climate adaptation

The climate crisis is wrecking the lives of millions of people, and those who did the least to cause the problem are the worst affected. The global climate movement is fighting this injustice – and every one of us has a part to play. This year, join the virtual World Climate March to the COP26 UN Climate Summit by pledging to march 2000 steps for climate justice!

Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their homes. While no one is immune, it is overwhelmingly poor countries that are most at risk.

Leaders must heed climate strikes and give vulnerable people the tools to survive.

Advancing the right of people living in poverty to sustainable livelihoods has been a cornerstone of Oxfam’s work for many decades. Our goal is to enable millions of women and communities to become more resilient to a changing climate, and to secure access to the land and natural resources on which they depend.

Hunger is not and need never be inevitable. However climate change threatens to put back the fight to eradicate it by decades – and our global food system is woefully unprepared to cope with the challenge.

Burkina Faso relies on subsistence agriculture to meet the basic needs of a large part of the population.

Climate change has serious implications for global food production and food security. This report uses data on current changes and future climate scenarios to examine possible impa

Negotiators at the UN climate talks have narrowly avoided a collapse, agreeing to the bare minimum deal possible.

In the last year extreme weather events shocked global markets contributing to soaring wheat prices and imperiling food security in many parts of the world, according to research compiled by Oxfam at the start of the Durban climate talks.

Oxfam response to the Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (laun