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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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Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

28/10/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately […]

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Climate Finance Unchecked: How much does the World Bank know about the climate actions it claims?

17/10/2024

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam finds that for World Bank projects, many things can change during implementation. On average, actual expenditures on the Bank’s projects differ from budgeted amounts by 26–43% above or below the claimed climate finance. Across the entire climate finance portfolio, between 2017 and 2023, this difference amounts to US$24.28–US$41.32 billion. No information is available about […]

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Biofuel Blunders: Time to fix two decades of EU policies driving food insecurity

11/09/2024

3 documents

87 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Since 2003, EU policymakers have promoted biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they have turned out to be a disaster for the climate, human rights and food security. Studies have shown that, when emissions from land-use changes are taken into account, biodiesel made from vegetable oils, such as palm, soy or rapeseed oil, emits […]

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Discussion paper

Understanding electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of civil society in improving performance, governance, and accountability

19/08/2024

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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This report provides a primer on the performance of electricity utilities in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting on the current landscape of power sector and utility challenges, the reforms undertaken to address performance failures, opportunities for a “utility of the future” amid the global energy transition, governance frameworks available to assess performance (like the infrastructure regulatory system […]

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Discussion paper

The Gendered Energy Crisis: Prospects for an eco-feminist Just Energy Transition in South Africa

16/08/2024

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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This report is focused on identifying the ongoing challenges at Eskom, the South African power utility, thus shedding light on democratic processes and human rights considerations. It adopts a feminist lens in its analysis of the electricity crisis, exploring potential feminist approaches to restructuring the existing electricity grid infrastructure. This includes analyzing the integration of […]

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Discussion paper

From Generation to Distribution: Investigating Ghana’s power sector’s value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable, and clean energy supply

23/07/2024

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This report, published by Oxfam partner, the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) examines the Ghana's power sector value chain and its implications for reliable, affordable and clean energy supply. The work outlines the role of the Ghanian government in the electricity sector, and outlines three salient challenges facing the energy sector: 1) The role […]

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Discussion paper

Electricity Utility Governance in Kenya: A comprehensive report

23/07/2024

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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This report provides a comprehensive account of the status of the electricity utility in Kenya. In doing so it analyzes the gaps in Kenya’s electricity governance and suggests ways these gaps can be addressed especially through civil society engagement. While Kenya has seen some notable successes in advancing its energy sector – in particular in […]

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Briefing paper

Unaccountable Adaptation: The Asian Development Bank’s overstated claims on climate adaptation finance

02/05/2024

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite positioning itself as the ‘climate bank of Asia and the Pacific’, it is difficult to ascertain the Asian Development Bank’s claims of climate adaptation finance. Oxfam analysed the bank’s 2019–2023 climate finance portfolio and conducted a detailed assessment of 15 climate adaptation projects, comprising 43% of reported adaptation finance for FY 2021 and 2022. […]

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Research report

Increasing Civil Society Ownership of National Climate Plans: Lessons drawn from Senegal’s NDC experience

15/04/2024

2 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The issue of civil society participation in the processes of developing, implementing, and monitoring national climate plans is crucial to ensuring that these ambitions are both acceptable to the populations and, beyond that, that they align with a trajectory of sustainable development beneficial to all actors in Senegalese society. This case study aims to analyze […]

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