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Oxfam - Powering the transition: World Bank and other IFI energy lending in Asia

Development banks still pouring billions into fossil fuels in climate-vulnerable Asian countries

Oxfam urges 3 world's biggest development banks to drop their support for dirty energy projects and focus on kick-starting a clean energy revolution.

Rising temperatures will push millions of people into poverty unless governments take swift action

Climate change has set our planet on fire, millions are already feeling the impacts, and the IPCC just showed that things can get much worse.

Powering the Transition

The most climate-vulnerable Asian countries are spearheading a new form of climate leadership and have set visionary goals. How can the World Bank, together with other international financial institutions (IFIs), support them to turn these bold commitments into reality?

Afghanistan

Emergency Livelihoods in Northern and Eastern Afghanistan

Areas of Northern and Eastern Afghanistan affected by protracted conflict and displacement require a triple track approach to emergency livelihoods and economic recovery. It is necessary to continue with short term ground level emergency cash and livelihoods input support, and yet also to recognise...

Oxfam - The World Bank meets in Indonesia, days after the ominous wake-up call of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 degrees report. From prolonged droughts in Afghanistan to floods across the entirety of South Asia and mega typhoons in the Philippines, Asia has felt the brunt of climate change firsthand. The number of disasters in the region continues to increase both in quantity and devastation, leaving millions of women, men, and children without food and water and displaced from t

To empower Asian clean energy ambitions, the development banks must act now!

The number of disasters in Asia continues to increase both in quantity and devastation, leaving millions without food and water and displaced from their homes. We’re less than a half a degree away from a catastrophe of unimaginable scale.

Oxfam’s regional partners present Disability Inclusion(DI) action plan and checklist in Chiang Mai: Photo: Saneth Meas/Oxfam

Cambodia

Real World Examples to Change People’s Perception on Disability

Learning from the Disability Inclusion into Water Governance training organised by Oxfam Mekong Regional Water Governance Program (MRWGP) and EarthRights International (ERI) last 27th-28th August 2018.

Bangladesh

Rohingya Children Enjoy Rare Moment of Laughter

Hundreds of Rohingya children enjoyed a rare moment of laughter as they watched a play designed to teach them how to keep clean and stay healthy in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Nguyen Thi Khanh - 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize winner

Vietnam

Progressing and Protecting the Mekong and its People

The winner of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize winner told Oxfam that as the challenges faced by the Mekong are becoming more apparent its citizens are rising to the occasion, becoming more knowledgeable and empowered than ever before.