When did Oxfam start working on climate change?
Oxfam has been working on climate change for over 25 years. In 1983, Oxfam produced Weather Alert, a briefing paper that recorded the human impacts of various climate change anomalies affecting our programmes around the world. Then, in 1992, Oxfam discussed the special threat that climate change posed to people living in poverty, when climate change first became headline news after a UN summit in Brazil. What’s more, so much of our work and expertise – for example, responding to and preparing for natural disasters, or helping farmers to get better yields from their crops – is now inextricably linked with the changing climate.
