Why is Oxfam taking action on Climate Change?

Angelique Orr, Oxfam's Climate Change Campaign Manager looks at the reasons why Oxfam is taking action on Climate Change, the links between poverty and climate change and how the poorest people are being the most severely affected.

South Asia floods

Made homeless

Jenna Meredith can empathise more than most with the 4.5 million people made homeless by flooding in South Asia after her home in Hull, UK, was hit by flooding earlier this year. She travelled to Orissa in eastern India with Oxfam to meet families who have lost their homes. If we do not act to prevent further climate change, weather conditions like this are likely to become even more frequent and severe in coming years. And the world's poorest people will be hit first and hardest.