Climate Charter

Network Event

The Plastik project: how to optimise the life cycle of medical plastic packaging

Thursday, May 28, 2026: 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

In this webinar, speakers will present the findings of the project which allows to treat more children whilst reducing the number of Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) and medication dispensing sachets distributed, and an initiative currently being implemented in Somalia to reduce plastic waste.

Network Event

Virtual Roundtable on Lessons from Earthquake and Flood-Related Long-Term Recovery to Extreme Heat Action Planning

Wednesday, May 27, 2026: 14:00 - 15:00 India Standard Time | 10:30 - 11:30 CEST

The purpose of this roundtable is to collectively reflect on what has worked, what has not worked, and why in long-term disaster recovery, especially from earthquake and flood experiences. Drawing on longitudinal research and field practice, the session will identify lessons that can inform more effective extreme heat action planning. It will explore how recovery processes, housing resilience, local institutions, community participation, health protection, livelihood restoration, and long-term risk reduction can help shape practical and inclusive action for extreme heat.

Network Event

A decade of Impact: Business Driving Cirsis Resilience, Connecting Business Initiative (CBI) Private Sector Resilience Forum

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Ten years ago, CBI was created to bring together the private sector and the UN to foster more resilient communities. On 21 May, CBI will gather virtually to celebrate what they have built — and shape what comes next. Join global leaders across seven sessions exploring the future of business resilience.

Network Event

Road to the First International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals | Tracking Progress

Tuesday, May 19, 2026: 14:00 - 15:30 CET

The Global Framework on Chemicals, adopted in September 2023 at the Fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5), is organizing its First International Conference from 16 to 20 November 2026 at the Geneva International Conference Center. This information session will provide an update on progress in developing indicators under the measurability framework, highlighting key streams of work and recent advancements and facilitating an exchange on how measurability can support implementation. It will bring together multisectoral and multistakeholder perspectives on how these indicators can be used to track progress and drive impact. This includes consideration of how risks and outcomes are reflected across value chains, including in communities, workplaces, and public health systems.

Network Event

Reviewing the UNFCCC Operating Entities & Adaptation Fund

Wednesday, May 13, 2026: 14:30 CEST

This 90 minute session will review the status of the GCF, GEF, FRLD, and Adaptation Fund this year, identifying key issues, risks, and opportunities for civil society and Indigenous Peoples' continued engagement and strategizing, in alignment with broader climate finance advocacy.

Network Event

Supporting Resilience and Facilitating Safe and Regular Migration Pathways in a Changing Climate, Location: UN Secretariat Building, Conference Room B, New York

Friday, May 8, 2026: 13:15 - 14:30 EDT

At this official International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) side event, high-level speakers will assess the implementation of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM), with a specific focus on Objectives 2 and 5. The panel will showcase effective practices for regular migration pathways in disaster and climate change contexts and present the updated CLIMB database, an online repository of policy and legal instruments addressing human mobility in the context of climate change.

Network Event

Greening CVA: Advancing Carbon Accounting and Life Cycle Approaches in Humanitarian Action

Tuesday, May 5, 2026: 09:00 CEST

The webinar will explore emission reduction levers linked to CVA, while maintaining a strong focus on meeting needs, preserving dignity, and respecting the preferences of affected populations. It will also highlight ongoing efforts to further refine methodologie

Network Event

De-risking the transition to agroecology in humanitarian contexts

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

This event marks the launch of a new learning report that explores how agroecological food systems transitions can be initiated in anticipation of, during, and in recovery from humanitarian crises. The report examines the available evidence and presents concrete, field-tested models for easing and de-risking these transitions in fragile contexts.

Charter Event

Early warning, early and anticipatory action in humanitarian settings: Reducing impacts of climate and environmental risk and saving lives and livelihoods

Tuesday, April 28, 2026: 15:00 - 16:30 CEST

This webinar, co-convened by the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations, the Risk-Informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) and the Anticipation Hub provided a platform for Charter Signatories and the broader humanitarian sector to explore opportunities and challenges related to implementing and financing early warning, early action and anticipatory action in humanitarian contexts, including in Fragile and Conflict Settings. The outcomes of this session will inform discussions at relevant global and policy platforms in 2026.

Network Event

UNDRR Consultation on Synergizing DRR and Climate Change Adaptation Course

Monday, April 27, 2026: 14:00-15:30 CEST

UNDRR will be hosting a hybrid stakeholder engagement workshop to introduce Module 2 of the course, which will be launched at the June Bonn Climate Conference 2026

Network Event

‘Early Warning and Early Action in Least Developed Countries in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations in Africa’

Thursday, April 16, 2026: 15:00-16:00 EAT / 14:00-15:00 CET

Building on a workshop held in December 2025, this webinar will disseminate the findings to date, advance the discussion on practical solutions, and support follow-up actions by partners and stakeholders. It will: ● highlight key challenges and lessons learned in implementing early warning systems in conflict and post-conflict settings in African LDCs ● discuss practical and scalable solutions ● identify ways to advance priority actions, as well as financing pathways to expand and strengthen MHEWSs in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Network Event

REPAIR Lecture on Climate Reparations

Wednesday, April 15, 2026: 11:00 -12:30 CEST

The REPAIR lectures are an interdisciplinary lecture series on contemporary reparations demands and policies around the globe. They are given by leading reparations experts and investigate how reparations claims and policies come about, how they play out from a political, economic and moral perspective, and what they may teach us about politics and economics today.

Network Event

Celebrating community stories: How Loss & Damage funding creates a ripple effect for resilience

Thursday, March 26, 2026: 14:00 CET

Through stories, creative contributions, and reflections from partners, the session will offer insight into how NELD funding works in practice and the kinds of community-led initiatives it can enable.

