Topic: Environment
Report shows how to end ‘climate colonialism’ and ensure a just transition for Global South
Report / 25th September 2025Oxfam details how “climate colonialism” of wealthier nations “hijacks” resources from the Global South—and lays out how the world can build an energy system rooted in equality and justice.
Hundreds of thousands mobilise worldwide to ‘Draw the line’ for climate action and justice
News / 23rd September 2025Ahead of this month’s United Nations General Assembly and November’s UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil, activists around the world are taking part in a global week of action “for a future built on peace, clean energy, and fairness.”
Rich countries meet only 4% of funds East Africa needs to address climate change
Report / 8th September 2025Rich countries have broken their climate finance promises to a key grouping of eight highly vulnerable African countries, according to new research from Oxfam.
Uneven ground: Inequality and planetary health
Article / 22nd August 2025How do we promote human wellbeing while also safeguarding our planet? To achieve both, we have no option but to drastically reduce inequality, argues Kate Pickett.
Inequality worsens planetary heating
Article / 12th August 2025The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially between the rich and others, both nationally and internationally.
Hunger skyrockets by nearly 80 percent in Eastern and Southern Africa over past five years amidst worsening water crisis
Report / 20th March 2025The climate crisis has dramatically worsened water scarcity in Eastern and Southern Africa over the past few decades, leaving nearly 116 million people without safe drinking water.
‘Pollutocrat Day’: The richest 1% have already burnt through their annual carbon budget, Oxfam says
Report / 10th January 2025The richest 1 per cent of people have already blown through their fair share of the global carbon budget for the year just 10 days into January.
In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’
News / 1st January 2025UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for making 2025 “a new beginning” in his message for the New Year.
A most heinous—yet unprosecuted—crime: inequality
Blog / 19th December 2024Planet Earth is drying up, relentlessly. But while such an ‘existential crisis’ affects nearly every region, guess where - and who - are the most hit?