In our second blog for the 16 days campaign against gender-based violence, queer climate activist Joshua Villalobos explains the passion that drives opposition to both gender-based violence and the abuse of the climate that fuels it.
How climate change fuels gender-based violence
In a blog for the 16 Days campaign against gender-based violence, Myrah Nerine looks at how women and non-binary people pay a heavy price for climate-driven poverty and migration, through higher rates of violence, more insecurity, or damage to physical and mental health.
The rush for clean-energy minerals risks fuelling conflict in the Sahel – and that has to be on the climate agenda
Mohamadou Fadel Diop on why climate negotiations such as the upcoming COP28 must pay attention to how the energy transition may drive further conflict and instability in West and Central Africa.
Five things we need for a feminist economic future
Why is debt a feminist issue? And why is it time to advance alternatives to GDP? Rachel Noble reports back from an inspiring gathering of the International Association for Feminist Economics in Cape Town.
‘They offered me nothing for what they had destroyed’: how the scramble for clean-energy minerals is hurting African communities
Today’s mining boom may not be driven by the overt colonialist motives of the past – but the parallels are there, say Dailes Judge and Veronica Zano of Oxfam in Africa.
As UN experts call for an end to greenwashing, it’s time for companies to step up on net zero
Companies in the richest countries have still not agreed to climate measures that are in line with staying below 1.5 degrees. Danielle Smith and Hilde Stroot welcome new guidance from a UN panel, released at COP27, to push action by firms on corporate net-zero plans – and set out five key ways in which its recommendations will lead to climate justice.
Three hidden costs of Somalia’s drought
As the world confronts the widespread hunger caused by the worst drought in 40 years, we must not forget it is also having a devastating impact on schools, health and the animals that are the basis of so many livelihoods, says Abdiaziz Adani
Profit and planet can go together – and impact-driven enterprises are showing us how
Thai Nguyen and Windy Massabni on three ways an Oxfam business development programme has supported hundreds of firms across the globe to boost their social and environmental impact
The best answer to climate change – or a regressive policy set to fail? A guide to the arguments over carbon pricing
Economists love it, while NGOs have recently grown more sceptical… so does carbon pricing work? James Morrissey introduces a new Oxfam primer to help you weigh up the case for and against
Young people are worried about the climate crisis. Here’s how our education resources can help them to learn, think and act
Liz Newbon from Oxfam GB’s education team introduces our inspiring new climate justice teaching materials for young people aged 9-16