Hours after Nobel Peace Price Laureate Al Gore pointed to the obstructionist role of the United States at the UN climate change conference, the US proposed new language that would swap binding emissions cuts for rich countries with a voluntary approach for all countries, according to Oxfam Australia.
Oxfam Australia today (12 December) welcomed many aspects of the new climate change course set for Australia by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his address to delegates at the opening of today’s UN Climate Change talks in Bali.
Delegates at the climate change negotiations in Bali have reached a key agreement that will set the course for how funds will be made available to poor countries to help them avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Oxfam Australia today urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to show world leaders the way and commit the nation to a global fund to provide the world’s poor with the resources necessary to adapt to the worst impacts of climate change as well as ratify the Kyoto Protocol at this week’s UN Bali Climate Change Conference.
Today, on World Aids Day, Oxfam Global Ambassador Annie Lennox is launching SING, a new charity single calling on women to ‘sing out’ around the issues of HIV and AIDS.
Oxfam releases a report on the increase in natural disaasters caused by climate change.
A combined agency report on the imapct that climate change is having and will have in the Asia-Pacific region.
Albert Clarke, a 73-year old endurance athlete, does not fit the stereotype. He is, after all, an Indigenous person and he is older than what an average Indigenous Australian is expected to reach in age.
Oxfam continues calls for Australian mining companies in the Phillipines to be investigated after allegations that they are causing fishkill on the island where the companies operate.
Oxfam Australia has welcomed Labor’s commitment to demonstrate leadership in providing clean drinking water and sanitation in the Asia-Pacific region.