Negotiators at the UN climate talks have narrowly avoided a collapse, agreeing to the bare minimum deal possible
UN Climate Change Summit 2011, Durban (South Africa)
- This year Oxfam is teaming up with Green TV to bring you the latest news, inside scoops and all the action from around the COP 17 climate change summit.
- Across the world people are coming together to demand that our leaders take action now to curb harmful emissions and pay to help countries adapt to climate change.
- With climate change, the UN and international development, there’s a lot to get your head around. Here is our guide to some of the more frequently asked questions.
At this year’s UN Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa, there are some obvious and achievable steps that governments must take to ensure progress is made. Oxfam believes that climate change is a global problem, requiring a global solution – a UN deal that is fair to both rich and poor countries.
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Will the UK re-set the bar at next year’s G8 Summit?
As part of Oxfam’s G8 team in Washington, DC last week, I had the chance to return to my native country with a new perspective.
GROW campaigners host a potluck dinner for Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day
A global action on food Food Revolution Day launched around the world on Saturday (May 19); a day of global action intended to inspire people around the world to stand up for real food, as part of Jamie Oliver's campaign for better food education.
G8 Leaders Hear it from Oxfam
As the G8 Summit comes to a close, we’ve got a bit of a surprise twist in the outcome. There was more movement on food security than we expected and day one of the summit was focused almost solely on that issue, a rarity in recent G8 history. The increased focus was due in part to the stirring outcry from anti-...
18 million at risk in the Sahel food crisis [infographic]
In the Sahel region of West Africa, families are facing a grim reality. A food crisis is now threatening more than 18 miillion people. Without help they won't get enough to eat.Drought, poor harvests, the lingering effects of an earlier food crisis in 2010, and high prices in the market are part of the problem -- and so is poverty. It forces farmers and herders to make impossible...![18 million at risk in the Sahel food crisis [infographic]](http://blogs.oxfam.org/sites/blogs.oxfam.org/files/imagecache/grow_blogmain/blogimages/main/70782scr-talking-to-herder-chad-620.jpg "18 million at risk in the Sahel food crisis [infographic]")
Overheard at Day One of the G8 Summit
Early this morning as high-level guests arrived at the Reagan Building for US President Barack Obama's keynote speech at the Chicago Council Symposium, there were distractions of every kind to be found. Vibrant chants from large groups of protesters lined the streets. But perhaps the most important messages of the day were those that were not quite so loud.
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The 'doughnut' - A safe and just space for humanity within planetary and social boundaries
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.
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New Zealand Earns First Place Fossil, United States and Canada Share“Colossal Fossil”
At the final day of the United Nations climate negotiations for 2011, countries received their biggest shaming yet for blocking greater progress in the talks. With the final outcome of negotiations not yet decided, it was at least clear enough which nations had done their worst in the last day and the entire two weeks. New Zealand took the infamous 1st prize for its strongest statement yet against continuing Kyoto. But Canada earned yet another Colossal Fossil for scoring the most dirty points at these negotiations.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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New Zealand Earns First Place Fossil, United States and Canada Share“Colossal Fossil”
At the final day of the United Nations climate negotiations for 2011, countries received their biggest shaming yet for blocking greater progress in the talks. With the final outcome of negotiations not yet decided, it was at least clear enough which nations had done their worst in the last day and the entire two weeks. New Zealand took the infamous 1st prize for its strongest statement yet against continuing Kyoto. But Canada earned yet another Colossal Fossil for scoring the most dirty points at these negotiations.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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New Zealand Earns First Place Fossil, United States and Canada Share“Colossal Fossil”
At the final day of the United Nations climate negotiations for 2011, countries received their biggest shaming yet for blocking greater progress in the talks. With the final outcome of negotiations not yet decided, it was at least clear enough which nations had done their worst in the last day and the entire two weeks. New Zealand took the infamous 1st prize for its strongest statement yet against continuing Kyoto. But Canada earned yet another Colossal Fossil for scoring the most dirty points at these negotiations.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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New Zealand Earns First Place Fossil, United States and Canada Share“Colossal Fossil”
At the final day of the United Nations climate negotiations for 2011, countries received their biggest shaming yet for blocking greater progress in the talks. With the final outcome of negotiations not yet decided, it was at least clear enough which nations had done their worst in the last day and the entire two weeks. New Zealand took the infamous 1st prize for its strongest statement yet against continuing Kyoto. But Canada earned yet another Colossal Fossil for scoring the most dirty points at these negotiations.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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New Zealand Earns First Place Fossil, United States and Canada Share“Colossal Fossil”
At the final day of the United Nations climate negotiations for 2011, countries received their biggest shaming yet for blocking greater progress in the talks. With the final outcome of negotiations not yet decided, it was at least clear enough which nations had done their worst in the last day and the entire two weeks. New Zealand took the infamous 1st prize for its strongest statement yet against continuing Kyoto. But Canada earned yet another Colossal Fossil for scoring the most dirty points at these negotiations.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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New Zealand Earns First Place Fossil, United States and Canada Share“Colossal Fossil”
At the final day of the United Nations climate negotiations for 2011, countries received their biggest shaming yet for blocking greater progress in the talks.
