As the climate changes, traditional community activities such as agriculture are threatened, leading to displacement and poverty. World Vision understands that by identifying the main causes of this phenomenon, we can work to reduce its impacts.

The causes of climate change are increasingly understood to stem from the developed and developing world's overuse of fossil fuels. The warming of the planet - though it may seem like minor temperature increases - has major effects on climate. Warmer, wetter weather, more severe droughts, more destructive storms and rising sea levels create widespread disruption for people who survive on the land.

This disruption often results in ripples that spread far beyond the site of the initial changes. Displacement, overcrowding, regional disputes and violence, reduced access to fertile land and spreading food insecurity - these are consequences of climate change we can already recognise.

World Vision is committed to lobbying governments to take urgent and wide-reaching action on reducing carbon emissions. At the same time, we are dedicating significant resources to alleviating the worst impacts of climate change in many communities that have alredy felt its devestating effects.