El Nino Key Messages: Urgent action now can prevent major suffering and loss
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2015-11-20Country
BoliviaColombia
Cook Islands
El Salvador
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Fiji
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Indonesia
Kenya
Kiribati
Malawi
Nicaragua
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Tonga
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu
Zimbabwe
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Oxfam InternationalDocument type
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Millions of poor and vulnerable people face hunger and poverty this year and next because of record global temperatures, droughts and erratic rains in 2014 and 2015, followed by the development of possibly the most powerful El Niño on record.
This briefing makes the case to urgently scale up humanitarian response in countries already in crisis. It also draws on the experience of the super El Nino in 1997–98, and the inadequate response to the Horn of Africa drought of 2011, to push for early action to save livelihoods elsewhere.
Long-term approaches to reduce food insecurity must be found, and climate change, which is super-charging the effects of El Niño, must be tackled at the UN climate conference in Paris and beyond.