Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2009

Climate change: time to get down to business

September 2009

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

Climate change affects poor people first and worst. It is a major obstacle to development and poverty alleviation, as well as a serious threat to business supply chains and markets in developing countries. Oxfam believes that companies can help to determine whether the world wins or loses the fight against climate changes.