Ashfaq Khalfan
@ashfaqkhalfan.bsky.social
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Director, Sustainability Regulation Obsevatory, London School of Economics, Senior Fellow, Oxfam America
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🎬 Also featured at the event: The “Carbon Inequality” video, with 30 voices calling for climate justice.
👉 www.pollutingelite.earth
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #FairClimateFinance
Carbon Inequality Video
Who is most responsible for the climate crisis?
www.pollutingelite.earth
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📊 @greenpeace.org@oxfaminternational.bsky.social survey across 11 countries, covering more than half of the world's population, shows 8 in 10 people want oil & gas giants taxed to pay for climate loss & damage.
🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Global survey finds 8 out of 10 people support taxing oil and gas corporations to pay for climate damages | Oxfam International
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💰 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social research: fossil fuel giants are making record profits while cutting renewable investments:
BP −73%
Shell −37%
Equinor −41%
A polluter profits tax on 590 firms could raise $400 billion in year 1.
🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/blogs/ric...
Rich polluter profits tax could raise up to $400 billion and help phase out fossil fuels | Oxfam International
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Blair Horner @nypirg.bsky.social
@abbymaxman.bsky.social (@oxfamamerica.bsky.social).

Momentum is building with NY’s fossil Superfund law and growing international support for permanent polluter profit taxes.
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Speakers:
Mari Kiviniemi (ex-PM Finland)
Yussuf Hussein (Kenya Climate Envoy Office)
Arthur Bauer (French Mission to the UN)
@fredroder.bsky.social (@globalsolidaritylevies.org)
Diego Casaes (Climate Emergency Collaboration Group)
Marinel Ubaldo (Climate Activist) ...
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... Peru, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and Tunisia.
plus former heads of @un.org, @ilo.org & OECD.
They are from left, centre & right showing how non-controversial this should be.
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🔗 Full letter: clubmadrid.org/taxing-pollu...
Signatories include ex-leaders from: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Guinea, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Norway, Panama, Peru ...
Taxing Polluter Profits: A Call for Fair Climate Finance | Club de Madrid
An Open Letter for Justice, Equality, and Climate Action
clubmadrid.org
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38 former heads of govt & global orgs have issued a bold call for a permanent polluter profits tax to fund climate action — from every region of the world. 🌍💰
🔗 www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
Former world leaders call for permanent taxes on oil and gas profits
During an energy price crisis in 2022, similar taxes raised billions, the authors argue.
www.euronews.com
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At #ClimateWeekNYC, I opened the “Taxation for Fair Climate Financing” panel organized with @clubdemadrid.bsky.social & @globalsolidaritylevies.org.

It featured a call from 38 former heads of state for permanent polluter profit taxes.
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(Note that we are at capacity for physical attendance). I look forward to a discussion on how permanent profit taxes on fossil fuel companies can be a key solution to ending inequality, raising resources for climate action and to advance the switch to renewables.
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Are you interested in Taxation for Fair Climate Financing? Please view the livestream of an event Wednesday, 24 September from 2-4 pm New York time where I will moderate a distinguished panel. Link here: www.youtube.com/live/osgv-EV...
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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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the thing that trans people ask of the world is so tiny, really. just to be able to exist as the person they are, without the rest of us being weird or cruel about it. it's a deep shame on our society that we are unable to deliver on so small a thing.
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One of the few things I'm absolutely sure of is that there's nothing wrong with being trans. We're just a type of person. We deserve equality because all people deserve equality.
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I joined 300,000 people today in London who marched to @10dowingstreet.bsky.social to demand an end to Keir Starmer's and David Lammy's
complicity in and manifest failure to prevent the #GazaGenocide. We need trade sanctions and an arms embargo now!
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Trump’s attempt to overturn the EPA’s endangerment finding is climate denial of the highest order. This move threatens one of the most important tools we have to protect people from climate pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding
www.nytimes.com
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Gaza is suffering the worst stages of famine, the @theipcinfo.bsky.social warns today.

World leaders must break Israel's siege & allow humanitarian aid to enter - now.

Our reaction👇
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Today’s warning of an unfolding famine – one created entirely by Israel’s murderous siege – must finally rouse the international community to act with a clarity and resolve that has so far been beyond it. A quote by Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam's Policy lead in the Occupied Palestinian territory.
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That’s OK - Many official human rights treaty bodies say countries are responsible for their climate failures and the resulting impacts on people outside their borders. @oxfaminternational.bsky.social described them here: climatecasechart.com/wp-content/u...
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11. Human rights treaties can apply to a State’s conduct that affects people outside their borders, if the text of the treaty provides for this. The Court doesn’t say which treaties apply.