 November at the State Library in Melbourne at 6pm.
Hundreds of thousands of poor people will continue to pay with their lives if rich countries continue their delay tactics on reaching a global climate deal in Copenhagen, Oxfam Australia said today.
The new Afghan government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalising the police force, according to aid agencies working throughout Afghanistan.
Australia must distance itself and refuse to be a part of attempts by the US, Japan, Canada and the EU to drive down ambition in international climate negotiations in Barcelona this week or risk helping to undermine a global climate agreement, Oxfam Australia said today.
The world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries now face an impossible choice — to accept an agreement that fails to reduce the life-or-death risks they face, or to hold out for a safe and fair deal but risk walking away from Copenhagen empty-handed, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and other world leaders should use this G20 meeting to take urgent action to protect poor countries from the economic crisis that is forcing 100 people a minute into poverty, international aid and development agency Oxfam said today.
The Government’s proposal of offering developing countries a more flexible way to meet emissions reductions is a step towards removing one of the obstacles in the lead-up to the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, but fails to address the key sticking point of financing for developing countries.
A new Oxfam report today warns that recent gains in the fight against poverty will be reversed if world leaders raid existing aid budgets to find the funds to help poor countries fight the growing impact of climate change.
Oxfam Global Ambassador and Hollywood actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new online advertisement made by international aid agency Oxfam urging people to join the new "tck tck tck" climate change campaign.