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Five Ways Climate Change Is Impacting Humanitarian Crises Around the World

3BL Media

The effects of climate change are all around us. Yet those most affected by climate change are already vulnerable populations, many of whom are living in some of the poorest countries in the world. Climate-driven extreme weather emergencies such as storms and droughts can damage crops and lead to massive food shortages.

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Lebanon’s Breaking Point: A Call for Humanitarian Action

3BL Media

We are enduring the most intense and deadliest exchange of fire since the 2006 armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon’s 558 casualties on 23 September alone represent half the total number of deaths experienced in the entire 2006 conflict. But previous crises pale compared to the scale of violence in the last few weeks.

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Core collection: Facing climate change

Environmental News Bits

Booklist published its first core collection on climate change in 2006, and all of the books listed there are still urgently important because the reality of global warming is still being denied in spite of ever-rising planetary temperatures and the ever-worsening impacts of climate change.

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Responsible Business Alliance Advances Climate Change Mitigation Efforts in Global Supply Chains

3BL Media

The RBA’s more than 200 core corporate members across multiple industries and tens of thousands of their suppliers worldwide, combined with the Optera platform, makes the RBA program uniquely positioned to transform the industry’s response to climate change. That’s the kind of scale we need to move the needle on climate change.”.

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Should corporations be activists?

Corporate Knights

The co-author of Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering, to be released this year, offers his admittedly unpopular remedy: global government intervention to price carbon and embrace renewable energy. How do we propel companies beyond “islands of sustainability”?

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Five ways climate change is impacting humanitarian crises around the world

Cisco CSR

The effects of climate change are all around us. Yet those most affected by climate change are already vulnerable populations, many of whom are living in some of the poorest countries in the world. Climate-driven extreme weather emergencies such as storms and droughts can damage crops and lead to massive food shortages.

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Inogen Alliance Presents at COP29 in Azerbaijan

3BL Media

Blue Zone events: WATER RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE. This SVA framework, designed to evaluate the effects of climate change on water resources—from supply chains to distribution networks—has been applied in over 800 locations globally.