If the Rudd Government accepts Professor Ross Garnaut’s climate change advice Australia will fall behind much of the developed world in greenhouse gas reduction, the Make Poverty History coalition said today.
Today’s high level international meeting on aid effectiveness is an important opportunity to make aid work better for poor people, International aid agency Oxfam said today.
Oxfam Australia welcomed the Rudd Government’s announcement of $14.8 million to help vulnerable Pacific countries adapt to the effects of climate change, but warned that the government’s contribution would need to increase to at least $300 million annually to tackle the rapidly escalating problem around the world.
Learn how climate change is affecting communities in Africa and find out how to contribute to the solution at a Make Poverty History Climate Change Forum – An African Story on Climate Change, on Thursday 11 September.
Banks may not be meeting their obligations to respect human rights and could be increasing the hardships faced by some of the world’s poorest, according to Oxfam Australia.
The Close the Gap coalition today welcomed Victorian Premier John Brumby’s public commitment to end Aboriginal health inequality in Victoria.
International aid agency Oxfam has produced a blueprint for Australia’s new engagement with Pacific nations, as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd heads to Niue this week for the Pacific Islands Forum.
Oxfam Australia welcomes the Government’s announcement today of a pilot seasonal scheme for Pacific workers.
Oxfam today welcomed the decision by the Australian Competition Consumer Commission to reject, for a second time, the tired and purposely misleading claims made by the Institute of Public Affairs that Fair Trade is not helping poor people.
The breakdown in trade talks in Geneva would leave the world’s poorest people increasingly vulnerable at a time already plagued with great uncertainty around food and fuel prices, international aid agency Oxfam said today.