Pada tahun 2055, seorang lelaki paruh baya, bekerja sebagai pengarsip film di dunia yang hancur, menemukan sebuah film tahun 2008 dan bertanya, “We wouldn’t be the first species to wipe ourselves out, but what would be different about us is that we did it knowingly…”
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Terpal Oxfam yang dibagikan oleh mitra lokal di daerah Pariaman, Padang
Foto: Kate Thwaites/Oxfam
Siaran Pers, 4 Oktober 2009
Lembaga Bantuan Internasional, Oxfam hari ini mulai mengirimkan tanki-tanki air bersih ke Padang sebagai salah satu bentuk bantuan untuk korban gempa bumi berkekuatan 7.6 Skala Richter (SR) yang terjadi Rabu lalu.
Manajer Oxfam Indonesia untuk Emergency Response, David MacDonald menjelaskan bahwa penyediaan air bersih adalah bantuan utama dan langsung yang diberikan oleh Oxfam.
“Persediaan air bersih di Padang mengalami kerusakan yang cukup parah dikarenakan oleh bencana gempa bumi dan harga air bersih saat ini mengalami kenaikan sampai dua kali lipat dari Rp. 4.500 sebelum bencana gempa menjadi Rp. 8.000 per galon,” ujar MacDonald.
“Oxfam memiliki satu tangki air bersih yang dapat menyediakan 5000 liter air dan kami juga mengirimkan tiga instalasi saringan air yang dapat menyediakan air bersih untuk lebih dari 40.000 orang.”
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Climate change is damaging people’s lives today. Even if world leaders agree the strictest possible curbs on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the prospects are very bleak for hundreds of millions of people, most of them among the world’s poorest. This paper puts the dramatic stories of some of those people alongside the latest science on the impacts of climate change on humans. Together they explain why climate change is fundamentally a development crisis. The world must act immediately and decisively to address this, the greatest peril to humanity this century.
It is in the tropics where the bulk of humanity lives – many of them in poverty – that climate change is hitting now and hitting hardest. For the poor countries in the tropics and sub-tropics particularly, almost every observation and prediction about health, food security, water shortage, natural disasters, famine, drought, and conflict is worsening at an alarming rate.
We need to stop harming and start helping. In December 2009 the world’s politicians will meet in Copenhagen to sign a deal to tackle climate change. This deal must ensure that global carbon emissions peak by 2015, and then begin falling. Rich countries must commit to reduce their own emissions by at least 40 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020 and all countries must act to reduce global emissions by at least 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.
As importantly, beginning immediately, developing countries will need at least $150 billion a year to cope with the effects of climate change and to pursue their own low-carbon futures.
It is not only morally right, it is economically smart to adapt for climate change. The better developed a country, the better it copes with environmental disaster and recovers.****
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By Olenka Priyadarsani, Communication Officer Oxfam GB Indonesia Office, Aceh & Nias Programme
My home is my palace, according to an Indonesian saying. A home is place where you rest and sleep at night after a whole day’s at work. It’s also a place where you meet and share your love with your family.
Unfortunately, after the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, in Aceh and Nias, over 600,000 people left homeless. Many had to live years in the barracks, living in uncertainty. I remember one of barrack residents in Kajhu, Aceh Besar, told me, “I feel like chicken without cage.” He illustrated how he had to move from tent, to temporary shelter, to barrack, then to another barrack, without knowing when his house would be completed.
That’s why every time Oxfam hands over houses to its beneficiaries, I feel touched. Another family can start their new life.
Rasyidah from Alue Deah Teungoh Village is one of them. She is one of many tsunami survivors who lost everything in the tsunami. “After years living in uncertainty, now I have my own house, a very good one,” she said while proudly showing off her house certificate.
“Oxfam and CHF houses are definitely the best houses in Meuraxa, maybe even the best houses in all over Aceh,” said Rasyidah. She tried to hold her tears when representatives from Oxfam and CHF handed over the house certificate and key to her.
Oxfam in partnership with CHF retrofitted 157 houses in Alue Deah Teungoh and Deah Glumpang, two villages in the northern tip of Banda Aceh. The houses are earthquake-resistant with onduline roof, that has better quality and makes the house cooler compared to zinc-sheets. It was also constructed with ceramic tiles – including the bathrooms, something thatnot often happens for NGO-built houses.
Oxfam provides the fund and monitoring support for the construction of the houses, while CHF takes care of implementation in the field. The result of the partnership, you can see it yourself, very sturdy and nice houses with satisfied beneficiaries.
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Sarasehan Iklim
6 dan 11 November 2009,
09.00 s/d selesai
Hotel Harris
JL. Dr. Saharjo No.191,
Jakarta.
Bagaimana petani, nelayan maupun masyarakat di perkotaan, khususnya yang paling rentan, menyikapi masalah-masalah terkait dengan iklim dan perubahan iklim?