Network Event

Climate Action Accelerator – Acceleration Day 2026

Wednesday, March 25, 2026: 9:00-17:30 CET

Network Event

Live Online Training on Environmental Sustainability in Planning and Procurement – Africa and Middle East

Tuesday, March 24, 2026: 09:00–11:00 CET

A 2-hours online regional training designed to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors to integrate environmental sustainability considerations into planning and procurement processes, with a focus on practical tools and best practices. Deadline to apply: 3rd March 2026

Network Event

Water, conflict and governance in fragile contexts: Insights from Yemen and Iraq

Tuesday, March 24, 2026: 15:00–16:00 CET

This online event, hosted by the Berghof Foundation on 24 March 2026, brings together experts from Yemen and Iraq to examine how water scarcity, weak governance, and conflict interact in fragile contexts. Speakers will compare field research from both countries to draw insights on environmental peacebuilding and the role of water as a political and social — not merely technical — issue.

Network Event

Drought and climate mobility in Africa: Evidence, challenges and adaptation strategies

Friday, March 20, 2026: 09:00 -10:30 EST | 17:00 - 18:30 EAT

On the occasion of World Water Day, this global webinar will spotlight how drought is shaping climate mobility across Africa, combining evidence and data with a discussion of key challenges communities face and their resulting adaptation strategies, while drawing insights relevant to policy and practice worldwide.

Charter Event

The Climate Podcast – Episode 1: From commitments to action – frontline realities

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Charter Signatory Community World Service Asia (CWSA) hosted their very Climate podcast. Episode 1 was an insightful conversation with Shumaila Murtaza, MEAL Manager and PSEA Focal Point at Foundation for Rural Development (FRD) Pakistan (also a Charter Signatory), and Nishanie Jayamaha, Co‑coordinator of the Secretariat for the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations. Together, they explored how the humanitarian sector is responding to the climate challenge, unpacked the Climate Charter’s role in turning commitments into action - from policy discussions to frontline action - and how climate action is taking shape in Pakistan. Tune in to discover how aid organisations are building resilience and driving change in this climate‑critical decade.

Network Event

PARCEL 2.0 Website Launch – English session

Wednesday, March 18, 2026: 10:00 CET

We are also pleased to announce the launch of the new PARCEL 2.0 website, featuring a fully updated set of resources aligned with the Universal Logistics Standards. The platform includes refreshed e-learning, the improved Logistics Self Assessment Tool (LogSAT), upgraded training materials, and a PARCEL trainer pool; all resources co created and piloted with local and national humanitarian organisations to reinforce practical, locally led humanitarian logistics.

Charter Event

Financing and Scaling Long-Term Resilience at Community Level: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Missing

Wednesday, March 11, 2026: 14:00-15:30 CEST

Amid ongoing funding crises and humanitarian reform processes, finding sustainable ways to finance long-term resilience at the community level is increasingly urgent. This is further exacerbated by climate breakdown and the prevalence of multi-hazard events, which will continue to shape how the sector supports community resilience and reduces humanitarian needs. This session at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week 2026 brought together humanitarian and development practitioners, as well as donors, to examine what has been tested in community-level resilience finance.

Network Event

EHAN Annual Meeting

Tuesday, March 10, 2026: 9:00-17:30 CET

This event will be an opportunity for the EHAN network to exchange on policies, projects, tools etc.. with regards to the integration of environmental and climate issues in humanitarian action.

Charter Event

Climate Crisis: Shared Humanitarian Risk and Locally Led Adaptation

Wednesday, March 4, 2026: 10:00 - 11:30 CET

This session, convened by LM International in partnership with the Climate and Environment Charter Secretariat will explore why locally led climate adaptation is essential for effective humanitarian preparedness, response, and long-term resilience. Find out more information to register.

Charter Event

Climate-Smart and Accountable: Can we be both?

Tuesday, March 3, 2026: 10:00 - 11:00 CET | 09:00 - 10:00 UTC

This session will explore practical ways to advance Commitments to both the Climate and Environment Charter and the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), with a focus on locally-led action, accountability to affected people, building resilience and collective solutions. During this session you will hear practical examples from organisations.

Network Event

Humanitarian Networks Partnership Week

Monday, March 2, 2026 - Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) 2026 will be held for two weeks on 2-12 March 2026. Bringing the ambition of humanitarian reset, the event will be held in hybrid format to ensure a wider broad of networks.

Network Event

Measuring emissions in the humanitarian sector: what’s new for the Humanitarian Carbon Calculator?

Thursday, February 26, 2026: 12:30 - 13:30 CEST

This webinar is designed to give existing and potential users of the HCC a clear overview of the tool’s planned evolutions and which enhanced technical support the Accelerator is bringing. A short overview of the history of the HCC tool will be followed by an explanation of the changes and improvements users can expect with the Accelerator’s involvement in 2026. The session will also cover updates on sectoral activities and present the project plan outlook for the coming year, before opening the floor for questions, suggestions and concluding with key takeaways and next steps. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how the HCC tool is evolving and what these changes mean for their work.

Network Event

Intersection of Security, Climate Change, and Human Mobility Across Key Sectors in the Karamoja Sub-Region of Uganda

Wednesday, February 25, 2026: 11:00 - 12:30 Uganda / 09:00 - 10:00 CET

In partnership with the Ministry of Water and Environment of Uganda, SLYCAN Trust is developing a case study on the intersection of security, climate change, and human mobility across key sectors in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda. Human mobility in the context of climate change is an important cross-cutting thematic area that extends across multiple sectors and is linked to security issues. It can serve as a case study to better understand how governments adapt to local needs and engage in adaptation planning across different sectors.

Network Event

Live Online Training on Environmental Sustainability in Planning and Procurement (Asia)

Tuesday, February 24, 2026: 14:00–16:00 (UTC+6)

Deadline to apply: 03 March 2026. A 2-hours online regional training designed to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors to integrate environmental sustainability considerations into planning and procurement processes, with a focus on practical tools and best practices.

