14-8-2025******EQUITY Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%. The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. Oxfam  November 19, 2023 The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty and other groups experiencing discrimination are particularly at a disadvantage. The consequences of climate breakdown are felt in all parts of the world and by most people, yet only the richest people and countries have the wealth, power and influence to protect themselves. With that power comes huge responsibility. If no action is taken, the richest will continue to burn through the carbon we have left to use while keeping the global temperature below the safe limit of 1.5°C, destroying any chance of ending poverty and ensuring equality. The world needs an equal transformation. Only a radical reduction in inequality, transformative climate action and fundamentally shifting our economic goals as a society can save our planet while ensuring wellbeing for all.

Greta Thunberg is a climate activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change. We are in an emergency. This year is on track to become the hottest on record. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. People are dying. Meanwhile, the world’s richest continue to get richer, exploiting people and the planet for their own gain. This report from Oxfam makes it glaringly clear: these are not separate issues. Climate breakdown and inequality are linked together and fuel each other. If we are to overcome one, we must overcome both. What we are seeing now is only the very beginning of a changing climate caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases. We are not equally to blame for these emissions, nor for the damage they cause. The richest 1% of the world’s population are responsible for as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest two-third ds of humanity. They have stolen our planet’s resources to fuel their lavish lifestyles. A short trip on a private jet will produce more carbon than the average person emits all year. They are sacrificing us at the altar of their greed. 
 
This report reveals a perverse reality: those who have done the least to cause the climate crisis are the ones who are suffering the most. And those who have done the most will likely suffer the least. The richest can insulate themselves from the damage they cause. They can escape to their multiple, air-conditioned homes. They can protect themselves against damage to their property. While those at the front lines, who are suffering because of the excesses of the richest, have nowhere to hide from the drought, flooding and relentless heat. Those with wealth and power have convinced themselves that some lives are worth more than others. Their lives do not matter anymore. The people most responsible for the climate crisis – mainly white, privileged men –are also the ones who have been given a leading role in getting us out of it. I have found myself with a front-row seat in the world’s corridors of power – at the UN, the World Economic Forum and in global climate negotiations. Here, I have seen first-hand that the people destroying our planet, the people at the core of the climate crisis, the  people heavily invested in fossil fuels, the people with the greatest wealth: somehow these people are the ones we rely on to solve our problems. How have we left the culprits in charge when there is so much at stake? Why are they in charge when time and again they have shown us that they prioritize their greed and short-term economic profits above people and planet? Is it any wonder progress is so slow? This injustice must end. With the policies we currently have in place, we are heading for 3.2° of global warming by the end of the century. This will result in disaster. If we are to have a chance of minimizing further irreparable damage to the planet, we must choose now.Either we safeguard living conditions for all future generations or we let a few very rich people maintain their destructive lifestyles and preserve an economic system geared towards short-term economic growth and shareholder profit.....read on & read the report     https://webassets.oxfamamerica.org/media/documents/cr-climate-equality-201123-en-summ.pdf?_gl=1*1flau1l*_gcl_au*OTcwODg3NzIyLjE3NTUxMTM5Mjk.*_ga*MTQ5MjIzNTE0NS4xNzU1MTEzOTI5*_ga_R58YETD6XK*czE3NTUxMTM5MjkkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTUxMTQyNDMkajU5JGwwJGgxMTQzMTQ2MTQx*_fplc*dkRLN0NPWUFWS2ppRXJ5NFlRdnlEZTFOQm1Td2Z1OGdtY0RCYWJ3UGp5Z3NZMnB2M3R1ejNFNE1LTDd6UjU0b1lCNWJJdHolMkZBWiUyRkkwNkhESXJUSUNiN1FDb29nSkxwUFhwciUyRnVVTjQ3bTd4cG5VV2FmeUtNWjlVZVNMWXFRJTNEJTNE