The 2021 Straight Talk Summit has been postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and challenges around moving the event online. Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said while this meant the event couldn’t proceed in 2021, plans were afoot to reschedule the summit to commence in the first half of next year. Border restrictions as […]
Footprints of poorest 50% set to remain well below this limit The carbon footprints of the richest 1% of people on Earth is set to be 30 times greater than the level compatible with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement in 2030, according to new research out today. It comes as delegates grapple with […]
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain reacts to the Australian Government’s COP26 announcement on climate finance: “The Australian Government’s lack of ambition at COP26 is gravely disappointing. Without a credible 2030 target, we have no way to prove our commitment to doing our fair share to limit catastrophic warming. And critically, our contributions to support […]
In response to the Australian Government’s announcement of its updated climate change policy, Oxfam Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said: “As the Liberal and National parties have argued over this long-term goal, the rest of the world has moved on. Other wealthy countries have not only increased their ambitions for 2030, but dramatically boosted their […]
Australia has only delivered 6% of the 60 million vaccines pledged through the COVAX initiative. Developing countries have been hit with an endless tide of inadequate gestures and broken promises from rich countries and pharmaceutical companies, who are failing to deliver billions of doses they promised while blocking the real solutions to vaccine inequality, according […]
Australia should immediately double its climate finance to $3 billion over five years to help ensure at-risk countries can adapt to climate change impacts, leading groups have urged ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. In a new report, Fairer Futures, an alliance of groups led by Oxfam Australia and ActionAid […]
Yemenis are battling a third wave of COVID, which threatens 99% of the population who are unvaccinated, Oxfam said today. Recorded cases of COVID have tripled and the death rate has risen by more than fivefold (420%) in the last month. Excluded from these figures are countless undiagnosed deaths of people in their homes due […]
Wealthy nations are expected to fall up to USD$75 billion short of fulfilling their long-standing pledge to mobilize $100 billion each year from 2020 to 2025 to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to the dangerous effects of climate change and reduce their emissions, according to estimates by Oxfam today. This analysis comes ahead of […]
Moderna, BioNTech, and Pfizer are reaping astronomical and unconscionable profits due to their monopolies of mRNA COVID vaccines — upwards of 69% profit margins in the case of Moderna and BioNTech — while Moderna and Pfizer are also paying little in taxes, campaigners from the People’s Vaccine Alliance said today. Thanks to their patent monopolies […]
Oxfam Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of nine members to its Board of Directors. Oxfam Australia Board Chair Dr Judith Slocombe thanked all applicants in a highly competitive expression of interest process across Australia that attracted about 140 candidates and had been guided by Oxfam Australia’s commitment to promoting inclusion and diversity. “The […]