The richest 1% of New Zealanders cause double the consumption emissions of all 2 million people who live in Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati combined, a new Oxfam report shows.

Oxfam welcomes the Pacific Island Forum’s acknowledgement that the response to the climate crisis must involve a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels, but notes this falls short.

Oxfam is backing calls from Pacific leaders for the New Zealand and Australian governments to endorse a Just Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific, a top agenda item at the Pacific Islands Forum

Oxfam is gravely concerned for the lives of around 500,000 Palestinians, alongside any of the more than 200 Israeli and other national hostages, currently trapped in a “siege within a siege” in Gaza