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The world is getting close to the time when a global deal to secure a stable climate for future generations has to be struck, writes Oxfam Australia’s James Ensor.

It was amidst horrifying reports of child sexual abuse that the Northern Territory Emergency Response was announced two years ago this week.

The proposed Emissions Trading Scheme needs to be urgently amended if Australia is to play a leadership role at international climate negotiations, Oxfam Australia Executive Director Andrew Hewett said today.

Oxfam welcomed the Australian Government’s call for international aviation and shipping emissions to be part of an international climate deal yesterday, but warned that poor small island states, which depend on air and sea links, should be exempt from the schemes.

Two of Australia’s largest aid agencies said today their efforts to help more than 600,000 people affected by fighting in the Swat Valley in Pakistan are in jeopardy because of a lack of funding from wealthy governments and others around the world.

A new report launched today (Thursday 11 June) could break the deadlock at the heart of the UN climate talks currently underway in Bonn - who is going to cut emissions and who is going to pay.

Australia must not let the divergence of opinion over its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) interfere with its role in helping accelerate global action on climate change when countries meet from Monday 1 June for the next round of UN climate talks, in Bonn.

Thousands of lives are at risk in Sri Lanka because aid to refugees is being restricted by a government ban on aid agency vehicles entering the camps, and because of difficulties in securing access for staff, aid agency Oxfam said today.

International agency Oxfam said today that it has had to double its aid effort in Pakistan as the number of displaced people reached more than 2 million, making the crisis the greatest internal displacement of people in the country’s history.

Business leaders are joining the momentum to tackle climate change when they meet at an international summit in Copenhagen from Sunday.