24 November 2011
The world's poorest people will be first hit and hit hardest by climate change. Droughts, floods and famines are already taking their toll.
In view of climate change, the world has a real chance to take a new approach to solving global problems and seizing global opportunities.
As the UN Conference on Climate Change in Durban approaches, DFID continues to concentrate efforts on protecting forests, helping poor countries to adapt to the changing climate and on supporting countries in low carbon development.
These three infographics show some of the action being taken and what results are being achieved.
Forests
How many people around the world depend on forests for their livelihood? Deforestations counts for how much of global total carbon emissions?
And how large is the area of forests we have helped to protect over the past ten years?
Click to enlarge this infographic for the answers. The graphic will open in a new window.
Rice
Rice production is vulnerable to weather shocks and climate change. Droughts, floods, higher temperatures and rising sea levels can all have a massive effect on rice production.
But how many people around the world rely on rice as a staple crop? What kind of rice can survive under water and for how long?
How much rice can be lost to monsoon flooding?
Click to enlarge this infographic for the answers. The graphic will open in a new window.
Clean energy
Did you know the poorest have the lowest carbon footprint and yet the worst impacts of global warming will be felt most by those people who contributed to it the least?
Find out how much carbon one of our programmes will avoid over the next 25 years.
Click to enlarge this infographic for the answers. The graphic will open in a new window.