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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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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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An Unequal Future: Asia’s struggle for justice in a warming, wired world

19/11/2025

1 documents

51 pages long

Languages: English

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This report investigates how inequality, climate change, and digital exclusion intersect to shape Asia’s future. Drawing on data from across the region, the report reveals that how the richest 1% and 10% continue to accumulate wealth and power while billions remain trapped in poverty and vulnerability. It features how climate disasters, gender disparities, and unequal […]

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UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need

03/11/2025

3 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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This past year has been indelibly shaped by concentrated wealth and power. The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion wealthier, and the arrival of the world’s first trillionaire grew more imminent. The Trump administration—largely with the support of the Republican-controlled Congress—has moved with staggering speed and scale to carry out a relentless attack on […]

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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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A European agenda to tax the super-rich: A solution to inequality in the European Union

09/10/2025

2 documents

53 pages long

Languages: English

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Europe faces a deep inequality crisis: the richest 1% in the EU own nearly a quarter of all wealth while half the population shares just 3%. Decades of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations resulted in the super-rich paying proportionally less taxes than ordinary citizens, eroding fairness, democracy, and social cohesion. The EU lacks […]

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Climate Finance Shadow Report 2025: Analysing progress on climate finance under the Paris Agreement

06/10/2025

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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The Climate Finance Shadow Report presents analysis of North-South climate finance flows and assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment to inform climate finance under the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and 2023. This year’s report, which is co-published by Oxfam and […]

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Unjust Transition: Reclaiming the energy future from climate colonialism

24/09/2025

10 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them. Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of extractivism and exploitation, with the most marginalized paying the highest price while elites profit. From transition mineral mining to debt burdens and unequal energy access, the […]

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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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Emerging Good Practices on Embedding Human Rights into Seafood Procurement

30/07/2025

2 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

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As seafood demand rises, it has been accompanied by a growing understanding of persistent human rights abuses. Recent reports have highlighted how poor procurement practices can contribute to abuses, while stronger practices can reduce them. This report reviews the current landscape and how buyers are enhancing their procurement practices to align with their human rights […]

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