While the Government plans new oil and gas exploration, Oxfam Aotearoa has published a new report saying it’s time to close the industry down for good. Released on COP28’s Just Transition Day, 'Closing Time' shows how fossil fuel expansion would .
Oxfam is gravely concerned for the lives of around 500,000 Palestinians, alongside any of the more than 200 Israeli and other national hostages, currently trapped in a 'siege within a siege' in northern Gaza. Israeli forces have imposed .
Using land alone to remove the world’s carbon emissions to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050 would require at least 1.6 billion hectares of new forests, equivalent to 60 times the size of New Zealand or more than all the farmland on the planet, reveals .
Monday, 25 January 2021, 10:32 pm
New Zealand’s richest citizen, Graeme Hart, has seen
his fortune increase by NZ$3,494,333,333 since March 2020
– a sum equivalent to over half a million New Zealanders
receiving a cheque for NZ$6,849 each, reveals a new analysis
from Oxfam today.
The New Zealand analysis precedes a
global report being published by Oxfam at 1pm NZT today,
released to coincide with the opening day of the World
Economic Forum’s ‘Davos Agenda’. It shows how the
rigged economic system is enabling a super-rich elite to
amass wealth in the middle of the worst recession since the
Great Depression while billions of people and businesses are