Gore, Tim Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing note

Carbon inequality in 2030: Per capita consumption emissions and the 1.5⁰C goal

05/11/2021

2 documents

Languages: English, French

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The world’s richest 1% are set to have per capita consumption emissions in 2030 that are still 30 times higher than the global per capita level compatible with the 1.5⁰C goal of the Paris Agreement, while the footprints of the poorest half of the world population are set to remain several times below that level. […]

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Research report

The Workers Behind Sweden’s Italian Wine: An illustrative Human Rights Impact Assessment of Systembolaget’s Italian wine supply chains

15/09/2021

2 documents

118 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reports on an illustrative human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the Italian wine supply chains of Systembolaget, the Swedish monopoly alcohol retailer. The HRIA aimed to evaluate the actual and potential human rights impacts at the production stage of the value chain in Italy, to identify their root causes, and to provide recommendations […]

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Research report

The Carbon Inequality Era: An assessment of the global distribution of consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond

21/09/2020

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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In the 25 years from 1990 to 2015, annual global carbon emissions grew by 60%, approximately doubling total global cumulative emissions. This has brought the world perilously close to exceeding 2°C of warming, and it is now on the verge of exceeding 1.5°C. This paper examines the starkly different contributions of different income groups to […]

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Media briefing

Confronting Carbon Inequality: Putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery

21/09/2020

4 documents

12 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Despite sharp falls in carbon emissions in 2020 linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis – which is driven by the accumulation of emissions in the atmosphere over time – continued to grow. This briefing describes new research that shows how extreme carbon inequality in recent decades has brought the world to the climate […]

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Research report

The People Behind the Prices: A Focused Human Rights Impact Assessment of SOK Corporation’s Italian Processed Tomato Supply Chains

06/02/2019

2 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

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This focused Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) of SOK Corporation's Italian processed tomato supply chains is a pilot for the company's new approach to assessing human rights impacts in high risk supply chains that goes ‘beyond audits’. The assessment took place over six months, and consisted of five phases of analysis in a methodology aligned […]

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Campaign report

Ripe for Change: Ending human suffering in supermarket supply chains

21/06/2018

8 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Inequality is rampant across the global economy, and the agro-food sector is no exception. At the top, big supermarkets and other corporate food giants dominate global food markets, allowing them to squeeze value from vast supply chains that span the globe, while at the bottom the bargaining power of small-scale farmers and workers has been […]

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Briefing paper

Feeding Climate Change: What the Paris Agreement means for food and beverage companies

27/06/2016

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Italian

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The Paris Agreement marked a major breakthrough in support for climate action from many parts of the business community, including from key actors in the food and beverage sector. But despite significant progress, much work remains both to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to support the millions of people already hit by climate change. As […]

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Briefing paper

Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement

01/12/2014

6 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate finance is fundamental to a fair and effective global climate agreement. Too few countries have delivered on their obligations. As a result, the world’s poorest people have not benefitted from the necessary investment, and climate finance has been a major obstacle to achieving a global climate change agreement. This paper suggests a new approach […]

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Briefing paper

Standing on the Sidelines: Why food and beverage companies must do more to tackle climate change

20/05/2014

9 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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For the food and beverage industry, climate change is a major threat. For millions of people, it means more extreme weather and greater hunger. The Big 10 companies are significant contributors to this crisis, yet they are not doing nearly enough to help tackle it. In this paper, Oxfam calls on the Big 10 to […]

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Media briefing

Reversal in Progress on World Hunger Likely as Climate Change Threatens Food Security

31/03/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English, French

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New evidence of how climate change could damage food security is presented in a major new scientific report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).The impacts of climate change on food security are worse than previously estimated – and current emissions trends could surpass adaptation limits after 2050. This briefing summarizes some of the key findings of […]

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