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Climate change is an issue that has direct human implications that result in loss of life, increased disease, increased hunger, and increased instability in already volatile regions. Oxfam Action Corps Indianapolis is tackling this issue head on by empowering a grassroots effort to bring the human face to climate change. An imperative component is a comprehensive climate change bill that stops harming through the cutting of emissions and starts helping by providing funding to poor communities around the world that are disproportionately impacted.

Oxfam Action Corps Indianapolis has taken their message to Indiana elected officials, such as Senator Lugar, Senator Bayh, and Representative Carson. The message is clear that a comprehensive climate change bill needs to be passed and that an intrical component is the inclusion of adaptation funding now to help communities around the world cope with their changing environments. This funding looks like mangroves being planted to provide a natural barrier to flooding and irrigation systems and agricultural innovations to allow farmers to respond to drought conditions. These investments need to be significant and sizable to ensure that resiliency can be built now and prevent increased expenditures later to deal with more disastrous outcomes.

Oxfam Action Corps needs you to speak for the millions of people around the globe dealing everyday with the crisis of climate change as a vote may be taken in the Senate as soon as July 12th. Click here to take an e-action today.