November 2010
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The Movement with a Thousand Faces →
In just four short weeks UN delegates return to the table at the 2010 UN climate summit to be held in Mexico with the hope of making progress on fair, ambitious and legally…
Cartagena Dialogue meets in Costa Rica for a... →
With less than a month to go before COP16 in Cancun, it’s deeply encouraging to see countries starting to come together for serious climate discussions. A great example of…
October 2010
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Sow the Seed and support food producers fighting... →
Oxfam’s Sow the Seed campaign encourages people to grow their own crops in solidarity with those who are fighting the impacts of climate change and to demand action from world leaders.
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Maldives President Nasheed Installs Solar PV... →
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, who once famously held a cabinet meeting underwater to draw attention to climate change, is installing a solar photovoltaic (PV) system…
May 2010
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The G8 and G20 are coming to Canada this June to make decisions affecting the future of life on our planet. These twenty powerful leaders need to hear what needs to be done to create a world that…
April 2010
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March 2010
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Climate change to cost 6% of GDP each year: IMF →
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday said that countries in the Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, are more vulnerable to climate change, whose threat to…
Heat scavenging: New technologies allow heat to be... →
“WATER, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” lamented the becalmed Ancient Mariner. Oddly, the same is true of energy. As with the water that surrounds a desert island,…
Nevada Wind Turbine Factory to Create 1,000 Jobs,... →
A consortium of Chinese and American renewable energy firms said last week that they had chosen Nevada as the location of a 320,000-square-foot wind turbine manufacturing and…
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Earth Hour 2010 - See the world in a whole new... →
On March 27 join millions around the world in a personal demonstration of support for climate action. Turn off your lights for an hour, encourage others to do the same, and help show a global…
January 2010
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El trabajo de Cáritas en Haití
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Social Media Revolutionises Disaster Response for...
By Kate Ausburn On Tuesday January 12th, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake has destroyed the nations capital of Port-au-Prince including the Parliament building, the United Nations national headquarters, the hospital, the prison and many homes and businesses. Tens of thousands are dead and millions displaced in an event that United Nations...
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Oxfam launch action calling on IMF to Drop the...
Help Haiti today and tomorrow: Cancel the debt Our biggest concern right now is dealing with the immediate aftermath of the humanitarian disaster caused by the devastating earthquake. But in our concern to help those suffering, let’s not forget the long term. Take the action now The world’s attention is focused on Haiti. Leaders are pledging to stand shoulder...
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Oxfam America Blog » Blog Archive » In Haiti,...
Oxfam’s Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based colleagues on her way to Haiti to help with the relief effort, where they will join over 200 Oxfam staff already on the ground. Here’s her latest update, dated January 18. I suspect tonight might be my last night of sleeping soundly. Aftershocks are continuing to rattle the nerves of people in Port-au-Prince. “Be careful,” said Yves...
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Helen Hawking: My Story From the Earthquake
January 12 It had been an average day in the office, conference calls, report writing, fighting off the mosquitoes that plague us here in Haiti. My clock showed just 10 minutes until it was time to leave for the day, when without any warning the ground made slight movements, which rapidly became violent. The earth shook harder than I have ever felt before, I ran to...
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Haiti Relief Effort Update - Oxfam Australia
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BBC News - UK charities prepare to deliver Haiti...
UK aid efforts are underway to help earthquake hit Haiti, where the death toll is thought to be over 100,000. Hygiene is the key challenge facing Oxfam’s aid workers, and its Bicester warehouse is piled high with equipment to establish sanitation and a clean water supply. The items including water testing kits, buckets and disposable latrines are essential for saving lives in the...
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Red Cross Blogs - Getting aid to Haiti quake...
Getting aid to Haiti quake survivors By Pete Garratt January 15, 2010 at 4:22 pm Forgive me for not blogging earlier but it’s been hard to get a moment to gather my thoughts since Tuesday night, when my phone went as I was just on my way to bed. I received a text alerting me to the Haiti quake – which was 7.0 on the Richter scale. From my knowledge of the country I knew that...
Avaaz - HELP HAITI: DROP THE DEBT
HELP HAITI: DROP THE DEBT As Haiti begins to receive desperately needed funds to cope with the earthquake, it still owes hundreds of millions of dollars in debt — a legacy of loans from global financial institutions and donor nations to unelected governments of years past. If these debts aren’t cancelled, Haiti will be sending tens of millions to the Inter-American...
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VIDEO: Oxfam Australia's Haiti Earthquake Appeal
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American Red Cross Releases $10 Million to Help...
Priority needs are food, water, shelter, medical help WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With estimates that as many as three million people may be affected by the catastrophic earthquake which hit Haiti Tuesday, the American Red Cross is releasing an additional $9 million for earthquake relief, bringing its total commitment so far...
