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Australia must commit to reducing emissions by 40% by 2025: Oxfam
Oxfamâs food and climate policy adviser Kelly Dent has said the Australian government should commit to reducing emissions by at least 40 percent from the 2000 levels over the course of the next 10 years, and by at least 60 percent by 2030, with a plan to reach net zero emissions as soon as possible and well before the middle of the century
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xfam's food and climate policy adviser Kelly Dent has said the Australian government should commit to reducing emissions by at least 40 percent from the 2000 levels over the course of the next 10 years, and by at least 60 percent by 2030, with a plan to reach net zero emissions as soon as possible and well before the middle of the century.
'Progress made by many countries in the past decade shows that eradicating hunger by 2030 is possible, but only if there is enough political will,' Dent said in a statement on Thursday.
She made the statement to respond to Australia's plan to announce its provisional targets for the post-2020 period in July, when the new climate agreement is due to take effect.
'Investing in smallholders, maintaining programs that protect those at risk of hunger, implementing the right to food, stopping land grabs and tackling climate change are fundamental to achieving a world free from hunger,' Dent said.
She said recent federal aid budget cuts made little sense in the face of rising hunger and malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa where the number of hungry people had risen by 14.3 million since 2010.
'The Australian government has cut aid by US$193.1 million to this region since coming to office. In the May budget alone it was cut by 70 percent, or by $74.2 million,' Dent said.
Oxfam says that in countries like Vietnam and China, rapid gains in addressing hunger have been made because they have invested in the rural economy and small-scale producers. (ebf)(+++)
