Marc Daalder of Newsroom12:00, Jul 21 2021
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The highest elevation on Tarawa atoll, home to more than half of the population of Kiribati, is three metres above sea level.
More than 100 developing countries have put out a call for increased ambition on climate change from rich nations, including New Zealand, Marc Daalder reports. New Zealand is named as one of the nations which needs to pledge to steeper emissions cuts, in a new five-point plan for climate change backed by more than half of the world s countries. The document, released by a number of non-government organisations from the global South, lays out five pleas for rich nations and priorities ahead of the global COP26 climate summit in November. On at least two of these measures, New Zealand is falling short.
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 3:27 pm
In reaction to the UN’s State of Food Security and
Nutrition (SOFI) report revealing that nearly 12% of the
world’s population – or 811 million people – were
undernourished last year and that increase is equal to last
five years combined, Oxfam’s Emergency Food Security and
Vulnerable Livelihoods Advisor Emily Farr
said:
“Oxfam is extremely worried of these
downward trends, which will drift us further away from our
global 2030 zero hunger target, and will only get worse
unless the alarms raised are heard. The pandemic was the
last straw for millions already battered by the impacts of
conflict, economic shocks and a worsening climate
Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 2:53 pm
Today, Oxfam Aotearoa launches a new campaign to
rally Kiwis across the country to demand greater climate
action. Oxfam kicks-off the campaign with a petition that
supporters will sign to get the New Zealand government to
help our largest polluting sector - industrial farming –
to evolve to sustainable food production.
Recently,
the Climate Change Commission released a report that will be
used by the government to plan what New Zealand will do to
reduce climate pollution and what target to present at the
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in
Glasgow this year. Despite some progress being made, the
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The self-interest of G7 countries is the biggest obstacle to ending the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of campaigning organizations said today. Ahead of the G7 Leaders’ Summit, the People’s Vaccine Alliance warned that G7 promises to vaccinate the .