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"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 >>
Oxfam Reaction: BioNTech Plans To Ship Vaccine Factory To Africa
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 12:03 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
Responding to the announcement that v, which could start producing vaccines in the second half of 2023, Oxfam’s Health Policy Manager, Anna Marriott, said: “Efforts to boost vaccine manufacturing in Africa are welcome but this is a long-term project ... More >>
Oxfam Reaction To Recent Civilian Deaths In Airstrikes, Yemen - Tuesday 18 January 2022
Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 11:10 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Following recent airstrikes in Yemen, Muhsin Sidiqquey Oxfam's country director in Yemen said; “The increase in fighting in Yemen is having a deadly impact and once again it is civilians that are paying the price. The people of Yemen have been ... More >>
World’s Ten Richest Men Double Their Fortunes In Pandemic
Monday, 17 January 2022, 7:14 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
New billionaire minted every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds The world’s ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from US$700 billion to US$1.5 trillion —at a rate of US$15,000 per second ... More >>
Oxfam In Tonga
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 2:42 pm | Oxfam Aotearoa
Following the recent eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai and the ensuing tsunami, Carlos Caldern Oxfam Aotearoa Humanitarian Lead said: “We share the concern of our Tongan whanau here in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and our heart goes out to all those ... More >>
Rich Countries Have Received More Vaccines In Run-up To Christmas Than African Countries Have All Year
Saturday, 25 December 2021, 6:56 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
The EU, UK and US have received more doses in the last six weeks than African countries have received all year. Global rollout at speed of UK’s booster programme could vaccinate the world by February. At current rates vaccine manufacturers will fail ... More >>
WTO's MC12 Postponement Reaction: Oxfam
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 9:32 am | Oxfam Aotearoa
Responding to the announcement that World Trade Organisation talks on vaccines due to take place in Geneva next week have been postponed due to concerns over the spread of a new variant of COVID-19 which has emerged in South Africa, People’s Vaccine ... More >>
