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Towards a Just Energy Transition: Implications for communities in lower- and middle-income countries

07/12/2022

3 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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More frequent or intense floods, heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and typhoons devastate people’s homes, livelihoods and the natural world. A clean energy transition is urgently needed to reduce carbon emissions and prevent the impacts worsening. Wealthy countries have the prime historic responsibility for the climate crisis and therefore for its mitigation. But as the clean energy […]

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Briefing paper

The Assault of Austerity: How prevailing economic policy choices are a form of gender-based violence

22/11/2022

5 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This briefing paper argues that austerity measures are a form of gender-based violence against women, girls and non-binary people, and lays out clear examples of how fiscal consolidation affects them. Its core argument is that ending austerity must be a priority. The policies that deliver austerity’s deadly consequences can no longer be marketed as the […]

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Briefing note

Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people

07/11/2022

5 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the […]

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Technical briefing

Doing Business on Uneven Ground: Advancing land equality is key to addressing climate change and farmer rights

25/10/2022

6 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Land is the bridge between companies’ environmental and social sustainability agendas, and it is foundational to both. To implement their commitments on climate change, net zero emissions, human rights, women’s empowerment, and farmer livelihoods, companies must focus on land in agricultural value chains: who controls it, who can access it, who has rights to it, […]

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Briefing note

Climate Finance Short-changed: The real value of the $100 billion commitment in 2019–2020

19/10/2022

5 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2009, high-income countries promised to provide $100bn a year in climate finance to low- and middle-income countries by 2020. They have failed to keep this promise. Their official reports claim that the climate finance they provided and mobilized reached $83.3bn in 2020, but Oxfam estimates the real value was only around a third of […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

11/10/2022

12 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

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The 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is the first detailed analysis published looking at governments’ policies and actions to fight inequality during the first two years of the pandemic. This fourth edition of the CRI Index reviews the spending, tax and labour policies and actions of 161 governments during 2020–2022. COVID-19 has increased […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

How Can We Bring About Meaningful Change for Women by Investing Differently in Small Enterprises?

15/07/2022

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Oxfam-supported enterprises have generated high impact and demonstrated strong business performance. Now, the shift to make women’s economic empowerment a more central focus and the opportunity to generate more meaningful impact has put us on track to transition towards a new enterprise investment model. In the future, more attention will be paid to the structural […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Oxfam and Protection: A guidance note (2022 update)

22/06/2022

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This guidance note outlines Oxfam’s understanding of protection within humanitarian responses, and the framework it uses for field-based protection work. It goes on to describe the main modes of action Oxfam uses in its work to bring about greater protection for civilians in conflict and disasters, including community-based protection, advocacy and campaigning work.

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Briefing paper

Footing the Bill: Fair finance for loss and damage in an era of escalating climate impacts

07/06/2022

8 documents

36 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The world has entered a new and dangerous era of climate change impacts, causing huge loss and damage and driving up inequality in the world’s poorest countries and communities that have contributed least to the climate crisis. New research by Oxfam estimates that funding requirements for UN humanitarian appeals linked to extreme weather are eight […]

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Briefing paper

Dangerous Delay 2: The cost of inaction

18/05/2022

7 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Somali, Spanish

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In 2011, Somalia experienced a devastating famine that killed over a quarter of a million people. Afterwards, leaders in the region made a commitment to end drought emergencies by 2022. The international community sought to ensure that there would be no repeat of the failures that led to famine. Next time, the world would heed […]

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