Network Event

Protection of People with Disabilities in Climate-related Planned Relocations in the Philippines

Thursday, February 19, 2026: 4m CET / 11:00 EST

A webinar hosted by Human Rights Watch on their new research on the rights of people with disabilities during climate displacement and planned relocation in the Philippines

Network Event

After COP30: Securing Peace in a Warming World

Wednesday, February 4, 2026: 15:00 CET / 09:00 EST

Despite growing evidence, the climate–peace–security nexus once again struggled to find space in the formal UNFCCC negotiations at COP30. The webinar will explore: • Why peace & security struggled to gain traction • How the agenda played out across green and blue zones • The political and institutional barriers we must confront • Lessons and openings for embedding climate–peace–security in future COPs • How CSOs can help turn local realities into policy commitments and action

Network Event

Turning Loss and Damage Into Action: Financing Climate Mobility via the Loss and Damage Fund

Tuesday, January 13, 2026: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EST)

Join Carnegie’s Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics program for a panel discussion that will bring together climate, mobility, and finance experts, as well as national governments, to discuss the implications of climate mobility fundin

Network Event

Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface to Address the Triple Planetary Crisis (In person)

Wednesday, December 17, 2025: 09:00 - 14:15 CET

On the occasion of the inaugural session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemical Waster and Pollution (ISP-CWP), scheduled to take place in Geneva in February 2026, the Geneva Environment Network will host a Science-Policy Day. The event will take place in December 2025, after the launch of the seventh edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-7) at the Seventh United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7).

Network Event

Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025: Hope in a Changing Climate: Honoring the Dignity of Displaced People (In-person only)

Tuesday, December 16, 2025: 13:30 - 15:00 CET

A video screening followed by a panel discussion will shed light on the difficult decisions faced by communities with a high risk of being displaced by climate impacts: whether, when, and by what means to relocate in response to the growing impacts of climate change that make their living conditions increasingly untenable. The panel will explore the challenges experienced by people being displaced and will highlight their needs, action that can be taken to build resilience, as well as the responsibilities of States and the international community to honor their dignity and protect their rights.

Network Event

Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week Asia Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand

Monday, December 8, 2025 - Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Co-hosted by ICVA, ADRRN, Community World Service Asia (CWSA), and OCHA, the RHPW 2025 will bring together a diverse community of humanitarian actors, from civil society, local responders, UN agencies, and academia, to donors and private sector leaders. Together, we will explore the future of humanitarian action in the face of intensifying climate challenges, shrinking resources, and shifting power dynamics across the region.

Network Event

Employment in the Circular Economy: Leveraging Circularity to Create Decent Work (In-person & Online)

Thursday, December 4, 2025: 14:00 - 15:30 CET

Leading experts joining the panel of the event will present the results from the Global Circular Employment Baseline Report, with a particular focus on decent jobs, bolstering sustainable enterprises, and improving conditions of work. Presentations will provide an overview of data and evidence from the new report, and invite perspectives from policymakers, employers, workers, startups, civil society and international organizations. The event will highlight the need for a stronger evidence base to support the transition toward a circular economy.

Network Event

13th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - Thursday, December 4, 2025

Network Event

Launch event for FMR 76 – Climate change: choices for displaced people

Wednesday, November 26, 2025: 15:00 CEST / 9:00 EST

A opportunity to hear from authors who featured in the latest issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR) on this important and timely topic. The contributions to this issue of FMR emphasize that responses to climate displacement must be proactive, rights-based, and human-centered, moving beyond reactive measures. Authors from five continents share from their unique perspectives to bring you a rich body of articles which we hope will inform and inspire, bringing fresh thinking and provoking debate.

Charter Event

Humanitarian-Led Climate Action in Fragile, Conflict-Affected Settings

Wednesday, November 26, 2025: 2:00 - 3:30pm CET

This webinar aims to create a dedicated space for knowledge-sharing and capacity building on climate and environmental action fragile and conflict affected settings (FCAS) – a common operating context for many Charter Signatories – through: A) Introducing and raising awareness among Charter signatories on platforms and frameworks for engaging at the intersection of climate, conflict, and peace, including through the environmental peacebuilding community and the climate security space, B) Showcasing tools and resources for humanitarian and peacebuilding organizations to advance climate and environmental programming in FCAS, and C) Creating space for sharing insights, challenges, and learning priorities of the humanitarian sector on climate and environmental programs in FCAS

Network Event

Learning from Successes and Failures in Humanitarian Energy

Tuesday, November 25, 2025: 15:00–16:00 CET

Join the GPA and Innovation Norway for this webinar launching the recent report: Course Corrections: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency in Humanitarian Energy. Drawing on research, interviews, and case studies, the report identifies 25 common reasons hindering humanitarian energy projects — from technological gaps to governance barriers — and offers a new model for learning, reflection, and collaboration across the sector.

Network Event

WREC Coalition Greenhouse Gas Emission Global Information Session: Automated Carbon Accounting

Wednesday, November 19, 2025: 14:00–15:30 PM CET

Join the WREC Coalition for this global info session where we’ll dive into the future of carbon accounting in the humanitarian sector. You’ll get exclusive insights into WFP’s automated data aggregation and modelling tool, ECODASH, and have the chance to ask your questions directly to those who’ve made it happen.

Network Event

Weathering the Heat: Strengthening Summer Preparedness Together

Tuesday, November 11, 2025: 10:00 - 11:30 CET

The Extreme Heat Series has been held during April and May 2025 as an online peer-sharing event showcasing experiences to increase community and National Society readiness and preparedness for extreme heat and other summer weather and climate-related hazards. This peer exchange session organized by IFRC Europe and Central Asia, will reflect on the overall impact of summer 2025 in Europe and Central Asia and will do a stock take of experiences from the 2025 summer period, sharing insights into preparedness and response activities as well as what we have learnt to take forward into future planning and preparations.

