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In response to the 21st tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this year, Oxfam Philippines Country Director said:Oxfam together with our local partners are closely monitoring Typhoon Ulysses, known internationally as Typhoon Vamco.

Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis.

Half the world’s food is lost as waste and a billion people – one in every six of the world’s poorest – cannot access enough of the other half and so go hungry every day. Our leaders have another chance to put that right.

  OXFAM REACTION: G20 finance ministers   Oxfam spokesperson Luc Lamprière said:   

More than 52 million people in 18 countries across southern, eastern and central Africa are facing up to crisis levels of hunger as a result of weather extremes, compounded by poverty and conflict.  

Over a decade since Somalia experienced a devastating famine that killed over a quarter of a million people, another famine is looming in East Africa. Despite various warnings and alarms over the past two years, we are once again responding too late and with too little to avert the crisis. The humanitarian system must evolve in order to enable and fully fund anticipatory action.

Forty percent of the world’s hungry people lived in South Asia even before the food price crisis of 2008.

In reaction to the Council’s conclusions on a renewable energy strategy for Europe beyond 2020 adopted in Brussels today by Energy Ministers, Marc Olivier Herman, Oxfam’s EU Policy Adviser

What can we learn about resilience by examining completed resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation projects? Oxfam conducted three such case studies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Fiji, looking at the conditions required for successful resilient development as well as issues around timing and duration.

Oxfam welcomes today’s announcement by the World Bank Group on a new Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition before the UN Climate Summit in New York. The Summit is meant to build political momentum towards a post-2020 climate agreement in Paris in 2015, with governments on the hook to make meaningful commitments to reduce their emissions and to deliver climate finance to the poorest, most vulnerable countries. Placing a…