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A giant bottle with a message that says Climate SOS and an Oxfam logo stit on the shoreline in Cornwall

8 Nov 2023

First Minister to attend COP28: Oxfam Scotland responds
An oil rig

7 Nov 2023

Climate action delays cost lives

26 Oct 2023

We must give young carers a better deal
Text reads: 'To end the invisibility of care, Scotland needs a new, dedicated National Outcome focused on all forms of care and all types of carers.'

26 Oct 2023

New data also suggests 1 in 3 Scots have caring responsibilities

16 Oct 2023

First Minister must use Scottish Budget to ‘kickstart a series of wholesale tax reforms’

27 Sep 2023

Approval of Rosebank oil field ‘a deplorable decision’

25 Sep 2023

Scotland’s Crisis Support in South Sudan
Diyaara in Wajir, Kenya

25 Sep 2023

Dozens died in drought-hit African region as Sunak gave his speech
An overhead shot of a flooded village is southeast Asia. Text reads 'Every ton of carbon we don't emit increased the chances of a livable planet.'

20 Sep 2023

UK Government climate U-turn ‘beggars belief’
Image of smoking chimneys with text layered over and behind saying it's time to make polluters pay for the climate crisis

18 Sep 2023

Transition to net-zero will be expensive, so the big polluters need to pay up
Text reads: The First Minister must act to make polluters pay

18 Sep 2023

First Minister’s climate credibility is on a knife edge: he must act to make polluters pay
Illustration of woman holding sign saying People and Planet over profit

18 Sep 2023

Fair taxes on the UK’s biggest polluters could have paid for significant expansion in free bus travel in Scotland