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Financing climate change adaptation won’t break the bank: new report 02 Dec 08
As the financial crisis deepens a new report released today recommends alternative ways to fund measures to help developing countries adapt to the new reality of climate change without increasing government taxes on tax-payers.... Read more...
Urgent global climate action needed in Poland 01 Dec 08
Australia must do our fair share in addressing climate change to avoid lagging behind other countries, according to international aid agency Oxfam.... Read more...
Women bearing greatest burdens of climate change 13 Nov 08
Women throughout the world are bearing a bigger burden from climate change than men, an audience at an Oxfam Australia and Make Poverty History film launch will be told today. ... Read more...
Unambitious Garnaut cements crisis 06 Oct 08
Together with the rest of Australia, Oxfam keenly anticipated the outcome of Professor Ross Garnaut’s final report on climate change 30 September. While Oxfam welcomed Professor Garnaut’s openness to a stronger target of 25 per cent by 2020 dependent on a global solution, we believe it is essential that Australia show leadership and set much firmer targets, encouraging other developed countries to do the same.... Read more...
Paint Your Climate Change Picture 02 Oct 08
International aid agency Oxfam is inviting Australians to create their own piece of art that tells a story about the effect climate change is having on the developing world. ... Read more...
Neighbours under threat 08 Sep 08
Poor countries around the world are feeling the impact of climate change, but the answers are in the industrialised world, writes Oxfam Australia’s Media Coordinator Laurelle Keough.... Read more...