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A new study by the IFEU institute quantifies for the first time the enormous opportunity costs across Europe of dedicating millions of hectares of fertile cropland to the production of biofuels. The results are clear - this land could be used much better in the interest of mitigating climate change, stemming biodiversity loss or increasing global food security. In 2009, the European Union (EU) introduced a biofuels mandate as part of its green fuels law, the ʻRenewable Energy Directiveʼ (RED). The proposition at the time was attractive: farmers would…

As global greenhouse emissions continue to rise, and climate change wreaks more havoc upon the people and places least responsible for the problem, rich polluting countries are now three years overdue on their promise to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for low- and middle-income countries.

People across the world are changing what they eat because of the rising cost of food according to a new global survey released today as part of the GROW campaign. Agriculture Ministers from the G20 countries are meeting in France next week and will discuss the global food price crisis.

The European Union has failed to provide clarity about where the €7.2 billion [1] pledged at Copenhagen for immediate climate finance needs in developing countries will come from.

Jan Kowalzig, Oxfam’s climate policy advisor, responds to the release of new figures on the climate finance provided to developing countries by rich countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Thousands of people are at risk this winter as the EU-Turkey deal keeps migrants, including refugees, stuck in dangerous and degrading conditions in Greece, a coalition of more than 20 humanitarian agencies and human rights organisations warned in a joint statement. EU leaders need to take urgent action to improve the situation on the ground and save lives.

The small island states – the country’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change – outlined their proposal for a climate deal in Copenhagen today.

The UN published a preview of the climate deal in Copenhagen today. The proposals do not include a long term climate finance package to help developing countries tackle climate change and do not guarantee climate action.

In response to President Obama’s climate plan announcement scheduled for this afternoon Gawain Kripke, research and policy director for Oxfam America said: 

World leaders could make significant progress toward a climate fund for developing countries when the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) resumes talks in Tianjin , China.