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Research report

Toxic Trade: The European Union’s double standard on highly hazardous pesticides

16/10/2026

3 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

The EU has banned the use of a number of highly hazardous pesticides, but continues to export those same pesticides to the Global South. Fields and vineyards in countries including South Africa, Uganda, Brazil and Peru are being sprayed with large quantities of European highly hazardous pesticides. These highly hazardous pesticides destroy the health of […]

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Briefing note

Who Cares for Carers? The importance of securing land rights for those at the frontlines of climate-induced land degradation

14/08/2026

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Climate-induced land degradation is often framed as an environmental challenge, but it is also a crisis of care and inequality. As droughts, floods, and other climate impacts intensify, the people who sustain ecosystems, food systems and rural livelihoods face growing burdens while frequently lacking secure rights to the land they depend on. Women in rural […]

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Research report

Research for Community Benefits and Risks from Carbon Credit Project

15/03/2026

1 documents

66 pages long

Languages: English

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Carbon finance

Overview

This study examines the community-level benefits and risks associated with carbon credit initiatives in Cambodia, with a focus on REDD+ initiatives. The research focuses on the governance and socioeconomic dimensions of these initiatives rather than their technical carbon accounting performance.

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Research report

Beyond Aid in Ghana

08/12/2025

1 documents

55 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Beyond Aid in Ghana sketches the evolution of aid in Ghana as the country assumed a lower middle-income status in its development agenda. It seeks to understand the realities of this trajectory in a milieu of dwindling aid. The report offers an alternative with a focus on domestic revenue mobilisation and emphasises a shift away […]

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Research report

Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards: Are banks and investors doing enough to ensure the energy transition is fair for all?

17/11/2025

2 documents

164 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

As the world seeks to transition towards cleaner forms of energy in response to climate change, the pressure to extract more critical minerals such as cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel and graphite has surged. These minerals are vital to sectors like energy, digital tech, healthcare, defense, and space, yet their supply chains are complex and fragile. […]

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Case study

Pathways to a Fast and Just Energy Transition: Insights from Clean Energy Case Studies

22/05/2025

2 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The clean energy transition continues to gather pace and scale, despite push back from some quarters. The key challenge is therefore not whether it will happen but how to shape it in favour of greater speed, justice, and shared prosperity. This briefing paper draws out insights from just clean energy case studies that seek to […]

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Briefing paper

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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Overview

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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Briefing paper

A Toxic Legacy: Glencore’s Footprint in Colombia and Peru: European banks and investors must take responsibility

16/11/2023

6 documents

27 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Glencore’s business model continues to have severe consequences for local communities and the environment. Several scandals have provided evidence of Glencore’s involvement in human rights violations, corruption, tax avoidance and environmental destruction. Glencore’s mines have had devastating impacts on their surrounding environments, with grave consequences for the communities living beside them. This report elaborates on […]

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Research report

Recharging Community Consent: Mining companies, battery minerals and the battle to break from the past

22/09/2023

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

With mining set to expand as part of the sweeping energy transition, it is imperative that future mining only proceed with the full support and consent of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities. In the first policy brief of its kind to focus on the public policy commitments of mining companies extracting five key transition minerals […]

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Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Regional Influencing Work in Horn, East and Central Africa: A case study of the Rights in Crisis and Extractive Industries initiatives

28/11/2022

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Oxfam’s Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA) Regional Platform was established in 2016. Among the platform’s far-reaching portfolio are two influencing initiatives – the Rights in Crisis network and Extractive Industries programme. Despite their ambitious scope and the challenging context, this report confirms that Oxfam has contributed effectively to change at all levels. These changes […]

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