18 Dec 2009 08:44:45 GMT Emissions targets being
considered are not enough - Oxfam Oxfam GB - UK
Leaked documents emerged today (17) from the United Nations that
suggest current proposals for a climate deal would result in a three degree increase in the planet’s temperature:
 Oxfam’s climate advisor Hugh Cole said:”At this stage in
the game, a deal that fails to keep temperature rises below two degrees is simply not good enough. Oxfam [...]
17 Dec 2009 17:16:02 GMT $100 bn is half the
amount poor countries need - Oxfam Oxfam GB - UK
As the US, Ethiopia and European Union - including France, Germany
and the UK - coalesce around a climate finance package of $100bn, Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam International said:
“It’s good news that discussions on climate cash have
finally got moving after two long years of delay but this needs to be the start [...]
17 Dec 2009 17:13:51 GMT US commitment to £100 billion in climate financing welcome â€" Oxfam Oxfam GB - UK
David Waskow, spokesperson for Oxfam said:
“We are heartened by Secretary Clinton’s commitment to
significant financial resources of $100 billion dollars a year by 2020 to help developing countries weather the negative impacts of climate change.
“It is absolutely crucial that this funding
comes from public sources in developed countries and be additional to current development assistance [...]
17 Dec 2009 17:11:05 GMT The UK is still prepared to fight at Copenhagen - Oxfam Oxfam GB - UK
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Oxfam’s Senior Climate Advisor Robert Bailey said:
“Gordon Brown has shown today that the UK is still prepared to fight for an agreement that ensures aid budgets
are protected.  With safeguards against aid raiding absent from the talks of late, it’s encouraging to see this critical issue back on the agenda.
“Now its time for
Gordon Brown [...]
17 Dec 2009 15:17:20 GMT CARE International calls on UK PM to show leadership in final two days of COP15 CARE International - UK CARE International UK welcomed this morning’s speech by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Copenhagen
– and urged him to take a lead in forging a deal that prioritises the most vulnerable people.
17 Dec 2009 15:17:20 GMT CARE International calls on UK PM to show leadership in final two days of COP15 CARE International - UK CARE International UK welcomed this morning’s speech by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Copenhagen – and urged him to take a lead in forging a deal that prioritises the most
vulnerable people.
The earthquake has changed many lives in West Sumatra. They've lost their houses and loved ones. Yusmaida, 43, is one of the earthquake-affected people in Pinjauan in the Sungai Limau sub ...
17 Dec 2009 12:01:48 GMT Emergency
Relief supplies to aid 10,000 families fleeing South Waziristan conflict World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe/ Central Asia office As conflict forces
thousands of people to flee South Waziristan to neighbouring districts, World Vision, in partnership with the Church World Service provided more than 6,500 people (900 families) in Dera Ismail Khan
(D.I. Khan) with emergency relief items this week. Relief items included 900 hygiene kits, 900 family kits and 2,700 blankets. World Vision plans to provide relief aid to some 10,000 families
displaced due to conflict between government forces and Taliban militants.
17 Dec 2009 11:41:23 GMT School girls
in Jordan mark the 20th Anniversary of the CRC World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe/ Central Asia office Iraqi and Jordanian school girls in East
Amman joined the rest of the world in commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, celebrated on this year’s Universal Children’s Day, November 20. The
sixth graders aged from 11 to 13 learned more about children’s rights through animated group discussions and talked about what they would like to be when they turn 20.