Charter Event

Engaging at COP30: What the humanitarian sector can expect in Belém?

Thursday, November 6, 2025: 15:00 - 16:30 CET

This webinar co-organized by FAO and the Charter Secretariat, will raise awareness among the Charter Signatories and the humanitarian sector on the various Thematic Days, Initiatives, Solutions and Processes that are taking place at COP30. It will also focus on why is it important, our collective roles and strengths, including unpacking the challenges and opportunities to engage and advocate as humanitarian actors. It will also sensitize Charter Signatories to the Secretariat’s services to support action relating to the Charter and COP 30.

Network Event

People In Need Webinar: Greening Aid in Practice

Wednesday, November 5, 2025: 10:00–11:30 CET

The event will feature PIN colleagues from around the world as well as Aline Hubert (Groupe URD) who conducted independent review of PIN’s greening approach. The webinar will offer useful insights for donors, NGO staff, and anyone working on greening humanitarian and development work.

Network Event

Policy Webinar on Integrating Displaced Populations into National Energy Systems

Monday, November 3, 2025: 11:00 CET

Ahead of COP30 in Belem, this webinar intends to inform the policymakers on the urgent needs of refugees and other displaced people to have access to clean energy. At the webinar, a policy brief will be launched that analysed the policy landscape of Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and sought to find inclusive policy approaches that would enable sustainable energy transition for refugees and host communities.

Charter Event

Digital Frontlines: Tackling Water Risks with Smart Tools and AI in Fragile Settings

Thursday, October 30, 2025: 13:00 - 14:00 CET

This interactive session co-convened by IWMI and the Climate and Environment Charter, brings together researchers, humanitarian stakeholders, donors, and local voices to explore how applied climate and water science - spanning digital twins, anticipatory action, and community-driven analytics - can make humanitarian response more timely, impactful, and fit for purpose. The discussion will identify key evidence gaps, highlight scalable innovations, and lay the groundwork for stronger humanitarian–data partnerships that use water and climate intelligence as pathways for resilience and recovery. The Charter Secretariat will share the Guidance on Climate Risk and Impact Data during the webinar.

Network Event

The Green Shift: Towards Climate-Smart Humanitarian and Development Organizations” Webinar Launch Event (Asia/Pacific)

Wednesday, October 29, 2025: Asia-Pacific-Friendly: 16:00 PST/GMT+8 | 10:00 CET/GMT+2 | 17:30 ACST/GMT+10:30 | 13:30 IST/GMT+5:30 | 08:00 GMT0

The Green Shift Series aims to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian and development organizations to ensure climate and environmental responsibility. Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a crucial role in addressing climate change, advancing sustainable development, and building a more resilient future. By embracing climate and environmental responsibility, CSOs not only fulfill their mission but also seize an opportunity to increase their impact, sustainability, and relevance in a changing world. By attending the launch event, you’ll learn more about this course series and how it can help you, your peers and partners across the globe.

Network Event

The Green Shift: Towards Climate-Smart Humanitarian and Development Organizations” Webinar Launch Event (Americas-Friendly)

Wednesday, October 29, 2025: 17:00 GMT+2 | 11:00 EDT/GMT-4 | 08:00 PDT/GMT-7 | 10:00 CDT/GMT-5 | 15:00 GMT0

The Green Shift Series aims to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian and development organizations to ensure climate and environmental responsibility. Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a crucial role in addressing climate change, advancing sustainable development, and building a more resilient future. By embracing climate and environmental responsibility, CSOs not only fulfill their mission but also seize an opportunity to increase their impact, sustainability, and relevance in a changing world. By attending the launch event, you’ll learn more about this course series and how it can help you, your peers and partners across the globe.

Network Event

Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2025

Thursday, October 23, 2025: (in-person and live-streamed)

As the world experiences increasing instability – driven by more frequent conflicts, the growing impacts of climate change, resource pressures, and shifting geopolitical dynamics – collaboration and knowledge sharing among all sectors are more vital than ever. In these turbulent times, the conference will focus on finding practical solutions and pragmatic opportunities for coordinated action on climate issues and conflict reduction.

Network Event

Unlocking Policy coherence and Integrated Planning for Synergistic Action for Climate, Biodiversity, and Land

Thursday, October 23, 2025: 12:00–13:00 (UTC)

This session will examine how countries can align strategies and institutions so that NDCs, NBSAPs, NAPs and LDN targets reinforce each other — turning siloed plans into coordinated, implementable pathways that mobilize finance, strengthen accountability, and deliver tangible results on the ground. The session is part of a series of webinars that UNEP is convening on the barriers and levers for synergistic action, supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN).

Charter Event

Alternative Financing for Climate and Environmental Action in Humanitarian Contexts

Wednesday, October 15, 2025: 15:00 - 16:30 CET

This webinar co-organised by ECHO and the Charter Secretariat, will explore opportunities on alternative funding for climate and environmental action in humanitarian contexts, bringing in examples from Charter Signatories and partners, noting the funding landscape and discussions around the humanitarian reset which will prioritize life saving needs. This webinar is as a follow-up from the workshop held In May 2025 at the European Humanitarian Forum in Brussels on “Economics of Environmental and Climate Action in the Face of Humanitarian Impacts of Climate Change” co-organised by DG ECHO and the Climate and Environment Charter.

Network Event

How early action through social protection builds climate resilience: the economic case

Tuesday, October 14, 2025: 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

The event by IIED will launch a landmark economic assessment covering eight countries and 24 social protection programmes. The analysis quantifies the costs and return on investment (ROI) of anticipatory action and resilience building through social protection, compared with reactive humanitarian response. It will explore how evidence can support vulnerable countries seek finance from the FRLD and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and how anticipatory social protection can build long term resilience.

