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Overview OverviewTake on climate changeIn a recent global IBM survey of more than 3,000 developers, first responders, and social activists, 79% of respondents agree that climate change is something that can be reduced or combated with technology.Answer this Call to Code by innovating with the latest technology to address one of three topics related to climate change:Energy sustainability;Water sustainability; OR Disaster resiliency. Winning solutions are deployed in communities that need the most help.Why focus on climate change?Simply put, climate change has the potential to impact every human, every industry and every living organism on the planet. It sounds extreme because it is. Exhaustive research has confirmed changing weather patterns, rapidly rising sea levels, and extreme weather events proliferating around the world.9.8 Billion | By 2050, the global population will reach 9.8B people exerting further pressure on the earth's resources.3-5 Degrees | By the year 2100, global temperatures could increase 3-5 degrees Celsius (5.4-9.0 degrees Fahrenheit) What is Call for Code?Call for Code asks innovators to create practical, effective, and high-quality applications based on one or more IBM Cloud™ services (for example, web, mobile, data, analytics, AI, IoT, or weather) that can have an immediate and lasting impact on humanitarian issues. Teams of developers, data scientists, designers, business analysts, subject matter experts and more are challenged to build solutions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and climate change. This year the competition will have two tracks. One track is for solutions that help halt and reverse the impact of climate change. The second track is for solutions to mitigate the impact of global pandemics like COVID-19 on communities around the world. Winning solutions are deployed in communities that need the most help. Why is this important?This trend will not change without action. IBM believes that technology can help reverse these tren