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From Refugee to Farmer: Uganda’s Model for Empowering Displaced Communities

3BL Media

The Refugee Act (2006) was created using humanitarian principles as a guide for government’s refugee response plan. The World Bank reports that modernizing farming techniques and focusing on climate-resilient crops will be essential to support food security and the prosperity of Uganda’s agriculture sector.

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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.

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Action Against Hunger Appoints Five New Board Members To Help Address the Global Hunger Crisis

3BL Media

Rachel was SVP and Group Managing Director of the Time Warner Investments Group and spent several years in investment banking within the M&A group at Morgan Stanley and the Media and Telecommunications group at Credit Suisse. Rob held earlier investment banking and equity research roles at Goldman Sachs and Raymond James.

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments. Smaller and nimbler, cities are becoming showpieces of successful climate action, and the protagonists of this spectacle of municipal leadership are increasingly women.

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Abbott and Partners Going Beyond Disaster Relief to Disaster Resilience

3BL Media

So that’s exactly what we did in 2006 – launching two initiatives to support health clinics and food banks in advance of hurricane season. In the first year of the partnership in 2006, the Direct Relief modules contained only Abbott products.

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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

Corporate Knights

A convoy of tractors was making its way to a Dutch government building in February when Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted out his support for farmers revolting against the EU’s regulatory push to drive down climate emissions: “I’m pro-environment, but I support the farmers! Farming has no material effect on climate change.”

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Cashing In on Sustainability: A Blended Finance Program Aims to Fight Climate Change by Catalyzing SME Investment in the Peruvian Amazon

James Militzer

According to Peru’s Ministry of Environment’s National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Peru (and the world) have lost an average of roughly 100,000 hectares of forest per year since 2006. In fact, they are banking on it. These losses have only accelerated.