Network Event

Geneva Peace Week – ECCP Events

Monday, October 13, 2025 - Friday, October 17, 2025

Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar through which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics related to peace across contexts and disciplines. Various events related to climate and environmental peacebuilding are on this year's agenda

Network Event

Protecting the environment: collection of RUTF sachets

Thursday, October 9, 2025: 10:30 GMT | 12:30 CET

In this webinar, The Climate Action Accelerator will present the PLASTIK project, co-developed with ALIMA and partner NGOs Alerte Santé, KEOOGO and SOS Médecins, which has organised the collection of used RUTF sachets used to treat child malnutrition in Chad and Burkina Faso, preventing 3 tonnes of waste from being released into the environment

Network Event

Webinar Series: Sharing experiences of our local partners in the Sahel: Roadmaps and flagship projects

Thursday, October 9, 2025 - Thursday, October 30, 2025: 5 Webinars

In 2023, the Climate Action Accelerator launched its first collective cycle with five national NGOs in the Sahel, supporting them to design environmental roadmaps and implement projects such as waste management, solarisation, and agroecology to strengthen resilience and low-carbon pathways. During this series of webinars with NGOs from the first cycle, we will share the lessons learned from the development of the roadmaps and the first projects launched.

Network Event

World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - Friday, October 10, 2025

As part of the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025, this will be the first ever in-person global Indigenous Peoples’ Summit of its kind. From 8 to 10 October, more than 100 Indigenous leaders from across the world will gather in Abu Dhabi, alongside IUCN, philanthropic allies, private sector actors, multilateral and bilateral donors, and the wider conservation community.

Network Event

Humanitarian Pathways to Resilience – Locally Led Climate Adaptation and Conflict Prevention in Fragile Settings

Thursday, October 2, 2025: 12:00pm CET | 3:30pm IST | 10:00am GMT

On October 2, IWMI will host a hashtag#FLEX webinar exploring how water can serve as a lens to examine how humanitarian interventions support locally led, gender-responsive climate adaptation in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Drawing on field experiences from Africa, Asia and Middle East, the webinar will highlight practical approaches for shifting power to communities, amplifying the voices of women and marginalized groups, and linking local knowledge to global humanitarian and climate frameworks.

Network Event

New York Climate Week (Hybrid)

Sunday, September 21, 2025 - Sunday, September 28, 2025

NY Climate Week bings together a crucial mix of existing and new leaders from the world of business, tech, politics, academia, and civil society that have the means, the scale and the ideas to take bold action. Set up along 10 themes, there are 900 events and engagement opportunities, including online

Network Event

Sharing experiences of our local partners in the Sahel: Roadmaps and flagship projects

Thursday, September 18, 2025: 10:30 GMT

This webinar explores how five national NGOs in the Sahel co-developed individual roadmaps for sustainable, resilient, and low-carbon development. Participants will learn about the methodology, roadmap content, and key lessons from this first collective cycle.

Charter Event

Unlocking the Power of Nature-based Solutions and Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Humanitarian Action

Monday, September 8, 2025: 1:00-2:30pm UTC / 2:00-3:30pm CEST

This webinar, co-convened by the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations, ECOWEB, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network, and Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and Peace and IUCN will bring together Charter Signatories and partners to explore how NbS and ILK can be effectively integrated in humanitarian programmes. It will share good practices, lessons from the field, and resources/tools for programme design.

Network Event

Nature-Based Cooling Solutions for Cities

Monday, September 8, 2025: 4:00pm-5:00pm IST

In this roundtable, we will explore how NbS can help address extreme heat and build resilience. The session also marks the launch of the latest issue of Southasiadisasters.net, co-edited by Dr. Prajna Paramita Panda and Mihir R. Bhatt, featuring innovations and lessons from across South Asia and beyond. Convened by IUCN and AIDMI

Network Event

Empowering Aid NGOs for Climate Transformation: Introducing the Accelerator Programme for Organisations

Thursday, September 4, 2025: 15:00 - 16:00 CEST

The Climate Action Accelerator will present its Accelerator Programme for Organisations — a two-year initiative helping aid NGOs cut carbon emissions in line with science-based targets. Supporting Commitment 2 of the Climate and Environment Charter, the programme offers expert mentoring, peer learning, and practical tools tailored to the sector to turn climate commitments into measurable action. Find out more at https://academy.climateactionaccelerator.org/

Network Event

The road to Belém: Elevating adaptation finance

Thursday, September 4, 2025: 15:00-16:00 CEST

As COP30 approaches, this event will provide an informal space to bring together some key voices in this debate – including negotiators, NGOs and thought leaders – to discuss the role of the Baku to Belém Roadmap, the Baku Adaptation Roadmap and other critical processes in delivering adaptation finance, and identify what is required to make progress until Belém, and beyond. This will include: - How to increase adaptation finance through a new commitment – akin to the doubling target that was agreed at COP26 in Glasgow. - How to ensure that the Baku to Belém Roadmap provides an effective and realistic pathway to meeting adaptation finance needs, including for LDCs and SIDS, where grant and highly concessional finance is often required. This requires a careful exploration of the role, limitations and opportunities for different kinds of public and private finance.

Network Event

World Water Week 2025, Stockholm (Hybrid)

Sunday, August 24, 2025 - Thursday, August 28, 2025

Under the theme ‘Water for Climate Action’, World Water Week 2025 will focus on addressing the linked emergencies of climate change, environment degradation and biodiversity loss. It will emphasize both mitigation and adaptation, alongside the broader goal of enhancing resilience.

Network Event

Youth on the Move: Capacity Building Session (Session 1): Understanding International Migration Frameworks – The GCM & GFMD

Wednesday, July 30, 2025: 10:00 CEST

This session, we’ll explore two key global frameworks that shape international migration governance: the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) and the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). We’ll break down what they are, how they work, and why they matter—especially for youth. You’ll also hear about inspiring ways young people have engaged with these spaces so far, and get practical tips on how you can get involved, influence policy, and make your voice heard. To ensure accessibility, we’re pleased to offer live French interpretation during both sessions.

