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Briefing paper

Gendered Dimensions of Loss and Damage in Asia

07/12/2023

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Setting up a fund for loss and damage is one of the achievements of COP28, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference. However, ambiguity remains regarding its functions and set-up. This briefing paper emphasizes the importance of understanding the gendered dimensions of both economic and non-economic losses and damages in Asia. It draws from case […]

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Research report

Climate Justice: Loss and damage action research: Case studies of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe

29/11/2023

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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This study was undertaken to support and empower Southern African leaders, activists, civil society organizations (CSOs) and policymakers, in the lead up to COP 27 and beyond, in the debate on the losses and damages caused by climate impacts. The study used an ‘action research’ approach by supporting the collective and inclusive documentation and sense-making […]

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Campaign report

Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%

20/11/2023

5 documents

136 pages long

Languages: English

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The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty and […]

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Briefing paper

Water Dilemmas: The cascading impacts of water insecurity in a heating world

29/09/2023

5 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This briefing paper presents findings from Oxfam’s recently commissioned research on climate predictions for 2040 and 2050 in the Middle East, the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA), West Africa and Asia regions. Analyses show how temperature increases will influence water insecurity in these regions and the potential impacts on food security, the spread of […]

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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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Briefing paper

Payment Overdue: Fair ways to make polluters across the UK pay for climate justice

18/09/2023

3 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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As large sources of emissions, wealthy countries, fossil fuel companies and rich individuals, are disproportionately responsible for the climate crisis in which we find ourselves. Yet, for decades, they have been let off with not paying to deal with its consequences. As a result, the world is far behind on the spending needed to ensure […]

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Discussion paper

Are G20 Countries Doing Their Fair Share of Global Climate Mitigation?: Comparing ambition and fair shares assessments of G20 countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

07/09/2023

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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As the group of the world’s largest economies and biggest emitters, G20 countries are central to implementing solutions to the climate emergency. This discussion paper assesses to what extent they are setting climate mitigation targets that are ambitious enough and/or meet their fair share of global emissions reductions consistent with limiting global heating to 1.5°C. […]

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Issue briefing

Loss and Damage to Land: Voices from Asia

29/06/2023

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives. The stories demonstrate that land ownership is a key factor in determining people’s eligibility to receive assistance to overcome loss and damage. […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2023: Assessing the delivery of the $100 billion commitment

05/06/2023

8 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2009, high-income countries committed in the Copenhagen Accords to mobilize US$100 billion a year by 2020 in climate finance for low- and middle-income countries. Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020. This year’s report finds that high-income countries have not only failed to deliver on their commitment, but […]

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Research report

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

07/12/2022

4 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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