Doha, Tim Gore, Oxfam's Climate Adviser shamelessly tells the world that the prime priority of Oxfam is the Green
Climate Fund, when operational, will have Oxfam as a primary beneficiary. So
the bottomline of Oxfam’s hysteria about climate boils down to
money! The argument that Gore uses is
totally specious warning that if there is no money developing countries
(probably a euphemism for Oxfam) will fall of the "climate finance
cliff".
Oxfam International is running in the red which is increasing
every year due to its bloated size and high salaries of its staff. How do they want to resolve their deficit? Taxing
global citizens while they continue to stay bloated and paying their staff even
higher salaries and perquisites!! This is perversion.
Developing
countries face falling off a "climate finance cliff" because rich
nations are failing to deliver promised money to help them cope with global
warming, Oxfam warned today.
The
aid agency also said much of the first 30 billion US dollar (£19bn) tranche of
funding given to poor countries to develop cleanly and deal with the impacts of
climate change was not new money, or was delivered as loans they had to pay
back.
In
chaotic United Nations climate talks in 2009, developed countries pledged that
100 billion US dollars a year (£63bn) would be channelled to poor nations by
2020 to reduce their emissions and help them adapt to climate change.
They
also pledged 30 billion US dollars (£19bn) as "fast start finance" to
help poor countries over three years to 2012.
But
ahead of the latest round of UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, this week, Oxfam
warned the fast start finance period is ending and the Green Climate Fund set
up to channel the billions of pounds needed in the coming years is empty.
The
charity has raised fears that funding to help poor communities will be scaled
down, just when it needs to be scaled up in the face of more extreme weather.
New
research published by Oxfam on the fast start finance also suggests that the
money did not meet promises made in Copenhagen that it would be "new and
additional".
According
to the research, only a third (33%) of the money was new, with the rest
previously announced before the 2009 conference, and less than a quarter (24%)
was in addition to existing aid promises.
And
only a fifth (21%) was earmarked for projects that helped poor communities
adapt to climate change, such as providing farmers with drought-tolerant seeds
or irrigation schemes, with the remainder going on programmes which cut
emissions such as building renewables.
Oxfam
believes those kind of projects are more likely to attract private investment,
and public money such as the fast start finance should go more towards helping
communities cope with the impacts of climate change.
The
report found the EU had delivered almost all of its promised 10 billion US
dollars over three years, but only 32% went towards adaptation, and only 27%
was new money.
Oxfam
highlighted the notable behaviour of Ireland. which it said delivered 100% of
its contribution as grants, nearly all for adaptation and at least a portion
that is truly additional to existing development commitments.
Developed
countries have yet to make any concrete financial commitments for the period
2013 to 2020, after the fast start finance finishes at the end of this year.
Oxfam
is calling on countries attending this year's UN climate talks to work with
urgency and ambition to increase climate finance, particularly in the face of
extreme weather events such as the drought in the US and Russia which has
pushed wheat prices to record highs and left families in poor countries going
hungry.
The
aid agency's climate change policy adviser, Tim Gore, said:
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