Oxfam campaigns for climate action and works with partners to bring the voices of communities affected by climate change into international negotiations and discussions, to ensure global temperature increases are kept below 1.5C and that people living in developing countries are supported to adapt.

Oct 28, 2024 · We support people affected by the climate crisis to participate in adaptation, risk and development planning. And we work to ensure that development planning addresses the causes of vulnerability and the climate crisis – and so integrates the issue of climate change across all our work.

For over a decade, Oxfam has campaigned to raise awareness of the unequal effects of climate change and to urge global leaders to take action. We are proud to be an organization fighting climate change with allies to address the root causes and impacts of this crisis.

Oxfam plays a key role in securing a commitment for 50% of the Green Climate Fund to be allocated to much-needed climate adaptation. The UK is the first country in the world to commit 50% of its climate finance to adaptation.

An Oxfam audit of the World Bank’s 2017-2023 climate finance portfolio found that between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate finance went unaccounted for between the time projects were approved and when they closed.

Climate change is doing irreversible harm to people and our planet. The major culprits, fossil fuel corporations and the world's super-rich, are accumulating huge profits and great fortunes while ordinary people bear the devastating consequences.

The effects of climate change—driven by the extraction and burning of fossil fuels—are unequally felt by marginalized frontline communities. That’s why Oxfam defends the rights of communities and people affected by oil, gas, and mining projects in more than 30 countries.

Climate change is affecting agriculture, but we can reduce climate-warming emissions and help farmers adapt to ensure we have nutritious food in the future. Oxfam and the Keepers Zambia Foundation are helping people survive this deadly mix.

Climate change is a human-induced crisis that is reversing progress made inthe fight against poverty and inequality, and worsening conflicts and disasters worldwide. In its annual report for 2022-23, Oxfam explains how it is working for climate justice.

Nov 20, 2023 · The richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity says Oxfam's report Climate Equality: A Planet for the 99%, published ahead of the UN Climate Summit, COP28.