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

Carbon emissions of richest 1 percent surged to 16 percent of world’s total CO2 emissions in 2019. Their carbon emissions are enough to cause 1.3 million excess deaths due to heat. Unequal countries…

Aid conference a “mere symbolic gesture” without a ceasefire – Oxfam reaction

Reacting to President Macron’s hosted international conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza’s civilians, Oxfam France Executive Director, Cécile Duflot, said:"While President Macron’s diplomatic…

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Gazans face threat of cholera and other infectious diseases, says Oxfam

Gaza is facing an unprecedented health crisis that risks an outbreak of deadly infectious diseases, like cholera, because water and sanitation services have completely broken down, says Oxfam. All…

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G20 countries failing by big margins to cut greenhouse gas emissions to below ‘catastrophic’ levels

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are set to rise by 10.6% by 2030 instead of falling by the 45% needed to limit the increase in global temperature to 1.5 °C. The G20 countries are the worst and…

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ASEAN Leaders urged to prioritise and take concrete action on Fast, Democratic, Empowering and Equitable Energy Transition in the region

Around 70 climate and energy thought leaders, policymakers, and experts from Indonesia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Laos gathered in Jakarta on 29-31 August 2023 for critical…

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One in five water boreholes we dig now is dry or unfit for humans to drink – Oxfam

Oxfam water engineers are having to drill deeper, more expensive and harder-to-maintain water boreholes used by some of the poorest communities around the world, more often now only to find dry,…

Bangladesh’s Monsoon: At least five killed in Cox’s Bazar camps due to flooding and landslides – Oxfam responds

“Nearly 300,000 people across 60 union parishads in Cox’s Bazar have been impacted. The monsoon floods lent another hard blow to hundreds of thousands of refugees already recovering from the fury and…

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Almost Two-Thirds of Women’s Working Hours Excluded from GDP Globally

A staggering sixty-five per cent of women’s working hours are unpaid every week and excluded from official measures of economic activity, an Oxfam report has found. Radical Pathways Beyond GDP …

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Poor people being bypassed or bankrupted as rich countries pour development billions into private healthcare

Investments of taxpayers’ money into dodgy deals, profiteering and exploitation, health scandals and human rights abuses —all with little or no accountability. This includes private hospitals…

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Rich countries’ continued failure to honor their $100 billon climate finance promise threatens negotiations and undermines climate action

As global greenhouse emissions continue to rise, and climate change wreaks more havoc upon the people and places least responsible for the problem, rich polluting countries are now three years…