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Disasters and conflicts

We work to minimize the environmental causes and consequences of crises.

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The Challenge

More than two billion people have been affected by disasters and conflicts since 2000.

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A woman from Mangatsiotra village in Madagascar harvests rambo grass, a valuable weaving material that has high resilience to drought
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The X-Press Pearl.
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Oil, acid, plastic: Inside the shipping disaster gripping Sri Lanka

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Circular solution to Mosul’s conflict debris launched

Нефтяные обломки
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Crude impact: cleaning up the ravages of war in Iraq

A woman pushes containers of water in a wheelbarrow
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Rebuilding relationships over natural resources in Darfur

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