Papers and reports on climate change
2008
Turning up the heat: climate change and poverty in Uganda - July 2008
Coping with climate change: what works for women? - July 2008
Another Inconvenient Truth: How biofuel policies are deepening poverty and accelerating climate change (25 June 2008)
Credibility crunch - Food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders Link to paper in Debt and Aid Section (13 June 2008)
2007
Oxfam Analysis of the Bali Conference Outcomes (18 December 2007)
Financing adaptation: Why the UN's Bali climate conference must mandate the search for new funds Adapting to climate change in developing countries is likely to cost at least $50bn each year. Yet international funding efforts to date have been woeful. (4 December 2007)
Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites Climatic disasters are increasing as temperatures climb and rainfall intensifies. Yet even extreme weather need not bring disasters; it is poverty and powerlessness that make people vulnerable. (25 November 2007)
Asia - Up in smoke The fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development. The threat from climate change to human development and the environment. (19 November 2007)
Drought management considerations for climate change adaptation: Focus on the Mekong region Research report from the Ninh Thuan province of Viet Nam, undertaken by Oxfam Vietnam and Kyoto University, Japan (30 October 2007)
Two degrees, one chance: The urgent need to curb global warming This paper explains why global average temperature rise must be kept as far below 2°C as possible, how impacts on water resources, food production, and ecosystems become catastrophic above that threshold, and how dangerous feedback mechanisms are much more likely to kick in, resulting in even faster warming (7 June 2007)
Adapting to climate change: What's needed in poor countries, and who should pay (29 May 2007)
Response of Oxfam GB to the Consultation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (95K pdf) – to the UK Department for Transport’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) Consultation (17 May 2007)
World's poorest will be hardest hit by climate change (13K PDF file) The poorest people on the planet are especially vulnerable to climate change, though they have done very little to cause it. This point is made clearly in latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released 6 April 2007.
2006
Oxfam submission to the Stern report – Turkana and climate change (85K pdf file) – November 2006
Africa – Up in Smoke2 - October 2006 update
Latin America – Up in Smoke – joint agency paper – September 2006
Background research paper on the predicted climate change impacts of greatest relevance to Oxfam - paper prepared for Oxfam by Dr Jamie Lorimer (rtf file) - May 2006
2004
Up in Smoke? Threats from, and responses to, the impact of global warming on human development – joint agency paper - October 2004
Weathering the Storm: Lessons in Risk Reduction from Cuba – Oxfam America paper - April 2004
Glacier melt – why it matters for poor people – January 2004
pre-2004
A Challenging Climate for Oxfam - from Oxfam Exchange (produced by Oxfam America) - Autumn 2003 (75K pdf file)
Climate change: The Implications for Oxfam's Programme, Policies and Advocacy - October 2000
Weather Alert! Evidence of a hidden crisis for the world's poor - September 1983
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