Environmental Justice

12/11/2025: Oxfam and its activist partners at COP30 have delivered a petition demanding that the super-rich pay for climate damages. The petition is part of a global civil society campaign, which calls on governments to tax those who hold outsized responsibility for driving carbon emissions.

Source: Oxfam International

7/11/2025: The 30^th UN Climate Change Conference is taking place after two consecutive years of record-high global temperatures, and at a time when international relationships are being strained by wars and trade disputes. Here are six issues that delegates are expected to grapple with in Brazil.

Source: UN Environment Programme

7/11/2025: Architects of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, to be promoted at COP30 in Brazil, hope to secure $125 billion from sovereign and institutional investors, creating a permanent tropical forest conservation fund. Surplus yields will be divided among qualifying forest countries, with priority for Indigenous and local communities.

Source: Mongabay

5/11/2025: Amnesty International calls on governments attending COP30 to resist aligning with US President Trump’s denial of the accelerating climate crisis. It also appeals for significant new climate finance, in the form of grants, not loans, from states that are the worst culprits for greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Amnesty International

5/11/2025: The Baku to Belem Roadmap, published for the UN Climate Conference (COP30), aims to present how to increase climate finance for developing countries to at least US1.3 trillion annually by 2035. Greenpeace welcomes recognition that the UN tax convention could address concessional climate finance.

Source: Greenpeace International

31/10/2025: Total climate finance approvals for 2025 of $3.26 billion represent a record high for the Green Climate Fund, welcome news amid declining official development assistance and tightening global budgets. The Fund was established in 2010 to serve the Paris Agreement by increasing access to climate finance for developing countries.

Source: Devex

29/10/2025: The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that heat-related mortality has increased 23% since the 1990s, while droughts and heatwaves in 2023 are linked with an additional 124 million people facing moderate or severe food insecurity. 

Source: World Health Organization

29/10/2025: Climate adaptation finance needs in developing countries are 12 times the current amount of international support, according to the latest Adaptation Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme. International public adaptation finance flows to developing countries were $26 billion in 2023: down from $28 billion the previous year.

Source: UN Environment Programme

28/10/2025: New Oxfam research finds that a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year. If everyone emitted like the richest 0.1%, the global carbon budget would be used up in less than 3 weeks.

Source: Oxfam International

17/10/2025: Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme and the University of Oxford. The findings reveal that poverty is not just a socio-economic issue but one that is deeply interlinked with planetary pressures. South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are identified as global hotspots for these compounded hardships.

Source: UN Development Programme