What does climate change adaptation mean?
Climate change adaptation means communities, supported by governments, taking early action to reduce the damaging impact that climate change will have on their lives. Oxfam is already carrying out work to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change. For example, to cope with increased flooding in places like Bangladesh we are upgrading national flood early warning systems, building homes and schools on raised foundations, building high platforms for emergency flood shelters and creating community-based disaster response plans.
