Green, fair, and caring: A feminist roadmap for Wales, full report

Parken, Alison and MacBride-Stewart, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1562-9536 2025. Green, fair, and caring: A feminist roadmap for Wales, full report. [Online]. Oxfam: Oxfam Cymru. Available at: https://wales.oxfam.org.uk/documents/1059/Green-fa...

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Abstract

Wales is facing a defining moment. With the climate emergency deepening, inequality widening, and public services under sustained pressure, it is clear that the current economic model is no longer fit for purpose. This manifesto, develop At Oxfam Cymru, we believe that poverty and inequality cannot be tackled in isolation from the fight for gender and climate justice. Across the world, those who contribute least to the climate crisis— particularly women, people living in poverty, and communities marginalised on the basis of gender, race, class, disability, or migration status — are the ones who bear its greatest costs. That is why Oxfam’s global strategy commits us to advancing feminist, decolonial alternatives that place care for people and planet at the heart of economic transformation. Green, Fair, and Caring” A Feminist Roadmap for Wales Also in this section Care Policy Scorecard Wales 2025 A Wales that Cares for People and Planet Feminist Scorecard Wales Little Steps, Big Struggles Wellbeing Economy Wales Green, Fair, and Caring A Vision for a Just Cymru This report contributes to a global vision for a green new deal by grounding it in the Welsh context. It recognises that the economic and climate crises are deeply interconnected as interlocking consequences of unjust systems—patriarchy, neoliberalism, and extractive economics—that exploit people while degrading the environment. Within this, the undervaluing of care—both paid and unpaid—illustrates how these systems rely on exploitation while failing to sustain the very foundations of our societies. A just transition must therefore be feminist: tackling inequality at its roots, revaluing care as essential social infrastructure, and ensuring no one is left behind. Grounded in Wales’s own context, including the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 and the momentum toward a wellbeing economy, this discussion paper sets out practical proposals across four key areas—social care, work, transport, and energy. These recommendations call on government, public services, and civil society to act now to shape a fairer, greener future. This paper envisions an economy that nurtures both people and planet: where care is recognised as a human right and public good, and where decisions are guided not by short-term profit for the few but by long-term wellbeing for everyone. We hope it sparks the urgent conversations and political action needed to build a fairer, greener, and more caring Wales—whilst standing in solidarity with global struggles for justice across the Global South and beyond.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Oxfam Cymru
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2026 11:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183941

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