{"id":494064,"date":"2010-03-31T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11893"},"modified":"2010-03-31T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:05:34","slug":"ed-miliband-post-copenhagen-prospectus-%e2%80%9crobbing-the-poor-to-help-the-poor%e2%80%9d-says-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/494064","title":{"rendered":"Ed Miliband Post-Copenhagen Prospectus: \u201cRobbing the poor to help the poor\u201d says Oxfam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam welcomed today&#8217;s Post-Copenhagen Prospectus, announced by Ed Miliband but is disappointed that he failed to promise that the $30bn immediate funding &#8211; known as Fast Track Finance &#8211; pledged in Copenhagen would be new money and not raided from aid budgets<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam also urged the UK to show greater ambition on EU emissions reductions by pushing for 40 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020 instead of the 30 per cent target contained in the document.<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam&#8217;s Campaigns and Policy Director Phil Bloomer said: &#8220;The UK&#8217;s<strong> <\/strong>willingness to take on another round of legally-binding emissions reductions under the Kyoto Protocol is welcome as it could help restore trust among developing countries who got<strong> <\/strong>no such assurances in<strong> <\/strong>Copenhagen. Its support for ongoing negotiations under the UN is also positive<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Support for Fast Track Finance is good news, but robbing the poor to help the poor is no solution to the millions of vulnerable people around the world already struggling against the odds and now facing the growing challenges of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diverting money previously ear-marked for building hospitals and schools in poor communities only pays lip-service to the problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\/ Ends<\/p>\n<p>For interviews or further information contact Lucy Brinicombe +44 (0)1865 472192 \/ +44 (0)7786 110054 \/ lbrinicombe@oxfam.org.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam welcomed today&#8217;s Post-Copenhagen Prospectus, announced by Ed Miliband but is disappointed that he failed to promise that the $30bn immediate funding &#8211; known as Fast Track Finance &#8211; pledged in Copenhagen would be new money and not raided from aid budgets Oxfam also urged the UK to show greater ambition on EU emissions reductions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}