OXFAM

Oxfam GB is a leading aid and development charity with a worldwide reputation for excellence and over 60 years of experience, working with partners in more than 70 countries

Everyone has the right to a life worth living – and to the basic things that make one possible. This belief shapes everything we do. Oxfam is already helping people to cope with severe climate events worldwide – and plan for the future. In Indonesia, for example, we supplied emergency relief during floods in early 2007. We now work with communities there preparing for any flooding to come. But Oxfam doesn’t wait for emergencies. Poor communities around the world are already adapting to climate change – and with our help, are improving their chances of beating poverty. In South Africa, for example, farmers are planting faster-maturing crops, making the most of less-reliable rains. In Bangladesh, villagers are creating floating vegetable gardens, to protect their livelihoods against flooding. And in Viet Nam, communities are planting dense mangroves along the coast, to diffuse storm waves. Global warming can be tackled, and disaster avoided, if world leaders act together, and act soon.