Sow the Seed
World leaders have the power to protect food supplies from climate change and save lives. You have the power to plant the idea. Get involved with Oxfam’s campaign “Sow the Seed”, and stand alongside...
View ArticleFunding safe climate futures for all
(This article first appeared on ABC’s The DRUM) In a matter of weeks the major United Nations climate change conference of 2010 will commence in Cancun, Mexico. Many eyes will be on the negotiations...
View ArticleOxfam wants you to help pick the Worst Corporate Lobbyist in the EU
As we move towards the next big climate meeting in Cancun at the end of this month, activities are ramping up to influence the global talks. And it’s not only civil society organizations and active...
View ArticleFunding safe climate futures for all
(This article first appeared on ABC’s The DRUM) In a matter of weeks the major United Nations climate change conference of 2010 will commence in Cancun, Mexico. Many eyes will be on the negotiations...
View ArticleNew OXFAM report calls for climate change talks to deliver following year of...
Negotiators should begin UN climate talks with far more urgency and resolve following a year of weather-related disasters, record temperatures, flooding and rising sea levels, international agency...
View ArticleMoving forward in Cancun
(this article was first posted on ABC’s The DRUM) Tension lingers as the crucial UN climate negotiations in Cancun unfold. One-hundred-and-ninety-four countries have come together for two weeks to put...
View ArticleOxfam International: Leave a tweet in our bottle for your climate delegate
By Richard Casson Calling all Twitter activists! As we move into the second week of the UN climate summit, we need you to help us send a tweet of urgency to government representatives meeting in...
View ArticleFeatured campaign: GROW!
Soon there will be 9 billion of us on the planet. Already, almost a billion of us go to bed hungry every night. Oxfam is launching a new global campaign to grow a better future, where every one of us...
View ArticleBroken food system and environmental crises inspire Oxfam to launch global...
Farming in rural Malawi | Photo Credit: Oxfam International A broken food system and environmental crises are now reversing decades of progress against hunger according to new Oxfam analysis....
View ArticleQuitting coal, GROWing and Saying Yes: How TckTckTck partners are building...
Whew! It’s been a very busy two weeks in climate news and action. We’ve reached soaring heights, felt crushing lows and everything in between. Through it all, the call for cleaner energy and bold...
View ArticlePartner Spotlight: Frida Eklund, Global Campaigner at Oxfam International
Every few weeks the TckTckTck team is proud to recognize one of the 280+ partner organizations that make up our global climate movement. This week we are pleased to share a timely interview with Frida...
View ArticleGROW!
Here is a post about the launch of the Oxfam Grow campaign. It shoudl include quotes and stuff about the campaign an provide a prominent link to the campaign http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow If this is to...
View ArticleLand and Power: Oxfam launches new report
Creative Commons: Oxfam Italia Oxfam recently published a report highlighting the detrimental effects that the growing pace of land deals brokered around the world is having on poor communities. This...
View ArticleAnd Action! How TckTckTck partners are campaigning for a better world
If there’s one thing occupying our minds this week, it’s the rising global appetite for real, people-driven action. We’re seeing it in the estimated 15,000 people who marched on Wall Street today...
View ArticleAnd Action! How TckTckTck partners are campaigning for a better world right now
Creative Commons: Oxfam International, 2011 This week we welcomed the birth of the seventh billion human to planet Earth. And while she may not know it yet, her future depends on the climate action we...
View ArticleJeremy Hobbs & Kumi Naidoo: World leaders must support climate promises with...
G20 Summit Cannes, France- Creative Commons: President of the European Council, 2011 On the critical issue of long-term finance to help developing countries tackle climate change, the G20 meeting can...
View ArticleA victory for the optimists: Australian approves carbon tax
Courtesy: Australian Conservation Foundation, 2011 After years of work and months of tireless campaigning, the Australian Senate approved the Clean Energy Act today and helped bring one of the world’s...
View ArticleEnsuring future food production under climate change in Southern Africa: Report
Courtesy: Oxfam East Africa, 2011 Farmers in Southern Africa are experiencing changes to their climate that are different in magnitude to what they have experienced in the past. Farmers interviewed for...
View ArticleAnd Action! How our partners are making a better world this week
Courtesy: Christine Irvine, 2011 If there’s anything we’ve learned in the past few years of climate activism it is that every victory—momentous or incremental—deserves celebration. This week...
View ArticleClancy Moore: Tracking climate action with Australia’s political leaders
Climate "signature wall" in Sydney, AUS- Creative Commons: Michael Myers, Oxfam AUS, 2009 The heavily debated carbon price legislation has just passed the Senate – an historic first step for...
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