Climate Change | Mercy Corps

Climate change is worsening an already unprecedented scarcity of resources, including water and arable land in some of the world's most volatile and impoverished regions. Mercy Corps sees climate change as a threat to the communities we serve, but we also view it as an economic opportunity, particularly for youth.

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Mercy Corps is currently developing a comprehensive and practical strategy to ameliorate both the direct threat and secondary effects of climate change.

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Mercy Corps is preparing for climate change impacts across its global operations in more than 32 countries.

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Donate $48: enough to train three displaced women in Congo how to build wood-efficient cookstoves that help preserve forest resources
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Climate change is a growing threat to human society. As it throws natural systems further out of balance, poor nations and communities feel the effect most severely because they lack the resources and support to adapt.

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