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Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity

Report / 1st December 2023

The richest 1 percent of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution in 2019 than the five billion people who made up the poorest two-thirds of humanity, reveals a new Oxfam report. 

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New push for debt relief to help developing world fund climate action

News / 1st December 2023

The world’s poorest countries are paying more than 12 times as much to their creditors as they are spending on measures to tackle the impact of global heating, a campaign group has warned.

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UN adopts plans for historic tax reform

News / 1st December 2023

Countries at the UN have adopted by a landslide majority today a resolution to begin the process of establishing a framework convention on tax and completely change how global tax rules are decided.

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Put the UN in charge of international taxation

Blog / 22nd November 2023

Almost a decade of multilateral negotiations on a global tax treaty at the OECD has yielded insufficient progress. The question to be decided this week is whether the United States and the European Union will see the light and support a different approach.

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Poor people in the developing world have a right to medicine

Blog / 22nd November 2023

People should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry, writes Bernie Sanders.

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America’s war economy and the urgent call for peace in the Middle East

Article / 10th November 2023

Many Americans believe that the nations abundance should be used not as a tool of death, but as a lifeline for poor and struggling people at home and abroad. By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

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Fossil fuel producers ‘literally doubling down’, new UNEP report warns

News / 10th November 2023

Contrary to pledges to cut fossil fuel production, government policies worldwide will add up to a doubling of production in 2030, according to a new report from the UN environment agency..

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UN rapporteur on extreme poverty: ‘UK policies continue to inflict misery’

Blog / 10th November 2023

UK government policies continue to entrench poverty and inflict unnecessary misery on millions of people, says Just Fair director Jess McQuail and UN’s Olivier De Schutter.

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UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy

News / 7th November 2023

Poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and the government is violating international law, the United Nations’ poverty envoy has said ahead of a visit to the country this week.

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Hunger emergencies at risk of going forgotten amid crisis in Palestine

Blog / 3rd November 2023

The latest Hunger Hotspots report provides a telling reminder of critical humanitarian emergencies that risk falling under the radar while the world’s attention is on the conflict in Israel and Palestine. 

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