REACTION: Oxfam response to the launch of the UK-led Clean Power Alliance

“The UK Government-led Clean Power Alliance is a welcome signal of its readiness to collaborate in tackling the climate emergency. But this Alliance must aim for more than just increased investment in renewable energy. It must also address the global inequalities at the heart of the climate crisis and ensure the transition to clean energy is not only fast but also fair.

“Human rights and environmental standards must be upheld at every stage. It should also be coupled with an ambitious global climate finance goal at COP29 ensuring good quality, public and grant-based finance in the scale of trillions for lower-income countries. Without this, efforts to address climate change risk reinforcing existing inequalities that leave low-income, low-emitting countries to bear the brunt of a crisis they did little to create.”