Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world to bring about lasting change.

Working directly with communities, Oxfam seeks to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.

Shifting seasons are destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger – but this is just one of the multiple climate change impacts taking their toll on the world’s poorest people.

We published our report Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty in July, ahead of the G8 Summit in Italy, where climate change and food security are high on the agenda, as a warning. Without immediate action 50 years of development gains in poor countries will be permanently lost. Climate-related hunger could be the defining human tragedy of this century.

'Suffering the Science' outlines evidence of how climate change is affecting every issue linked to poverty and development today including: hunger, agriculture, health, labor, water, disasters and displacement.