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Oxfam Aotearoa Responds To New Zealand’s Climate Target
Friday, 31 January 2025, 4:33 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
We are at a critical point for the Pacific as global heating creeps closer to 1.5 degrees. Our Government should be standing with the communities most affected and leading global efforts to stop the climate crisis getting worse. More >>
Richest 1% Burn Through Their Entire Annual Carbon Limit In Just 10 Days
Friday, 10 January 2025, 2:09 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
The richest 1 percent are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution than the poorest half of humanity, with devastating consequences for vulnerable communities and efforts to tackle the climate emergency. More >>
Oxfam Says COP29 Deal Is A "Global Ponzi Scheme"
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:44 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Oxfam Aotearoa’s Climate Justice Lead Nick Henry said: "The failure to meet the global need for climate finance is a failure of empathy from the leaders of rich countries." More >>
Risk Of Disease Outbreak Rises As Bangladesh Floods Devastate Sanitation Infrastructure
Monday, 30 September 2024, 10:32 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
The Bangladesh floods are the worst in recent history, have affected around 5.8 million people. With sanitation facilities, infrastructures, homes, and agricultural lands extensively damaged, communities need immediate and sustained support. More >>
Oxfam Responds To Lebanon Crisis
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 5:36 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Oxfam and our partners are supporting internally displaced people in shelters in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon with clean water and sanitation, emergency cash, food, and hygiene and menstrual hygiene kits. More >>
New Reports Highlight New Zealand’s Opportunity To Boost Climate Finance
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 1:48 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
Humanitarian agencies World Vision New Zealand and Oxfam Aotearoa, alongside the New Zealand Climate Action Network (NZCAN), have released two important climate finance reports today. More >>
"Least Cost" Means "More Damage" In Government’s Emissions Plan
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 1:37 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
The gap is growing between our domestic policies and our international commitments. This will cost New Zealand billions of dollars by 2030 if we rely on buying offsets from other countries. The lack of ambition in today’s plan will increase that cost ... More >>
Former Heads Of State Call On G20 Leaders To Back Global Deal To Tax The Ultra-rich
Monday, 15 July 2024, 2:09 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
Ensuring the ultra-rich pay their fair share "would reduce inequality and raise trillions of dollars necessary for investments in industrial policy and a just transition." More >>
Increasing Floods And Drought Displaced 8m People Last Year In Ten Worst-hit Countries - Over Twice That Of A Decade Ago
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 1:24 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
Water-related disasters forced nearly eight million people out of their homes in 10 of the world’s worst-hit countries last year - a 120% increase compared to a decade ago, said Oxfam today. More >>
Oxfam Aotearoa Celebrates The Final Trailwalker Event In New Zealand
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 2:02 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
The final Trailwalker event was held at the end of March 2024 in New Plymouth, and successfully raised more than $505,000 NZD. More >>
Oxfam Aotearoa Launches HAMRIIK Project To Strengthen Climate Change Resilience In Rural Timor-Leste
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:26 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
The project, named after the Tetum word meaning 'to stand,' aims to bolster the climate change adaptation capacities of households and communities in rural Timor-Leste and effectively address the intersections between gender, disability, and climate change. More >>
Only One In Four Of The Biggest Food And Agriculture Corporations Say They’re Reducing Water Use And Pollution
Friday, 22 March 2024, 9:43 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Only 28 percent of the world’s most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing their water withdrawals and just 23 percent say they are taking action to reduce water pollution. Oxfam’s new analysis of 350 corporations ... More >>
Report: Richest 1% Emit As Much Planet-heating Pollution As Two-thirds Of Humanity - Oxfam
Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 2:09 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
The richest 1% of New Zealanders cause double the consumption emissions of all 2 million people who live in Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati, combined. The richest 1 percent of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution ... More >>
Oxfam Aotearoa: Budget 2023 A Missed Opportunity For Climate Justice That Could Have Devastating Results
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 4:37 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
Oxfam Aotearoa’s climate justice lead Nick Henry said: “Despite the undeniable urgency of the climate crisis and the imperative to take immediate and bold action, the Government's Budget falls far short of what is required to mitigate and adapt ... More >>
Oxfam Aotearoa: New Offshore Oil And Gas Permit A Betrayal Of The Pacific
Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 10:41 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
“We’re deeply concerned to learn that just as Pacific leaders have launched a call for a Just Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific, the New Zealand Government has decided to grant a new fossil fuel exploration permit,” says Oxfam Aotearoa ... More >>
Oxfam Reaction: NZ Fossil Of The Day At COP27
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 10:46 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Climate Action Network International has awarded the New Zealand government the Fossil of the Day award at COP27 for opposing an agreement to establish a loss and damage finance facility this year. This comes less than a week after the Government ... More >>
Tax Justice Aotearoa Welcomes Green’s Excess Profits Tax Initiative
Sunday, 30 October 2022, 2:55 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
Tax Justice Aotearoa (TJA) has expressed its support for the Green Party’s initiative in launching a discussion document on the idea of an excess profits tax and the mechanisms for delivering it. “In the wake of Covid-19, when people are struggling and governments ... More >>
Worst Monsoon Rains In Over A Century Submerge Most Of Northeast Bangladesh & Devastate Lives Of Over 4 Million People
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 6:48 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Monsoon rains, the worst in 122 years, have inundated major rivers in northeastern Bangladesh and submerged thousands of houses, impacting 4.3 million people. The worse is yet to come as flooding intensifies and access to affected areas are hampered, ... More >>
Oxfam Shareholder Resolutions Urge Moderna, Pfizer, And Johnson & Johnson To Address Covid-19 Vaccine Inequity
Friday, 29 April 2022, 5:22 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
In separate virtual addresses to the shareholders of Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Oxfam called on the pharmaceutical corporations to improve COVID-19 vaccine equity and access so that everyone, everywhere has access to these ... More >>
Oxfam Reaction To The IPCC’s Working Group III Report On Climate Change Mitigation
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 5:08 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
4 April 2022 Responding to the publication today of the IPCC’s Working Group III report on climate change mitigation, Oxfam’s Climate Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said : “This IPCC report pulls no punches. The bleak and brutal truth about global warming ... More >>