More frequent and extreme weather – such as storms and droughts – are destroying homes, and wrecking lives and livelihoods. What’s more, the world’s poorest people have done the least to cause it.

Over recent decades there’s been huge progress in the fight against poverty. But climate change is threatening to reverse this progress. In fact, Oxfam believes that the climate emergency is the biggest, most urgent threat to the fight against poverty.

It is an injustice that can and must be stopped.

• Oxfam is a member of the climate coalition, the UK’s largest group of people dedicated to action against climate change
• We push big emitters to stop contributing to the problem and live up to their commitments to fund solutions
• Every year Oxfam runs #SecondHandSeptember asking people to say less to new items of clothing and shop in charity shops

Leaders promised that they would provide 100bn a year by 2020 in financial assistance from higher-income to low-income countries. We track that every couple of years and lift the lid on where it’s going. We ask - is it benefitting the people it’s meant to benefit?

In Zimbabwe rains used to come regularly, people used to name the rains every year.

They’ve stopped doing that because the rains come late or there’s a little trickle then there are dry spells.

Farmers are left guessing about when they can plant. They’re also having to shift away from crops that they’re very used to growing - like maize, to newer, smaller grains.

We work with small-scale farmers to help them have access to drought-resistant seeds. Seeds that are locally adapted.

We could say it’s the same fight. Fighting climate change and fighting poverty. Because it’s the people who are already vulnerable who are going to be worse and who are being affected first and worst by climate change. You know, if you’re one of the 70% of farmers that relies on rains to grow their crop or if you have no insurance  to fall back on or no savings and especially if you are a woman and maybe you don’t own your land and you can’t do any farming based on investment – it's vulnerable people who are facing the brunt of climate change.