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The call comes as leaders meet in New York to discuss plans to cut green house gas emission, ahead of the Copenhagen conference in December.The Alliance of Small Island States say they want a new climate agreement at Copenhagen to aim for a more ambitious temperature...

According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the US and European Union have committed 40 times more money to rescuing the global financial crisis than they have to reducing poverty or addressing climate change.But prior to the global...

The group claims most of the estimated $10 billion has been spent on international salaries, administration, and imports.Australia is East Timor's largest donor and gives the country $100 million each year in aid, and the Federal Government is adamant it is not being...

The United States is least at risk followed by France, Canada, Germany and the Czech Republic, according to the Food Security Risk Index, calculated from dozens of variables that determine a country's capacity to feed its people.Food stress jumped toward the top of...

That astronomical estimate, far higher than any previously suggested by the United Nations, comes at a time when developed and developing nations are still deeply divided over who bears the responsibility for shouldering the expense of deploying cleaner energy...

Dr Cynthia Maung visited Canberra last week as part of a delegation of prominent humanitarian workers seeking a review of Australia's aid commitment to Burma. They travelled to the nation's capital to request a moderate increase in the funding received by Cross Border...

Africa contributes very little to the pollution blamed for global warming but its people are likely to be among the hardest hit by droughts, floods and rising sea levels.African leaders have put a $67 billion price tag on the cost of climate change on their...

The biggest country, Papua New Guinea, sees salvation in a $16 billion Exxon-Mobil liquefied natural gas project, which will instantly double its GDP when it starts up in 2014. A new gold mine in the Solomons will pull in 1000 workers, and the relocation of US forces...

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is currently calling for submissions on PACER Plus.PACER Plus is a proposed free trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and 14 Pacific Island countries, which will cover trade in goods, services...

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New Zealand foreign minister Murray McCully appears to have no qualms about New Zealand's half-billion-dollar foreign aid programme being used as a tool of its diplomatic policy. The notion of that aid being sent where it can do most good is not for the Foreign...