Network Event

Youth on the Move: Capacity Building Session (Session 2): Understanding International Migration Frameworks – The GCM & GFMD

Wednesday, July 30, 2025: 16:00 CEST

In this session, we’ll explore two key global frameworks that shape international migration governance: the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) and the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). We’ll break down what they are, how they work, and why they matter—especially for youth. You’ll also hear about inspiring ways young people have engaged with these spaces so far, and get practical tips on how you can get involved, influence policy, and make your voice heard. To ensure accessibility, we’re pleased to offer live French interpretation during both sessions.

Network Event

A Verdict for the Planet: Legal and Political Reflections on the ICJ Climate Ruling

Thursday, July 24, 2025: 17:30 - 19:00 CEST

The online and in-person High-Level Rapid Reaction Panel will take place in response to the long-awaited Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on climate change. It will offer accessible insights into the Advisory Opinion’s key findings, explore its implications for international law and climate justice, and equip diplomats, civil society, and the media with rights-based framing and analysis. For those who would like to attend in-person, in Hague, please register here: https://bit.ly/Verdict4ThePlanet

Network Event

Extreme Heat as a Global and Local Humanitarian Crisis: Virtual Roundtable

Friday, July 18, 2025: 12:30 - 13:30 CEST | 16:00 - 17:00 IST

This roundtable brings together experts, practitioners, and local voices to discuss how we can better prepare for and respond to extreme heat. Together, we will explore early warning systems, risk-informed planning, and equitable solutions that place the most vulnerable at the centre of climate resilience. AIDMI with Start Network will also feature the launch of a special issue of Southasiadisasters.net focused on “Heat as a Humanitarian Crisis: What Local Organisations Are Doing,” highlighting cutting-edge insights, field experiences, and policy recommendations from across the region for system-wide use.

Network Event

ICJAO – People’s Case for Climate Justice (East Call)

Thursday, July 17, 2025: 08:00 CEST | 18:00 Fiji time

On Wednesday, 23 July at 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver its much-anticipated authoritative judicial ruling on States’ obligations in relation to climate change, live from the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). This moment is more than a legal milestone — it could become a global turning point for climate justice and human rights. Driven by Pacific youth and small island nations, and supported by an unprecedented coalition of civil society, Indigenous Peoples and States, the World’s Court process has already made history. Now, this opinion can set a new global benchmark for accountability, inspiring stronger climate action and shaping future negotiations, policies and litigation worldwide. Ahead of this important moment, a coalition of organizations will be hosting a Big Push - Big Tent Mobilization Session. Join us to find out what is happening on the day and how you can be involved.

Network Event

ICJAO – People’s Case for Climate Justice (West call)

Thursday, July 17, 2025: 15:00 CEST | 09:00 EST

On Wednesday, 23 July at 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver its much-anticipated authoritative judicial ruling on States’ obligations in relation to climate change, live from the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). This moment is more than a legal milestone — it could become a global turning point for climate justice and human rights. Driven by Pacific youth and small island nations, and supported by an unprecedented coalition of civil society, Indigenous Peoples and States, the World’s Court process has already made history. Now, this opinion can set a new global benchmark for accountability, inspiring stronger climate action and shaping future negotiations, policies and litigation worldwide. Ahead of this important moment, a coalition of organizations will be hosting a Big Push - Big Tent Mobilization Session. Join us to find out what is happening on the day and how you can be involved.

Network Event

Climate, Nature, and Gender Symposium

Thursday, July 10, 2025 - Thursday, June 12, 2025

This 3-day virtual symposium, organized by IUCN’s NAbSA and PODONG teams aims to spotlight bold, transformative, and grounded work integrating gender, human rights, and Indigenous Peoples' knowledge into nature and climate action. It will be a space to share learnings, inspire action, and foster cross-project connections and solidarity.

Network Event

Climate Action in Gilgit-Baltistan: Opportunities for a Resilient Future

Thursday, July 3, 2025: 14:00 - 17:30 Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent | 11:00 - 14:30 CEST

This learning event organised by Community World Services Asia (CWSA) together with partners, hopes to raise awareness among civil society, INGOs, government line departments ,researchers and students, on the specific climate change challenges faced in the Gilgit-Baltistan region and aims to discuss and identify innovative approaches and potential opportunities for climate change adaptation and mitigation in the region.

Network Event

GHG Emissions Global Information Session: Financing Solarisation

Wednesday, July 2, 2025: 15:00-16:30 CET

Network Event

Report: Fostering South-South Partnerships to Accelerate the Climate Justice

Friday, June 27, 2025: 11:30 - 13:00 CEST / 10:30 - 12:00 GMT

​South-South Cooperation plays a pivotal role in the broader context of climate action by fostering collaboration among developing nations in the Global South. Given their shared vulnerabilities to climate change, these countries benefit from exchanging knowledge, expertise, and resources. By working together, they can accelerate the implementation of sustainable development initiatives, renewable energy projects, and climate adaptation strategies. This collaborative approach not only strengthens individual nations but also contributes to the overall global effort to address the challenges of climate change. Find the report of the LCAW 2025 event.

Charter Event

Greening Humanitarian Assistance – Donor Priorities and Practical Guidance

Thursday, June 26, 2025: 15:00-17:00 CET

This webinar was co-organised by the Donor Greening Working Group Facilitation Team and the Charter Secretariat, Donors shared how they plan to support partners in implementing the new Donor Greening Priority Actions, and how they intend to integrate these into their own humanitarian operations where relevant. A deep dive of the Common Donor Priority Actions, with the Climate Charter Secretariat presenting the new Greening Guidance Pages and key tools that will support implementation. We heard from humanitarian organisations on the actions they have already taken and the progress made in line with these Priority Actions and their wider Charter commitments.

