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Vincent Williams

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Supply Chains The Hot Spots Project is creating a searchable database for identifying worker exposure to extreme heat risk in wide range of corporate supply chains, along with action items for companies, policymakers, and civil society organizations. The database is a collaborative student research effort among the project partners: the Center for Sustainable Business Practices (in LCB) and the student organization Net Impact. The effort also receives technical support from staff in the Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change practice of WSP, a global consulting firm. The Hot Spots team team has accumulated a handful of reports on a plethora of industries such as rice in Thailand, dairy in California, and cobalt mining in the DRC. These industry reports contain aim to raise awareness about the increasingly important environmental justice issue of extreme heat, and to inform adaptation strategies to improve worker health and wellbeing outcomes internationally. Each report focuses on workers in a particular industry and geography, with information on labor force composition, extreme heat details, and features of the relevant policy environment.

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University of Oregon / 2024

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Vincent Williams