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Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · 8h

💰 EU billionaires’ wealth surged by €400 billion in just six months — that’s over €2 billion a day.

Meanwhile, ordinary Europeans are paying the price.

Our new report shows how decades of tax policies have favored the super-rich 👇

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#TaxTheRich #ECOFIN

Oxfam EU @oxfameu.bsky.social · 13h

📢 EU Billionaires’ wealth surges by over €400bn in first half of 2025.

That’s over €2bn a day.

🔗https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/eu-billionaires-wealth-surges-over-eu400-billion-first-half-2025

#TaxTheRich

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 1d

New @equalshope.bsky.social’s episode is out: How Much Wealth is Too Much?

Philosopher @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social explains why we need a wealth limit & how billionaires are quietly breaking democracy.

🎧 Listen here 👉 www.equals.ink/p/how-much-w...

How Much Wealth Is Too Much? Ingrid Robeyns on the Case for Limitarianism

Listen now (31 mins) | Inequality, Democracy, and the Case for Limiting Extreme Wealth.

www.equals.ink

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 3d

Ahead of #COP30, we call on wealthy nations to stop crisis profiteering and deliver real support in grants, not debt traps. Frontline communities need justice, not another bill.

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 3d

📢Two thirds of climate finance is loans, as rich countries profiteer 💸from climate crisis.

New research by Oxfam and CARE finds poor countries are paying back 7 USD for every 5 they receive in climate funding.
Read the full report: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 13d

A fair energy future is not just a policy goal. It’s a moral obligation and a historical debt.

👉 Read the report for more policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/un...

Unjust Transition: Reclaiming the energy future from climate colonialism - Oxfam Policy & Practice

The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them. Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of extract...

policy-practice.oxfam.org

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 13d

As COP30 approaches in the Amazon, we must recognize:

🌎 There is no climate justice without justice for the peoples of the Amazon.

✊🏽 The participation of Amazonian women, men, and youth is not optional. It is essential.

#EndClimateColonialism #makerichpolluterspay
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Save The Amazon, Save Our Future

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 13d

The Amazon is not just a forest. Its home to 2Million + indigenous people, 20% of the worlds fresh water & helps stabilize the climate.

Protecting the Amazon is protecting our future.

🌳Read Oxfam's Latest Climate Report to learn more: oxf.am/3W68E2o%F0%9...

#EndClimateColonialism

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 13d

Israeli attacks kill Oxfam partner colleague, destroy clinics in Gaza.

Israel’s destruction of 3 Oxfam partner premises this week underscores the threat to Gaza’s humanitarian workers and facilities, including services to protect pregnant women. oxf.am/gaza-partner...

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 14d

The energy transition is already being built by communities, workers, women & indigenous people creating renewable systems that put people and planet before profit.

🚨Read Oxfam's Latest Report to learn more: oxf.am/3W68E2o

#EndClimateColonialism #MakeRichPollutersPay

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 14d

The richest 10% consumed half of all global energy in the last decade while the poorest 50% consumed just 8%, yet face the worst climate impacts.

The math is clear: the super rich and historic polluters must pay for a just transition.

🚨Read Oxfam's Latest Report to learn more: oxf.am/3W68E2o

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 14d

The shift to renewable energy could heal deep inequalities fuelling the climate crisis, or deepen them. The latest Oxfam report reveals a harsh truth: without justice, the green transition risks repeating colonial patterns of exploitation.

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Who Benefits from the Green Transition? #shorts

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Read Oxfam's Latest Report: oxf.am/3W68E2o

#EndClimateColonialism #MakeRichPollutersPay

Unjust Transition: Reclaiming the energy future from climate colonialism - Oxfam Policy & Practice

The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them. Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of extract...

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 14d

A just transition is more than renewables.

It means cutting overconsumption, cancelling unjust debts, taxing extreme wealth and holding historic polluters accountable with debt cancellation and reparations.

Energy must serve people, not profit.
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A just transition is more than shifting to renewable energy.

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 15d

For every #ElectricVehicle that contains about 3kg of cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tesla earns approximately $3,150 in profit. While the DRC government receives less than $10 in royalties and the average miner earns just $7!

📢 Read our new report to learn more: oxf.am/3W68E2o

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 15d

New EQUALS episode. Trade Unions: A Force for Good.

From Korea to Ukraine to the UK, unions are standing strong against war, repression & austerity.

Their message is clear: Unions aren’t just about wages — they’re about defending democracy and dignity.

🎧 Tune in: www.equals.ink/p/trade-unio...

A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy.

How Trade Unions are fighting for dignity and democracy in wartime, repression and austerity.

www.equals.ink

Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 21d

Oxfam joins the call to democratize global economic and financial governance, to make trade, investment, and tax systems just and fair, and to redistribute wealth and power — for life, for people, for the planet.

Learn more at drawtheline.world

#FightInequality #MakeRichPollutersPay #DrawTheLine

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 24d

Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank violate international law and devastate Palestinian lives. Trade with these settlements sustains the occupation.

It’s time to ban settlement trade.

www.oxfam.org/en/stop-trad...

#StopSettlementTrade #EndTheOccupation

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 28d

A leading activist from Brazil’s afro-traditional communities, Erica Monteiro reminds us: protecting the forest is protecting life.

She’s joining Oxfam’s Make Rich Polluters Pay campaign to call for climate reparations + justice.

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#MakeRichPo#MakeRichPollutersPay

Meet Erica Monteiro - #MakeRichPollutersPay

In this powerful interview, activist Erica shares what inspired her to join the Make Rich Polluters Pay campaign. Speaking from her lived experience as part...

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · 29d

Democracy is under siege and billionaires are pulling the strings.

In the latest episode @equalshope.bsky.social talk with @ituc.bsky.social's Luc Triangle about the fight against inequality & the threat of this ‘billionaire coup.’

Listen now: www.equals.ink/p/workers-vs...

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350.org @350.org · 29d

HAPPENING TODAY! 👉 And we've got a new speaker on board, Dr. Tarek Loubani, a Canadian-Palestinian physician who recently returned from Gaza and serves on the board of Greenpeace Canada.

Don't miss it!

Sign up to reserve your place 🔗 350org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · Sep 1

Deep aid cuts since the start of 2025 have pushed the humanitarian response in DRC to the brink of failure.

Cuts to lifesaving aid put millions at risk. Stronger humanitarian support is urgently needed.

#CourageInCrisis

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · Aug 30

The numbers speak for themselves.

While the ultra-rich sail on superyachts, millions across MENA suffer from deadly heat, drought & rising food costs.

Oxfam’s report exposes the climate injustice at play.

🌍✊ Time for polluters to pay up.

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · Aug 27

Across Asia, communities face rising seas & heatwaves, but funding remains unjust & out of reach.

We're demanding fair, realistic support to help people adapt & survive

asia.oxfam.org/get-involved...

#FinanceForAsia

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · Aug 26

#PlantTheFunds — a campaign from Asia, for climate justice everywhere.

Millions are losing land & livelihoods to climate disasters yet receive the least support.
We’re demanding real funds, real justice, real action.

#FinanceForAsia #AsiaRising

asia.oxfam.org/get-involved...

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Oxfam International @oxfaminternational.bsky.social · Aug 24

4 billionaires = more wealth than 750M people. 

 
This is policy failure but together, we can fix it.  

 
📢 Read the new Oxfam report:  www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... 

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