climate change
Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement
This paper suggests a new approach that recognizes the failings of the current climate finance regime and is better informed by needs and opportunities at the national level.
Hungry for Commitment
Food security in southern Africa relies upon small-scale agriculture, a sector in which women take the lead. However, smallholder farmers are among the most vulnerable people to food insecurity, often lacking the resources and access needed to produce or procure adequate food.
World Bank vision for a New Climate Normal - Oxfam Reaction
The World Bank’s 'Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal' report delivers a troubling new assessment of the impact climate change is having on food security, water resources and ecosystems. It warns that without action heat waves and other weather extremes that occur once every hundred years, if ever, would become the new climate normal putting millions of people at risk.
Pledges to Green Climate Fund reach bare minimum but are important step forward
The announcement of $9.2 billion in pledges to the Green Climate Fund ahead of the Lima climate summit is welcome but only a bare minimum, says Oxfam.
Oxfam reaction to Obama administration planned $3 billion pledge to the Green Climate Fund at the G20
Multiple reports this morning indicate that the Obama administration plans to announce a $3 billion pledge to the Green Climate Fund at the G20 in Australia this weekend.
Oxfam reaction to promising US/China climate agreement
In response to the announcement from US President Barac
Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: Asian governments failing to respond to climate change
Many countries in Asia, including Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Pakistan, and the Philippines, should invest more in their governments’ capacity to protect their citizens given the region's vulnerability to climate change.
Europe must review climate targets after weak climate package deal
Today European leaders met in Brussels to agree an EU climate and energy package up until 2030.
World trapped by ‘Toxic Triangle’ that puts profit for the few ahead of a sustainable future for all
People around the world are trapped in a ‘toxic triangle’ made up of short-term financial investors, timid governments and fossil fuel companies, which threatens to push up global temperatures, putting 400 million people at risk of hunger and drought by 2060.
Food, Fossil Fuels and Filthy Finance
Climate change is already making people hungry, and the use of fossil fuels is largely to blame, representing the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
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