The scene in the Los Angeles area over the last week has become heartbreakingly familiar — people on the run and watching helplessly as unrelenting flames destroy the suburban sprawl of homes and…
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Why the LA Fires and Others are Harder to Contain
The Conversation Jan 14, 2025Investigators are trying to determine what caused several wind-driven wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes across the Los Angeles area in January 2025. Given the fires’ locations, and lack…
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Climate Change Drives Wildfires in Los Angeles
Yale Climate Connections Jan 13, 2025The wildfires affecting the Los Angeles area have raised state and national concerns due to their rapid spread and intensity, driven by extreme weather conditions and prolonged droughts. Amid this…
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Climate Realism: A Lens to Contextualize the Los Angeles Fires
Council on Foreign Relations Jan 13, 2025The wildfires raging through Southern California neighborhoods from the Pacific Palisades to Pasadena are horrifying and tragic. I feel profound sadness for my friends who have lost homes and businesses.…
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Pastoralists, Food Security, and the Livestock Emissions Debate
Global Washington Jan 10, 2025Mercy Corps is adding a critical perspective to the livestock emissions debate, emphasizing the potential benefits of pastoralists, or those who move herds across land, in drylands and opening a…
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Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Funding Resilience in a Changing World
Stanford Social Innovation Review Jan 8, 2025One glimpse at the August 2024 wildfire incident map of Western North America and one might have thought half the continent was on fire, demonstrating the need to confront the wildfire…
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Milken Institute Jan 6, 2025The world needs every tool at its disposal to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. COP29 brought the urgent need for investments in climate adaptation into stark relief, and…
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What Climate Disasters Cost in 2024
Ecowatch Jan 6, 2025The most financially costly climate disasters around the world in 2024 produced $229 billion in damages and killed 2,000 people, according to Counting the Cost 2024: A year of climate breakdown, the most…
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7 Philanthropic Sector Insights for 2025
Forbes Jan 1, 2025As 2025 approaches, the world stands at a crossroads. From climate action to housing solutions, the year ahead promises both innovations and setbacks. Here are seven transformative, actionable philanthropic sector…
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Climate Saviorism: The Role of Philanthropy in Its Limitations
Nonprofit Quarterly Dec 13, 2024On June 11, 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 12-year-old Canadian youth organizer Severn Cullis-Suzuki addressed the United Nations regarding climate saviorism: I am here to…
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Scaling Climate Action: The Role of Philanthropy
PR Newswire Dec 9, 2024Climate funding surged 20% in 2023, outpacing the overall growth in global philanthropic giving for the first time since 2020, according to ClimateWorks Foundation’s 2024 Funding Trends Report. This fifth edition…
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Climate Adaptation Technologies: How Social Investors Can Improve Asia’s Climate Resilience
Jakarta Globe Dec 6, 2024“Does anyone here believe that we are in a position where we need to be to win the battle? The answer is no.” Departing US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate…
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