Category: Food & climate change

Our Climate Tracker Phil reports from the first day of the 2010 UN Climate Summit in Cancun, Mexico, with a sense of both optimism and frustration. Read more »

Mary Robinson, Honorary President of Oxfam International outlines her reasons (and hopes) for attending the climate negotiations currently underway in Cancun, Mexico. Read more »

We sat down with Australia’s Ambassador for Climate Change, Louise Hand to ask her a set of questions regarding the 2010 UN Climate Summit in Cancun. What would you ask Louise? Read more »

Oxfam Global Ambassadors Scarlett Johansson, Gael García Bernal and Bill Nighy have joined Oxfam to call on international negotiators to protect the world’s poor from climate catastrophe at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun Read more »

The world’s population is consuming the planet’s natural resources at an unprecedented rate, the equivalent of 1.5 planet Earths each year. If everyone lived like the average Australian we would require 3.8 planets to support the world’s population. A sustainable economy is the only way to guarantee living standards in Australia will improve and poverty can be reduced in developing countries. Read more »

In order to prevent dangerous climate change, wealthy developed countries, including Australia, must reduce their carbon pollution by at least 40 per cent by 2020 (below 1990 levels) and return levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 ppm. Read more »

Rising sea levels and tidal inundations linked to climate change have also significantly reduced access to locally-grown foods including the staple root crops taro and pulaka. These climate impacts have contributed to an increased reliance on imported, processed foods – the consequence is a rise in health conditions like diabetes and hypertension previously little known in Tuvalu. Read more »

If left unchecked, climate change threatens not just our way of life, but the lives of millions of people living across the Pacific, Asia and beyond. The flipside is that climate change presents us with a tremendous opportunity to reassess our priorities and shape a new, sustainable and more just world. Read more »

India is a vast country. So vast that climate change is having very different effects in different parts of the country. But Oxfam India are acting to bring communities together to explore what the possibilities are for future action, leading the way for India and the world. Read more »

Cancun, Mexico is often associated with being a popular holiday location for fun seeking American students, yet for two weeks from November 29th, the coastal city will be host to the 2010 UN Climate Summit. We’re hoping that this will mean that there will be a little less tequila and more politically inspired discussion… Read more »