Though the final outcome of negotiations had not yet been decided, it was at least clear enough which nations had done their worst in the last day and the entire two weeks.
New Zealand took the infamous 1st prize for its strongest statement yet against continuing Kyoto.But Canada earned yet another Colossal Fossil for scoring the most dirty points at these negotiations.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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Let them eat carbon
Ever tried eating coal? Oxfam's stunt shows how the food we all rely on is at risk in the face of a changing climate. Instead of delivering solutions in Durban to help protect the millions of people on the front lines of the climate crisis, certain countries are standing in the way of progress at the talks.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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Let them eat carbon
Ever tried eating coal? Oxfam's stunt shows how the food we all rely on is at risk in the face of a changing climate. Instead of delivering solutions in Durban to help protect the millions of people on the front lines of the climate crisis, certain countries are standing in the way of progress at the talks.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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Let them eat carbon
Ever tried eating coal? Oxfam's stunt shows how the food we all rely on is at risk in the face of a changing climate. Instead of delivering solutions in Durban to help protect the millions of people on the front lines of the climate crisis, certain countries are standing in the way of progress at the talks.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
Credit: Ainhoa Goma/Oxfam -
Let them eat carbon
Ever tried eating coal? Oxfam's stunt shows how the food we all rely on is at risk in the face of a changing climate. Instead of delivering solutions in Durban to help protect the millions of people on the front lines of the climate crisis, certain countries are standing in the way of progress at the talks.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
Credit: Ainhoa Goma/Oxfam -
Let them eat carbon
Oxfam is calling for urgent action at COP17 in Durban to tackle climate change.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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Let them eat carbon
Ever tried eating coal? Oxfam's stunt shows how the food we all rely on is at risk in the face of a changing climate. Instead of delivering solutions in Durban to help protect the millions of people on the front lines of the climate crisis, certain countries are standing in the way of progress at the talks.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
Credit: Ainhoa Goma/Oxfam -
Let them eat carbon
Ever tried eating coal? Oxfam's stunt shows how the food we all rely on is at risk in the face of a changing climate. Instead of delivering solutions in Durban to help protect the millions of people on the front lines of the climate crisis, certain countries are standing in the way of progress at the talks.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
Credit: Ainhoa Goma/Oxfam -
Responding to journalists
Kelly Dent, Head of the Oxfam Delegation, responding to journalists questions.
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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Taking notes
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
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Oxfam team
Find out more about Oxfam's work at UN climate summit 2011 in Durban, South Africa
Credit: Ainhoa Goma/Oxfam
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RT @oxfamamerica: In #Peru, women confront #climate change with traditional gardens http://t.co/fmlTigKa
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RT @adoptnegotiator: Briefing Note to the Bonn #climate negotiations by Third World Network - Update #12 on market mechanisms http://t.co/xaPyOPZ9 #UNFCCC
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RT @oxfamamerica: In South America, indigenous #women are overcoming ethnic & gender discrimination to become leaders http://t.co/SpqTUsZn
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#Bonn #climate talks fail to deliver for the world’s poorest & most vulnerable http://t.co/vbZORGhb #GROW
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Innovative approaches to #gender & #foodsecurity: changing attitudes, changing behaviors http://t.co/qba0fm4M @IDS_UK #globaldev
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The #climate crisis is not caused by lack of options & solutions, but lack of political action http://t.co/FhTxEUV7 #Bonn #GROW
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