12 hours later and still no decision at the UN Climate Change Conference

It’s 12:30 pm – 12 hours after with we last spoke to you – here is a quick update direct from the United Nations Climate Conference plenary, where I am sitting and waiting with the rest of the Oxfam team, for the conference to reach a final outcome.

A quick round up while we wait for the final verdict

Oxfam New Zealand’s Executive Director, Barry Coates, gave us a quick round-up of the last two weeks of the conference, while he and the rest of the Oxfam team stay up late waiting for delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, to announce their final outcomes.

Poor people can’t bear it – Oxfam’s Polar Bears reject the US Climate offer

Oxfam’s Polar bears came back for a second visit to the Untied Nation Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia today, as they could not believe that on the final day of the summit, there was still no clear agreement on a way forward to tackle climate change. You can watch a video of what they got up to on our YouTube Channel.

Ugandan Minister for Environment unveils art from children about climate change.

The Ugandan Minister for Environment, Ms Maria Mutagamba, launched a collection of drawings that young people form Bangladesh, Malawi and Uganda, have created to express what Climate Change means to them.

The drawings were entered into a competition that Oxfam co-coordinated, so that young people in developing countries, could send a message to delegates in Bali, to think about their future, when making decisions at this conference

Ms Mutagamba was moved by the images and said that the children “ …. expressed themselves (through) images of floods and drought … they have lost hope and we must restore their hope in the global community.”

The drawings drew a big crowd at their unveiling, you can see the images in more detail on our Flickr profile and watch the video of the unveiling of the drawings below.

One of the drawings has gone off to a special meeting. More about that in our next few blogs.

The real story of Climate Change – from those most affected

Today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Oxfam launched “South Voices”, a video with testimonies from 63 people from developing countries who are already feeling the impacts of climate change.

The people featured in the video are already taking action to adapt to climate change, by making drastic changes to the way that they live their lives, but it is not enough, weather patterns are changing too fast. They need support from the rich countries that contributed most to climate change.

They want you to join them and demand action from world leaders. Take the first step – Sign the Climate Change pledge with Oxfam.

Below are just some of the powerful statements showing at the conference right now.