UN Climate Change Summit 2011, Durban (South Africa)

The Cost of Extreme Weather: If we don't act on climate change, the bill for dealing with extreme weather may be even higher.

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At the start of the second week of UN climate negotiations in Qatar, young activists from around the world joined with Oxfam to call for countries to adopt a Financial Transaction Tax or‘Robin Hood’ tax to raise money to tackle climate change.

Twelve EU Member States are set to implement the tax next year, including Germany, France and Italy. On 4 December, EU finance ministers will meet in Brussels where they have a chance to discuss how much revenue from the tax could go towards investing in low-carbon development and supporting poor countries as they adapt to the effects of climate change.

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Photo: Richard Casson / Oxfam

At the start of the second week of UN climate negotiations in Qatar, young activists from around the world joined with Oxfam to call for countries to adopt a Financial Transaction Tax or‘Robin Hood’ tax to raise money to tackle climate change.

Twelve EU Member States are set to implement the tax next year, including Germany, France and Italy. On 4 December, EU finance ministers will meet in Brussels where they have a chance to discuss how much revenue from the tax could go towards investing in low-carbon development and supporting poor countries as they adapt to the effects of climate change.

Join the Robin Hood Tax Campaign

Photo: Richard Casson / Oxfam

At the start of the second week of UN climate negotiations in Qatar, young activists from around the world joined with Oxfam to call for countries to adopt a Financial Transaction Tax or‘Robin Hood’ tax to raise money to tackle climate change.

Twelve EU Member States are set to implement the tax next year, including Germany, France and Italy. On 4 December, EU finance ministers will meet in Brussels where they have a chance to discuss how much revenue from the tax could go towards investing in low-carbon development and supporting poor countries as they adapt to the effects of climate change.

Join the Robin Hood Tax Campaign

Photo: Richard Casson / Oxfam

An historic moment -- Qatar's first ever rally against climate change.

Find out more about the impact of climate change on the world's poorest people atwww.oxfam.org/en/grow/issues/climate-change

Or you can read more about Oxfam's work at the 2012 UN climate conference in Qatar on our blog atblogs.oxfam.org/en/blogs/grow/tags/2301

Credit: Richard Casson / Oxfam

An historic moment -- Qatar's first ever rally against climate change.

Find out more about the impact of climate change on the world's poorest people atwww.oxfam.org/en/grow/issues/climate-change

Or you can read more about Oxfam's work at the 2012 UN climate conference in Qatar on our blog atblogs.oxfam.org/en/blogs/grow/tags/2301

Credit: Richard Casson / Oxfam

An historic moment -- Qatar's first ever rally against climate change.

Find out more about the impact of climate change on the world's poorest people atwww.oxfam.org/en/grow/issues/climate-change

Or you can read more about Oxfam's work at the 2012 UN climate conference in Qatar on our blog atblogs.oxfam.org/en/blogs/grow/tags/2301

Credit: Richard Casson / Oxfam

An historic moment -- Qatar's first ever rally against climate change.

Find out more about the impact of climate change on the world's poorest people atwww.oxfam.org/en/grow/issues/climate-change

Or you can read more about Oxfam's work at the 2012 UN climate conference in Qatar on our blog atblogs.oxfam.org/en/blogs/grow/tags/2301

Credit: Richard Casson / Oxfam

Originally proposed at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, the Green Climate Fund is meant to provide funds to help poor countries cope as climate change kicks in and as weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable. But three years on, and as initial funding runs out, the Fund remains empty.

In these photos, from Oxfam's opening media stunt at UN climate talks in Doha, people representing recent extreme weather events– including Superstorm Sandy, the Sahel drought and the Pakistan floods – face a closed bank teller with the amount each disaster cost.

Climate 'fiscal cliff' looms for developing countries if leaders come to Doha with no new money

Photo: Oxfam

Originally proposed at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, the Green Climate Fund is meant to provide funds to help poor countries cope as climate change kicks in and as weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable. But three years on, and as initial funding runs out, the Fund remains empty.

In these photos, from Oxfam's opening media stunt at UN climate talks in Doha, people representing recent extreme weather events– including Superstorm Sandy, the Sahel drought and the Pakistan floods – face a closed bank teller with the amount each disaster cost.

Climate 'fiscal cliff' looms for developing countries if leaders come to Doha with no new money

Photo: Oxfam

In 2010, biofuels made up 4.7 per cent of all ground transport fuel used in the EU. More than three quarters of the EU’s biofuel is biodiesel, most of which is made from rapeseed grown in the EU and imported soy and palm oil; the remaining quarter is ethanol, most of which is made from wheat and corn grown in the EU and imported sugarcane.

Source: EurObserv’ER (2011) ‘Biofuels barometer’,www.eurobserv-er.org/pdf/biofuels_2011.pdf

Land used to power European cars with biofuels for one year could produce enough wheat and maize to feed 127 million people.

With the world’s poorest at greater risk of hunger as a result of spiraling food prices, Oxfam is calling on the EU to rethink its dangerous love affair with biofuels.

In a new GROW campaign report,The Hunger Grains, Oxfam warns that Europe’s growing appetite for biofuels is pushing up global food prices and driving people off their land, resulting in deeper hunger and malnutrition in poor countries.

Achieving sustainable development for nine billion people has to be high on the list of humanity’s great uncharted journeys. So here’s an idea for a global-scale compass to point us in the right direction -- the doughnut.

Who’s stressing the planet?
The rich, not the poor. Bringing everyone alive today above the social foundation need not stress planetary boundaries.

The real source of stress is excessive resource use by roughly the richest 10 percent of people in the world– backed up by the aspirations of a rapidly growing global middle class seeking to emulate those unsustainable lifestyles. Thanks to the extraordinary scale of global inequality, widespread poverty coexists with dangerous planetary stress.

What about growth?
The aim of economic development must be to bring humanity into the safe and just space, ending deprivation and keeping within safe levels of resource use. Traditional growth policies have largely failed to deliver on both accounts: far too few benefits of GDP growth have gone to people living in poverty, and far too much of GDP’s rise has been at the cost of degrading natural resources.

Read more on the GROW blog:Can we live inside the doughnut? Why the world needs planetary and social boundariesand tell us what you think about this model of growth!