Oxfam calls for an end to conflicting international policies on Somalia

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A Shift in Focus

Green Climate Fund ready for lift-off but still lying empty

Joint Media Reaction by Oxfam, CAN Europe, APRODEV, CIDSE

[Brussels, February 21, 2012] ? NGOs welcome the renewed resolve expressed by European Union Finance Ministers today [1] to help developing countries adapt to climate change and curb carbon emissions. Environmental and development groups now call on EU Member States to find the resources to make their pledge a reality.

Meera Ghani, Senior Policy Officer for Climate Finance at Climate Acti...

Baaba Maal visits Mauritania with Oxfam: "The scale of this crisis is so great that I have to speak out so that the world reacts"

During a 48 hour visit to th...

New Somalia fighting forces thousands of civilians to flee

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Barclays bonuses could pay for 9.6bn school meals in Africa

Barclays? £1.5 billion investment banking bonus pool could pay for school meals for two years for the 23 million primary age children who attend school hungry across Africa, according to figures from the World Development Movement.  

The anti-poverty group has slammed the bank for its involvement in speculation on food prices which is fuelling global price spikes, incentivised by bonuses which it claims reward risky and socially damaging behaviour. 

The total bonus pool ...

Barclays wins ?shame award? for speculating on food prices

Barclays Bank has today won a Public Eye ?shame award?, for speculating on food prices. Barclays? activity is fuelling hunger and poverty worldwide, says the World Development Movement, which nominated the bank.

The award was presented today in Davos, Switzerland, to coincide with the World Economic Forum.

Barclays is estimated to make up to £340 million a year from speculating in food ...

Average Brit uses a Kenyan?s annual carbon emissions by 13 January

By the end of tomorrow (Friday 13 January 2012), the average person in Britain will have emitted as much carbon dioxide as the average person in Kenya will in an entire year, according to figures from the World Development Movement. 

The latest available data shows Kenya?s annual per capita carbon emissions at 0.293 tons, while the UK?s are 8.351 tons. Despite having such little responsibility for causing climate change

New report: European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger

European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to a new report released today (January 12) by Friends of the Earth Europe and the World Development Movement. [1]

The report, ?Farming Money?, analyses the activities of 29 European banks, pension funds and insurance comp...

Barclays up for ?shame award? for speculating on food prices

Barclays Bank has been shortlisted for the 2012 Public Eye ?shame award? due to its financial speculation on food prices. Anti-poverty campaign group the World Development Movement, which nominated the bank, says its activity is fuelling hunger and poverty worldwide. 

Barclays is estimated to make up to £340 million a year from speculating in food ?futures? markets, making it the biggest UK player in the markets. Research by the World ...

January 2010: Act on Copenhagen website comes to an end

www.actoncopenhagen.gov.uk is no longer updated. But we're still working for international action on climate change & subscribers will continue to receive news from us....

January 2010: UN?s Jan 31 deadline sees 60+ countries submit

China, India & US join 60+ countries, representing over 78% global emissions, that submit 2020 mitigation targets. Targets are in 'striking distance' of 2 degrees....

December 2009: Two intense weeks? negotiation follow from two years of talks

Highly anticipated COP-15 negotiations begin. View video diaries, blogs, commentary and news from the negotiations as 192 countries hammer out a global climate deal....

November 2009: Commonwealth urges climate deal

View passionate film from the Commonwealth youth, who represent more than half the Commonwealth?s 2 billion citizens, urging world leaders for a climate deal....

October 2009: Major Economies Forum outcomes show doable

PM Gordon Brown addressed MEF, citing urgent need to avoid climate ?catastrophe?. Ed Miliband says London-based MEF outcomes show COP15 deal is ?doable?....