Barbara Stocking Quotes

United Kingdom, Public Servant
July 28, 1951

Dame Barbara Mary Stocking, DBE (born 28 July 1951) is a British public servant, former chief executive of Oxfam GB, and current president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.

Barbara Stocking
There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

Barbara Stocking
- Help
- Kindness
- Destroyed

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December.

Barbara Stocking
Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.

Barbara Stocking
- Help
- Death
- Problem