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Millions face hunger due to climate change, 'super El Nio': Oxfam

2015-10-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: At least 10 million poor people face hunger this year and next because of droughts and erratic rains linked to record global temperatures and an expected "super" version of the evolving El Nino weather pattern, aid charity Oxfam has warned. In Ethiopia alone, 4.5 million people need food aid because a combination of El Nino and long-term climate change has made the rainy season more unpredictable, according to United Nations agencies. El Nino, caused by Pacific Ocean warming, leads to dry weather...

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Typhoon Hagupit should send shivers through halls of Lima conference: Oxfam

2014-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Jakarta Post: The devastation wreaked by Typhoon Hagupit must break the stranglehold of complacency that has gripped the first week of climate negotiations at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP20/CMP10) in Lima, Peru, international humanitarian agency Oxfam has said. Shubert Ciencia of the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement and a member of Oxfams team in Lima said the...

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Oxfam: inaction and financial short-termism putting millions at climate change risk

2014-10-17 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A toxic triangle of political inertia, financial short-termism and vested fossil fuel interests is preventing action to curb climate change, putting millions of people at risk of food and water shortages, Oxfam has warned. In a damning new report, the leading poverty charity estimates that current global warming trends, which will result in a world 4-6C warmer by 2100, could leave 400 million people blighted by famine and drought by mid-century. While warming of this magnitude would have...

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US: Oxfam welcomes Kellogg CO2 pledge

2014-08-14 18:37:09| Agriculture - Topix.net

The cereal giant indicated it will set targets to cut "Scope 3" greenhouse gas emissions - which occur in entities not owned or controlled by the company - by 2015.

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Oxfam: Kellogg, Gen Mills, Pepsico not doing 'nearly enough' to tackle climate change

2014-05-21 04:15:44| Food - Topix.net

In a report published today, Oxfam accuses the "Big 10" food and beverage companies of doing far too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions, singling out Kellogg Co.

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