Ashfaq Khalfan

Carbon Inequality Video Who is most responsible for the climate crisis?

🎬 Also featured at the event: The “Carbon Inequality” video, with 30 voices calling for climate justice.
👉 www.pollutingelite.earth
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #FairClimateFinance

📊 @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...

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

💰 @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...

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.

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) ...

YouTube video by oxfaminternational Taxation for Fair Climate Financing

At #ClimateWeekNYC I helped organize & moderate a panel on “Taxation for Fair Climate Financing” co-hosted by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social, @clubdemadrid.bsky.social & @globalsolidaritylevies.org profiling this global call.
🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFmB...

... 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.

Taxing Polluter Profits: A Call for Fair Climate Finance | Club de Madrid An Open Letter for Justice, Equality, and Climate Action

🔗 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 ...

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.

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...

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.

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... ​

This is just incredible.

(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.

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...

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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And how world powers are ignoring or deliberately downplaying genocide in Sudan.

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.

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!

Historic climate change ruling from the International Court of Justice: what it means for Africa The International Court of Justice says governments are legally obliged “to achieve deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions.

Excited to share my article titled “Historic climate change ruling from the 23 July 2025 @CIJ_ICJ International Court of Justice: what it means for Africa” has just been published in The Conversation, Africa
🔗 theconversation.com/historic-cli...

In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding

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...

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.

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...

The full judgement - 140 pages - is here: www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul....

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...

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.

10. People who have to seek safety in another country due to climate change cannot be returned where there are substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk of irreparable harm to the right to life (the principle of non-refoulement).

9. States do not lose their territorial rights due to sea level rise.

8. Climate finance can be litigated. The duty to cooperate is subject to a due diligence obligation. The Court says that a Court can review the adequacy of current financial and technology transfer commitments.

7. The Court recognizes that human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is essential for the enjoyment of other human rights. Implying this right is implicit under human rights treaties. There were strong arguments this was already the case, but the ICJ ends any argument.

6. States that fail in their duties to protect the climate can be required to provide reparation to affected countries based on the extent of their failure.

5. States can be held to account for their conduct that leads to emissions in other countries or their conduct that lets private parties off the hook.