Network Event

Reducing the impact of procurement: Results from lifecycle analyses of key items of the humanitarian sector (Part II)

Thursday, June 26, 2025: 12:30-13:00 CET

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Climate Action Accelerator and two departments of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have joined forces to conduct lifecycle analyses of some of the most relevant items in the humanitarian sector to identify levers to reduce the environmental and health impact of items as well as to improve their emission factors. This session will provide participants with the results of 6 of the 13 analysed items.

Network Event

11th EbA Knowledge Day (hybrid)

Saturday, June 21, 2025: 9:30AM - 7:00PM CET

This annual event. co-hosted by UNEP and IUCN, will spotlight successful strategies, innovative financing mechanisms, and robust monitoring frameworks that demonstrate the efficacy of EbA, with the ultimate goal of influencing policy and investment decisions.

Network Event

Climate-Related Human Mobility Across Different Levels of Adaptation Governance

Thursday, June 5, 2025: 15:30 CEST

This event will launch the report "Climate-Related Human Mobility Across Different Levels of Adaptation Governance," presented by SLYCAN Trust and the NAP Global Network. The webinar will share key findings from global and country-level research (Costa Rica, Senegal, and Sri Lanka) on integrating human mobility into climate adaptation planning. Featuring expert insights, case studies, and discussions on best practices for localized and multi-level adaptation governance.

Network Event

Reducing the impact of procurement: Results from lifecycle analyses of key items of the humanitarian sector (Part I)

Thursday, June 5, 2025: 10:30-12:30 CET

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Climate Action Accelerator and two departments of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have joined forces to conduct lifecycle analyses of some of the most relevant items in the humanitarian sector in order to identify levers to reduce the environmental and health impact of items as well as to improve their emission factors. This session will provide participants with the results of 7 of the 13 analysed items, namely: High-thermal blankets, Jerrycans, Plastic buckets, Solar Lamps, Soap bars, Plastic floor mats, and Mattresses.

Network Event

Displacement in Disasters – Participation and Innovation for Resilience

Wednesday, June 4, 2025: 12:15-13:15 CET

On the sidelines of the Global Platform for DRR, this joint event organized by the Platform on Disaster Displacement, the International Organization for Migration, CARITAS Internationalis, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Pacific WIN (the Pacific Women’s Indigenous Network) and Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency will highlight multistakeholder collaboration and collective action for an inclusive, protection- and human rights based approach to disaster displacement,

Network Event

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Monday, June 2, 2025 - Friday, June 6, 2025

The UN General Assembly recognizes the Global Platform as the global multi-stakeholder forum to review progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the Platform, governments, the UN system and all stakeholders get together to share knowledge and discuss the latest developments and trends in reducing disaster risk, identify gaps and make recommendations to further accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework. The eighth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be organized and convened by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and hosted by the Government of Switzerland.

Network Event

Virtual roundtable: Urgency of Urban Heat Adaptation

Thursday, May 29, 2025: 16:00 - 17:00 Indian Time / 12:30 - 13:30 CEST

UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), National Institute of Public Health, Mali, and All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) are jointly organising a roundtable which will highlight the need for integrated approaches—combining data, design, and policy—to build equitable urban resilience. Urgent, inclusive, and collaborative responses are vital to safeguard lives, protect livelihoods, and ensure sustainable development under intensifying heat conditions in cities.

Network Event

2025 Outlook: Food Insecurity and Humanitarian Priorities in the Sahel and West Africa (Online and in-person Geneva)

Tuesday, May 27, 2025: 15:00 - 16:00 CEST

52.7 million people are projected to face Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3+) food insecurity during the 2025 lean season in West Africa and the Sahel, including 2.96 million in Emergency (IPC Phase 4). Refugee and internally displaced populations remain among the most vulnerable. Conflict, displacement, and economic shocks continue to fuel widespread hunger across key hotspots like the Central Sahel and Lake Chad Basin. This briefing will deliver the latest regional food security assessments and discuss urgent priorities for emergency response and long-term resilience planning. This briefing will be conducted in both English and French. Please note that no translation services will be provided during the session.

Network Event

Empowering aid organisations for Climate Transformation: Introducing the Climate Transformation Academy

Tuesday, May 27, 2025: 15:00-16:00 CET

Join the Climate Action Accelerator for a session to discover the Climate Transformation Academy — a new programme designed to help aid organisations significantly reduce their carbon emissions in line with science-based targets, enhance their environmental sustainability and strengthen their resilience. 

Network Event

Supporting Local Partner NGOs in Greening Their Operations

Thursday, May 22, 2025: 10:00 - 11:30 CEST

Would you like to help your local partners operate in a more eco-friendly and less expensive manner? This webinar organised by People in Need will offer step-by-step guidance on how you can support your local partners in making their transport, offices, and procurement more eco-friendly, even with very little funding. To make such a task easier for you, the webinar will introduce a hands-on package of resources you can use, including guidance for facilitators, thematic guides, workshop slides, (self)assessment forms, templates, feedback forms, and much more.

Network Event

Video and Webinar Series: The basics of forecasting for anticipatory action

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - Friday, June 13, 2025: 7:30-9:30 GMT

In an increasingly unpredictable climate, the ability to interpret and apply forecasting information is critical for effective disaster preparedness. Many practitioners, particularly those new to anticipatory action, struggle to navigate the complexities of weather and climate forecasts. This webinar series is designed to bridge that knowledge gap by providing a foundational understanding of forecasting principles, impact-based forecasting approaches, and key considerations for decision-making. By equipping beginners with practical insights and real-world examples, this series aims to enhance their ability to use forecasts effectively, ask the right questions, and take timely anticipatory action to mitigate risks and save lives. The series will start from 16 May and run through 18 June with two different formats: > Forecasting Fridays: 16 May to 13 June, weekly release of one 7–10-minute forecasting video > Webinars Wednesdays: 21 May to 18 June 2025, 1:30 – 3:00PM GMT+02:00

Charter Event

Participatory Workshop at EHF: Economics of Environmental and Climate Action in the Face of the Humanitarian Impacts of Climate Change

Monday, May 19, 2025: 16:45 – 18:00 CEST

Through this participatory workshop, participants unpacked: - Progress made so far by both signatories to the Donor Declaration and the Charter and what is still needed to achieve commitments, - The economics of investing in prevention, preparedness and reducing organizations’ environment footprint, as well as new sources of funding for these actions - Environmental and resilience-building actions in humanitarian contexts.

