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The Climate Crisis is Being Fueled by Inequality, and the Rich are Burning Through Our Future

Climate Change

Let’s be honest – it’s exhausting watching the same story play out again and again. The rich are getting richer. The planet is getting hotter, and those who’ve done the…

From verandas to veggies: How Ugandan women are turning small spaces into sustainable farms

  • Climate Change
  • Women’s Economic Justice

In Uganda, women like Nakato are transforming verandas and courtyards into thriving gardens, growing food, earning income, and leading the way for community change. As COP30 begins, Ugandan women and…

A woman harvests greens from her garden in Kampala, Uganda.

Summer 2025: Compounding Climate Disasters

  • Climate Change
  • Emergency Response
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Natural Disasters
  • People
  • Refugees and Internal Displacement

While Canada faced widespread drought and above-normal temperatures this summer, climate-related disasters around the world reached alarming levels.

A father carries his son across a broken bamboo bridge on the edge of Balhukali camp, Bangladesh. Three days of heavy rains flooded many of the areas where people had set up temporary shelters, forcing them to move to higher ground. Photo Credit: Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville

Supporting Climate-Smart and Inclusive Rice Farming in Vietnam

  • Climate Change
  • Hunger
  • Women’s Economic Justice

Oxfam Canada just launched a new project called Go-Rice, which aims to help Vietnam, one of the world’s top rice producers, reduce the environmental footprint of rice production while advancing…

GoRice is supporting sustainable, low-carbon rice farming in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (An Giang, Can Tho, and Vinh Long provinces) by promoting climate-smart practices, fair carbon markets, and stronger climate policies.

Building a Canada that Works for Everyone: Oxfam Canada’s Recommendations for the Upcoming Federal Budget

Advocacy in Canada

As the federal government readies to table its next budget the stakes could not be higher. We are living through a time of profound uncertainly. Around the world, armed conflicts,…

Building a Canada that Works for Everyone: Oxfam Canada’s Recommendations for the Upcoming Federal Budget

Rich polluter profits tax could raise up to $400 billion and help phase out fossil fuels

Climate Change

Oxfam reveals fossil fuel giants made $583B in 2024 profits amid rising climate harms. Strong public support in Canada backs a new 'polluter profit tax' to fund climate recovery and…

Global survey finds 8 out of 10 people support taxing oil and gas corporations to pay for climate damages

  • Climate Change
  • Natural Disasters

Ottawa, 19 June – A majority of people believe governments must tax oil, gas and coal corporations for climate-related loss and damage, and that their government is not doing enough…

Hunger skyrockets by nearly 80 percent in Eastern and Southern Africa over past five years amidst worsening water crisis

Water

Nearly 116 million people in eight African countries, hardest hit by severe water crises, lack access to drinking water. Globally, flash floods have become 20 times more frequent between 2000…

Why extreme inequality must be at the top of the agenda at Davos 2025

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • People

Wealth inequality is not just a statistic, it’s a daily reality for billions of people struggling to survive while watching the super-rich exploit people and planet for their profits. Oxfam’s…

Why extreme inequality must be at the top of the agenda at Davos 2025

Richest 1% burn through their entire annual carbon limit in just 10 days

Climate Change

The richest 1 percent have burned through their share of the annual global carbon budget -the amount of CO2 that can be added to the atmosphere without pushing the world…

COP29 deal is a “global Ponzi scheme”: Oxfam

Climate Change

Responding to the COP29 climate finance agreement, in which rich countries agree to mobilize $300 billion a year to help Global South countries cope with warming temperatures and switch to…

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