AUDIO: Louis Belanger of Oxfam Headed to Haiti
Louis’s Phlog - 3Rd. Download now or listen on posterous ipadio_15967_Louis_s_phlog_-_3rd_phonecast.mp3 (302 KB) Louis will provide regular updates. He is heading to Santo Domingo, DR from New York and then into Haiti on Wednesday.
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U.S. sending disaster response teams to Haiti |...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agency for International Development is sending disaster response teams to Haiti to help the impoverished nation after it was hit by a major earthquake on Tuesday. via reuters.com
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Oxfam team in place for Haiti earthquake response...
PORT-AU-PRINCE—Following a major earthquake near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, international aid agency Oxfam announced that its teams are ready to respond. Oxfam’s emergency team based in the capital will be responding with public health, water and sanitation services to prevent the spread of waterborne disease. “The first step in an emergency will be getting clean water to...
Oxfam Launches Haiti Earthquake Emergency Appeal |...
Oxfam New Zealand has launched an emergency appeal following the Haiti earthquake today and welcomes donations from the public. Oxfam is preparing to respond with humanitarian assistance following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti. Oxfam has an emergency response team for Latin America based in Haiti’s capital Port au Prince ready to respond. Statement from Jane Cocking, humanitarian...
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Oxfam prepared to respond to Haiti Earthquake
Aid group Oxfam said it had emergency response teams in the region poised to respond. “At this stage it is too early to tell the severity of the earthquake in Haiti, but the early signs are not good with communications down across the country,” said Jane Cocking, the charity’s humanitarian director. “Oxfam has its emergency response team for Latin America based in Haiti...
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World leaders walked away from the global summit in Copenhagen without a treaty that will save the climate. Together, we must let leaders know that failure is…
December 2009
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COP15 - The Final Push →
Starting Thursday, we’ll have a home base and three major actions: a vigil at 5pm Thursday, the Fossil of the Year at 1pm Friday followed by a spectacular leader-shaming action, and a…
Protest puts pressure on summit to produce a deal →
A PLANETARY chain of protests headed by a mass rally in Copenhagen yesterday cranked up the heat on problem-plagued talks to build a pact to roll back climate change.
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Tens of thousands rally in Copenhagen →
Tens of thousands of climate activists marched in Copenhagen on Saturday as part of a worldwide “Day of Action” to urge negotiators at UN talks to agree a strong treaty to…
Global Public Tells Leaders in Copenhagen: The... →
Copenhagen, Denmark - On December 12th hundreds of thousands of people from around the globe came together for an unprecedented day of action coordinated by the TckTckTck…
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Copenhagen: Monday, December 7, 2009: A staggering 10 million people – and growing – have united in a call for a fair, ambitious and…
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November 2009
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Climate change: What price will future generations... →
Climate change poses a huge barrier to a fulfilling future, argues Lord Puttnam, an ambassador for Unicef UK.
When world leaders sit round the table in Copenhagen next…
Investment in wind power blows into Chile →
The Latin American nation has limited indigenous energy resources, with the exception of hydropower. As a result, the country must import the bulk of its energy needs.
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Victims of climate change tell the world how it’s... →
OXFAM’S climate hearings are being held in 17 countries around the world, taking the testimonies of real people from all walks of life about how climate change is affecting…
World Bank backs Kenya renewable energy power plan →
NAIROBI, Kenya - The government’s recent efforts to switch the country’s power production from hydro dependency to one that focuses on renewable energy has received backing…
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UN: Fight climate change with free condoms -... →
“As the growth of population, economies and consumption outpaces the Earth’s capacity to adjust, climate change could become much more extreme and conceivably catastrophic,” the report said.
The world’s population will likely rise from the current 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion in 2050, with most of the growth in less developed regions, according to a 2006 report by the United...
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U.S., China make progress in tackling climate... →
Buried in the text of Tuesday’s joint declaration between the President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao was a significant climate announcement: The Obama administration will offer concrete emission reduction targets as part of next month’s negotiations, as long as the Chinese offer a climate proposal of their own.
The question of whether the United States would identify a...
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Why Climate Change Got Tabled | The Atlantic Wire →
It’s official: There will be no binding agreement to address global warming negotiated at Copenhagen next month. World leaders dashed high hopes for a treaty this year, rolling back expectations after it became clear that a strong treaty would be too politically costly for the summit’s major players, including the United States. Commentators are somber, if unsurprised, by the...
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Fresh Demands From ‘Front-Line States’ in Climate... →
The “ climate divide” between countries that are rich and poor, insulated from climate impacts and vulnerable to them, was on vivid display in the Maldives over the last few days. Countries that consider themselves most threatened by human-driven global warming — mainly places exposed to the sea or reliant on rainfall — concluded a forum there and issued a declaration of their concerns and...