Category: Climate emergency
![Lilisiana, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands: Grace Namoi (19), a student at the local high school, walks through water left in the town square after a high tide. Grace worries about the future of her town with the visible impacts of a changing climate.](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RS311326_2021_Oxfam_SolomonIslands_Climate_LilisianaGrace-13-scr.jpg)
Loss and damage finance: where the rubber hits the road for climate justice
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Extreme weather events and increasing humanitarian need Continued inaction has created a climate crisis with more extreme weather events happening more frequently. These events disproportionately affect communities already facing crises related to conflict, food insecurity, and the economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even worse inadequate loss and damage finance from rich countries, who are […] Read more »
![Kwailau, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands: Adriana Wale, stands in her vegetable garden. Much of her usable land has been rendered unable to grow potatoes anymore after being inundated with seawater from rising tides. Adriana Wale - Image Credit: Collin Leafasia/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Landing-page-header4.jpg)
IPCC report: climate change is already hurting the world’s most vulnerable
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This new report on climate change shows that the impacts of global warming are not something in the distant future, but are happening now. In fact those suffering the most from these consequences are the ones who contribute the less to climate change. Read more »
![Leitamat at her home in Vanuatu where she raises poultry and grows vegetables. Credit: Artur Francisco/Oxfam NZ climate justice web banner](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/OXF063-Climate-Finance-BANNERS-2-1.jpg)
Climate justice is about more than emissions reductions
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Funding required to support low-income countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change, also known as climate finance, as well as funding to compensate for its irreversible consequences, known as loss and damage funding, is more important than ever. Read more »
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Bridging the climate finance gap on the road to Glasgow
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It is essential that countries make commitments at COP26 that will limit global warming to 1.5°C and avoid devastating impacts to lives and livelihoods. Read more »
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Keeping 1.5°C alive in the lead up to COP26
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In August we saw the release of the report from the International Panel on Climate Change. It provides the latest information on past warming and future warming projections, showing how and why the climate has changed to date, and including an improved understanding of how humans have influenced the climate. Read more »
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