{"id":209,"date":"2007-12-14T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2007\/12\/14\/signing-kyoto-is-good-news-for-the-poor\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T07:47:52","slug":"signing-kyoto-is-good-news-for-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2007\/12\/14\/signing-kyoto-is-good-news-for-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing Kyoto is good news for the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"85\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/images\/charities\/tearfund_logo.gif\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Logo\" height=\"120\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 120px\" title=\"Logo\" \/>TEAR, an international Christian agency that is a strong advocate towards eliminating global poverty, has announced that the signing of the Kyoto protocol by the new Rudd Labor government in good news for the world&#8217;s poorest people.<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy Co-ordinator for TEAR Australia, Ben Thurley, said he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thrilled that the first act of our new Prime Minister was action on Kyoto. I hope it signals a new era in climate change negotiations and that Australia will now take more of a lead in the right direction.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Andy Atkins, Advocacy director of Tearfund UK, added: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a huge boost to the Bali talks, good for Australia and the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poorest people who suffer most at the hands of a changing climate. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/au.christiantoday.com\/article\/tearfund-welcomes-australias-kyoto-pledge\/3513.htm\" title=\"Christian Today article\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEAR, an international Christian agency that is a strong advocate towards eliminating global poverty, has announced that the signing of the Kyoto protocol by the new Rudd Labor government in good news for the world&#8217;s poorest people. Advocacy Co-ordinator for TEAR Australia, Ben Thurley, said he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thrilled that the first act of our new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,12,14,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}