Tag: Oxfam

M&S Launches First Pre-Loved Back-to-School Uniform Shop in Partnership With Oxfam and Ebay

Stuart Mitchell

Marks & Spencer has announced it is extending its long-standing Shwopping scheme with the roll-out of dedicated school uniform Shwop boxes in over 200 of its stores across the UK. Collaboration for change Through the new M&S Back-to-School Shwopping boxes, donated pre-loved school uniform – which passes the hand-me-down quality test – will be given a second life in an Oxfam shop and, for the first time, made available on a dedicated pre-loved school uniform shop on eBay. By partnering with eBay, M&S and Oxfam hope the pilot shop will…

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Rich countries’ continued failure to honor their $100 billon climate finance promise threatens negotiations and undermines climate action

Stuart Mitchell

Flawed accounting systems are not giving the true picture of climate finance As global carbon pollution continues to rise, and climate change wreaks more havoc upon the people and places least responsible for the problem, rich polluting countries are now three years overdue on their promise to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for low- and middle-income countries. To make matters worse, says Oxfam, the actual support they provide is much less than reported numbers suggest, and is coming mostly as debt that has to be repaid. Oxfam’s…

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Oxfam calls for urgent action to close $27 trillion funding black hole faced by low-and-middle income countries

Stuart Mitchell

Low-and-middle income countries face a $27 trillion black hole – accumulating at around $3.9 trillion a year to 2030 –when it comes to meeting costs of climate-related loss and damages, adaptation, and mitigation measures, along with their health, education and social protection needs, new Oxfam analysis finds. Oxfam is calling for rich countries to borrow $11.5 trillion to fund an historic “climate debt swap” with poorer countries, in addition to finally honouring their aid commitments, of which they are in arrears to the tune of $6.5 trillion. Progressive wealth taxes…

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Constellation of stars set to dazzle in second-hand style at Oxfam’s London Fashion Week show

Stuart Mitchell

Supermodel Erin O’Connor, activist, model, author, broadcaster and British Vogue Contributing Editor, Munroe Bergdorf, and DJ Woody Cook are among the stars taking to the catwalk in Fashion Fighting Poverty 23, Oxfam’s London Fashion Week show on Thursday, 16 February at 6pm. Fashion Fighting Poverty 23, which will be held at the Vinyl Factory in Soho, is Oxfam’s third fashion show. It aims to well and truly overturn the narrative that second-hand is second best, as well as shining a light on the environmental importance of shopping pre-loved. Oxfam fashion…

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INGOs sign pledge for more equitable aid system by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Some of the world’s biggest aid and development organisations have signed up to a far-reaching set of commitments to create closer partnerships with local and national organisations in a drive to shift more power, decision-making and money to the places worst affected by crisis and poverty. The agencies, which include CARE International, Christian Aid, Plan International, Save the Children International and Oxfam International, believe being “locally led and globally connected” will mean bigger, longer-lasting impacts on people’s lives. ‘Only through such partnerships will we remove any dependency on aid and…

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