Fight Climate Poverty

• 150,000 people die every year due to climate change (World Health Organisation)
• 100 million people will be flooded by the end of the century
• 30 million people may be hungry because of climate change by 2050

Climate change has begun,and its effects are more obvious by the day – ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and natural disasters are more frequent.

This is a serious threat to people in rich countries. But for people in poor countries with limited resources to cope, it’s an utter disaster – and it’s a disaster that’s already beginning to unfold.

What's the solution?

Action on climate change, on a global scale – now.

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Why campaign on climate change?

Poverty will deepen unless we tackle climate change – immediately.

Why?

Because it’s already hitting millions of vulnerable people in developing countries – where drought, flooding, hunger and disease are becoming more common than ever. 

Oxfam sees the impact extreme and unpredictable weather is having on people’s homes and livelihoods in poor communities all over the world.

Poor people will simply get poorer unless something is done, fast.

More about why Oxfam is campaigning on climate change

How we're doing it

Oxfam has launched a major campaign calling on world leaders to stop climate change in its tracks.

Rich countries accept global warming is driven by pollution from their industries – they must now reduce greenhouse emissions without delay.

They should also help poor nations cope with the damaging effects of climate change.

And so that things don’t get even worse, rich countries must urgently agree policies and targets to stop global warming.

It’s not too late – we can contain climate change and prevent catastrophe, if we act together, now.

Success

In December 2007, Oxfam attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

The signatures of more than 100,000 Oxfam supporters, who had demanded global action on climate change, were handed into the UK Government in the run up to the conference.

During the conference, world leaders made progress on making sure developing countries receive the money and resources they need to adapt to climate change.

However, we still didn't get the new climate deal the world urgently needs in order to reduce emissions enough to keep global warming at less than 2°C.

How poor countries won the day in the UN climate conference

What now

The next stop for our climate campaigning is the G8 meeting of world leaders, taking place in Japan in July 2008. Oxfam will be there, keeping the pressure on to make sure the needs of the world's poorest people are at the heart of climate negotiations.