The climate change declaration made by world leaders at this weekend’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) showed there is still room for a legally binding agreement to be reached at the Copenhagen meeting in December, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
While 15 – 29 year-olds are often branded as the apathetic Generation Y, Oxfam Australia has seen the number of young people buying charitable gifts double since it started its Oxfam Unwrapped program in 2005.
Test how much you know about the future of our planet by playing the new interactive quiz – The Climate Challenge. Play it now.
Seventy per cent of Afghans surveyed see poverty and unemployment as the major cause of the conflict in their country, according to new research by international aid agency Oxfam and a group of Afghan organisations.
Members of the public are being challenged to test their climate change knowledge with a new online game launched by Oxfam today at www.theclimatechallenge.org.
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.
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. Even if you’re not in Melbourne, you can still get involved. Find out more.
Oxfam Australia needs teams of three to race around the streets of Melbourne to raise money for its humanitarian aid and development work around the world.
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.