Climate negotiations need to move much faster if a global deal is to be secured in time for the crucial December deadline agreed by all the world’s countries. Negotiators at UN talks in Bonn in Germany from 1st to 12th June will debate the draft text of a global deal for the first time
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3 July 2009
The G8 Summit is an important opportunity to give action on climate change a huge political boost. G8 countries created the climate crisis and they have the financial resources to tackle it.
17 June 2009
Climate change in Malawi is pushing people further into poverty and women are suffering most, according to our new report (Wed June 17).
12 June 2009
Rich countries' inertia is sabotaging a climate deal and abandoning millions of the worlds poorest people to a desperate future said Oxfam on the final day of international climate talks in Bonn today.
11 June 2009
Rich countries have a ’double duty’ to cut emissions at home and to help fund emissions reductions in poor countries in order to get a fair and safe climate deal, according to a new report by international agency, Oxfam today.
8 June 2009
In a letter addressed to G8 finance ministers meeting in Lecce, Italy on 12 and 13 June, we're calling for an immediate injection of $2bn from rich countries to help the world's poorest countries get national climate adaptation strategies off the ground.
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21 May 2009
An Oxfam Research Report, by Jonas Meckling, Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
21 May 2009
In six years time the number of people affected by climatic crises is projected to rise by 54 per cent to 375 million people.
A new Oxfam research shows that by 2015 the average number of people affected each year by climate-related disasters could increase by over 50 per cent to 375 million.
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