Seminar Series: Abstract

11am
May 15 2009
Hedley Bull 2

Climate Seminar Series - The global climate deal: financing for developing countries in Asia-Pacific
Ms Julie-Anne Richards

December 2009 will see a crucial meeting in Copenhagen to agree a global climate change deal. A lot rides on the successful outcome of Copenhagen, not least preventing catastrophic climate change that would devastate the Asia Pacific region. One of the key, and often overlooked, elements of the global climate deal will be financing for developing countries to reduce their emissions and to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. This seminar will explore the scale of this financing, who is responsible for providing it, and what the conditions for providing the finance should be.

Oxfam Australia works in 26 countries across East Asia and South Asia, Southern Africa, the Pacific and Indigenous Australia, in partnership with local communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Image caption: Boys take advantage of the extreme high tide to play with their toy boats in salty tidal flood waters that have intruded up through the ground on Funafuti the capital atoll island of Tuvalu (March 2006, copyright Jocelyn Carlin/Panos).