Aliko Dangote

Flood deaths this year have reached their highest level since 2013, while monthly temperature records have been broken in more than 100 countries, reveals new analysis by Oxfam. The findings come as 87 private jets have so far landed at Antalya Airport in Türkiye during the UN climate summit (COP31).

The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power. If current trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years.