Help us get closer to the climate justice everyone deserves.
Climate Justice Appeal
We’re all in a climate crisis. But it’s also a hidden crisis of inequality, with people who have done the least to cause it paying the highest price.
Pull the threads to learn more and join in solidarity with communities fighting for fairness
The climate crisis isn’t a natural disaster. It’s the man-made result of political power and profit-chasing by the wealthiest among us as they neglect those most in need.
And it doesn’t affect us all in the same way. It’s a complex web of injustice – with many threads to it. Threads that see communities who have done the least to cause the climate crisis, feeling the effects the most. Threads that see the poorest parts of the world being hit harder by extreme weather events, more often. Threads that make lives more dangerous for women and girls.
But together we can unravel these threads and challenge the injustice. Together we can work alongside communities, creating a better, fairer future for everyone.
Let’s get closer to bringing climate justice to where it’s needed
Follow the threads and see the change that communities are already making.
In Sindh Province, Pakistan, Ghulam started his small roadside shop business with a cash transfer.
Ghulam is building a better life in the face of climate challenges.
Help communities hit hardest by the climate crisis to recover and rebuild their lives.
Ligineti watering mud for making bricks at her village in Phalombe, southern Malawi. Photo: Thoko Chikondi/ Oxfam
Ligineti is looking for hope
Support communities living with the threat of being hit by more severe climate disasters, more often.
Siphon is a community activist and part of the local fisheries network. Photo: Patrick Moran/ Oxfam
Siphon is making her voice heard
Show solidarity to women and girls fighting back against the climate crisis.
In Sindh Province, Pakistan, Ghulam started his small roadside shop business with a cash transfer. Photo: Tooba Niazi/Oxfam.
We can unravel the web of climate injustice, together.
Climate Justice Appeal
It’s not fair that our ability to cope with the climate crisis is based on where we live, the resources we have available, and the value society places on our lives.
In 2017, Oxfam found a concerning trend over the last ten years. There have been more weather-related disasters, and this has become the number one reason for internal displacement.
This has resulted in more than 20 million people being forced to leave their homes every year. That’s like one person every two seconds.
Wealthy countries have contributed most to the climate crisis and have the most resources to address it.
In 2019, the super-rich 1% were responsible for 16% of global carbon emissions, which is the same as the emissions of the 66% of lowest-income people (5 billion people).
It’s a shocking fact. But even more shocking is that the richest 1% burned through twice as much of the carbon budget as the lowest-income half of humanity combined.
The whole village of Khaliqdar Jamali, Pakistan was displaced due to floods. They’ve set up a tent village nearby until their homes are rebuilt. Photo: Ingenious Captures/Oxfam
The whole village of Khaliqdar Jamali, Pakistan was displaced due to floods. They’ve set up a tent village nearby until their homes are rebuilt.
Oxfam is unravelling this web of injustice, thread by thread – and calling on wealthy countries to:
- Make the biggest and wealthiest polluters pay the highest price for their climate-wrecking behaviour. They can start by taxing high-polluting luxuries like private jets to help pay for their climate destruction.
- Reduce their greenhouse emissions the fastest and furthest, particularly by replacing fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources.
- Provide financial and technical support to low-emitting, lower-income countries that have contributed the least crisis and lack resources.
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