Oxfam Australia today welcomed Australia’s commitment to the Fast Start Finance Fund as an important step towards helping developing countries adapt to the devastating impacts of climate change but said climate finance should not come out of the existing international aid budget.
The revenue the extractives sector generates each year in poor countries is far greater than official aid flows and could see major improvements within countries if a portion was directed towards essential services for local people.
As the evening light rapidly faded, a group of children stood silently posing with wide eyes staring intently into my camera lens.
I was on my second trip with the international agency Oxfam as a Global Ambassador, to see for myself the devastating impact that climate change is already having on some of the world’s poorest places. Last year I traveled to Peru, my mother’s native country, to take photographs that were exhibited at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, which I also attended.
Oxfam Australia is launching its own 12 days of Christmas online campaign to highlight the gift of giving to those less fortunate around the world.
While in South Western Bangladesh last week, I watched as a woman named Shahana sat cross-legged on the ground with thirty members of her community noting down the many ways changing weather patterns were impacting their lives.
United Nations Climate Change Conference to begin in Cancun, Mexico today
Oxfam Unwrapped is on the search to find Oxfam Australia’s next top animal to help in the fight against poverty and injustice. You can vote for your favourite contestant by visiting the Oxfam Unwrapped website.
Queenslanders will get the chance to participate in one of the world’s toughest charity challenges on home ground with the announcement today that Brisbane will be the location for a new Oxfam Trailwalker event in 2011.
An Oxfam Australia initiative to develop the next generation of humanitarian leaders will see 300 young people from 98 countries converge on New Delhi, India, today to share their experiences of how to overcome poverty and social injustice at the OIYP Kaleidoscope 2010 event.
At a special ceremony in Melbourne today, President Jose Ramos-Horta presented the Insignia Da Ordem De Timor-Leste to David Scott AO in recognition of his commitment and contribution to the people of Timor-Leste.