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Briefing paper

From Commitments to Communities: Rethinking Climate Finance: How civil society and community participation strengthen accountability, access and equity

15/05/2026

1 documents

84 pages long

Languages: English

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The climate crisis is accelerating, but climate finance is still not reaching the people who need it most. Despite repeated promises and global commitments, funding remains inadequate, fragmented, and too often locked in top-down systems that ignore local realities. Communities on the frontlines and civil society actors are too often shut out of decisions that […]

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Briefing paper

How to increase taxes on fossil fuel profits

19/12/2025

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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Taxing excess profits, both in the fossil fuel industry and the overall corporate sector, is essential to restructure the economy to tackle climate breakdown, reduce inequality and make rich polluters pay. This briefing paper sets out Oxfam’s proposal for two taxes: a Rich Polluter Profit Tax (RPPT) on fossil fuel corporations, and an Excess Profit […]

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Briefing paper

A Vision for a just Cymru: How the Senedd can fight injustice and inequality while protecting people and the planet

25/11/2025

2 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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This paper sets out Oxfam Cymru’s priorities for the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) and the next Welsh Government in the run-up to, and following, the Welsh election in May 2026. It presents 34 ambitious but achievable policy proposals—using the full scope of devolved powers—across four interconnected pillars of justice: Economic, Social, Climate, and Global. Each pillar […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster

29/10/2025

10 documents

73 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon budget - the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while avoiding climate disaster. The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep […]

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Discussion paper

Green, Fair and Caring: A feminist roadmap for Wales

23/10/2025

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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This report contributes to a global vision for a green new deal by grounding it in the Welsh context. It recognises that the economic and climate crises are deeply interconnected as interlocking consequences of unjust systems—patriarchy, neoliberalism, and extractive economics—that exploit people while degrading the environment. Within this, the undervaluing of care—both paid and unpaid—illustrates […]

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Briefing paper

A Vision for a Just Scotland: How the Scottish Parliament can fight injustice and inequality while protecting people and planet

17/09/2025

1 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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This report outlines Oxfam Scotland's priorities for the Scottish Parliament in the run-up to and following the Scottish election in May 2026. It sets out 40 ambitious but achievable policy goals, using devolved powers, across four pillars of justice: Economic, Social, Climate and Global. Each pillar is vital to building a fairer Scotland in a fairer […]

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Briefing paper

Fast, Fair, Funded and Feminist: A pathway to a just and transformative climate transition within and beyond the UK

10/03/2025

1 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

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The world is in the grip of a climate emergency. Urgent and equitable action is essential to prevent yet further escalating climate impacts that are devastating communities worldwide and to safeguard a liveable planet for future generations. For governments everywhere, including the UK Government, this is a defining test of leadership. But it is also […]

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Journal article

Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

12/02/2025

25 pages long

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Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

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The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally around the globe, but in both the global North and South, they disproportionately affect poor and marginalised communities, exacerbating pre-existing intersectional inequalities. Women and marginalised groups have always been active in resilience-building efforts for the survival of their communities, and often at the forefront of place-based […]

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Briefing paper

Communities In Charge: Lessons for the Global Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage from a locally-led project in Kenya

06/11/2024

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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People in northern Kenya have suffered numerous severe economic and non-economic losses and damages due to repeated climate-related droughts and flooding. This briefing note provides an overview and lessons learned from a locally-led project funded by the Scottish government and recently implemented by Oxfam, Strategies for Northern Development and Merti Integrated Development Programme in northern […]

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Briefing paper

Leaving No One Behind: A green bargain for people and planet

21/09/2023

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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With the increasing frequency of fires, floods, droughts and other extreme weather events, countries across the world are facing a new era of climate-linked crises. The international climate finance system – through mitigation, adaptation and potentially now through loss and damage – is seeking to reduce and address these impacts. In parallel, the humanitarian system […]

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