Network Event

Integrating climate mobility and rural livelihood links into national adaptation and mitigation planning: Guiding framework and toolkit launch

Thursday, May 15, 2025: 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

The virtual event will launch the FAO/UNU-EHS Guiding Framework and Toolkit and create a platform for discussion about the need of integrating human mobility and rural livelihood linkages into climate policies. You can find the Guiding framework here: https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/756cffc9-2203-4876-b765-af583c7a5504

Network Event

From Knowledge to Action: Climate and Health Partnerships in West Africa

Tuesday, May 13, 2025: 14:00 GMT | 16:00 CEST

Climate change poses a growing threat to health systems, particularly in vulnerable regions such as West Africa. Strengthening partnerships between climate and health actors is critical to building resilient, low-carbon development pathways that protect both human and planetary health. This event will share work of organizations in the region, and will highlight innovative partnerships, and inspire greater collaboration toward sustainable, climate-resilient health systems.

Network Event

19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA19), Brazil

Monday, May 12, 2025 - Friday, May 16, 2025

Network Event

Addressing Extreme Heat in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from Regional Platforms

Friday, April 25, 2025: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM IST

International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), Asia Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), and All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) are jointly organising a roundtable on “Key Action Areas for Addressing Extreme Heat in the Asia-Pacific." The roundtable aims to create a collaborative platform for stakeholders to address the growing challenge of extreme urban heat, with a focus on Bangladesh and the broader Asia-Pacific region.

Network Event

Community-Based Approaches to Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure

Friday, April 11, 2025: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM (IST)

Building on Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)’s success in promoting resilient urban infrastructure in the recent years. The session will explore innovative and participatory strategies that empower local communities in building sustainable and climate-adaptive urban environments. Experts and practitioners will discuss real-world case studies, policy frameworks, and practical tools that integrate local knowledge, social equity, and nature-based solutions into urban planning.

The Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition Common Approach: Comparing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Cash Plus interventions in preventing Acute Malnutrition in Somalia

Thursday, April 10, 2025: 14:00 - 15:30 CET / 16:00 - 17:30 EAT

This webinar organized by the Global Nutrition Cluster will feature insights from the Research to Action in Humanitarian Setting (R2HC) study implemented by Save The Children, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and funded by the ELHRA, which rigorously tested the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Cash Plus interventions on the wasting status of children under five and pregnant and lactating women in Somalia. The study provides valuable evidence for optimizing cash and nutrition programs in challenging humanitarian contexts.

Network Event

CGIAR Science Week

Monday, April 7, 2025 - Saturday, April 12, 2025: Various Sessions, Hybrid

Drawing on CGIAR science and partnerships from around the world, the inaugural CGIAR Science Week will engage the community of global leaders in research, policy, and development working for a food, nutrition, and climate secure future in active dialogue during plenary sessions focused on harnessing and scaling science and innovation.

Network Event

Climate Chance Europe Africa 2025 Summit

Monday, March 31, 2025 - Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The two-day event will feature a wide-ranging programme including 30 workshops. Four main themes will be at the heart of the discussions: 1) Deepening our knowledge to enhance the effectiveness of adaptation to climate change. 2) Transforming the economy and public action to provide sustainable responses to climate challenges. 3) Strengthening and developing local adaptation solutions 4) Cooperation between Europe and Africa for effective adaptation to climate change.

Network Event

HNPW event: Mainstreaming environment and disaster risk reduction into humanitarian response: concepts and practice

Friday, March 28, 2025: 09:00 - 10:30 CET, CICG Room 1 and Online (Teams)

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, in collaboration with the Global Shelter Cluster, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, are delighted to have you join to discuss why and how integrating disaster risk and environment in humanitarian action contributes to preparedness and response efforts.

Network Event

Integrating green finance in humanitarian action for energy access and shelter and settlements interventions at HNPW

Friday, March 28, 2025: 09:00-10:30 CET

The event will allow IOM to share the progress made in two Innovation Norway funded initiatives focusing on green finance for shelter and settlements and energy access. The event will bring together humanitarian actors, private sector partners and other relevant stakeholders to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities for integrating displacement settings into carbon markets and other sustainable financing mechanisms globally.

Network Event

Environment in Humanitarian Action Network (EHAN) Annual Meeting at HNPW

Thursday, March 27, 2025: 11:00 - 17:30 CET

The UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU) will host this hybrid annual meeting at HNPW, which will focus on environmental sustainability topics that are relevant to humanitarians. EHAN members will get a chance to present their projects and case studies of successful implementation. Charter Signatories are invited to be part of the event either as a participant or a presenter on one of themes: 1) Environment and Conflict Nexus, 2) Localisation and Accountability in EHA, and 3) New Tools and Resources on EHA. Presentation proposals (a brief abstract, duration of your presentation, and the names and affiliations of the presenters) should be submitted by 30 January 2025 to JEU (ochaunep@un.org copying Tina El Khoury tina.elkhoury@un.org and Yukiko Yoshida yoshiday@un.org).

Network Event

IWMI Biweekly Webinar Series: Advancing Early Warning for All

Thursday, March 27, 2025

This biweekly webinar series, “Advancing early warning for all”, runs from March to December 2025, aims to raise awareness, promote knowledge-sharing, and provide actionable solutions for strengthening early warning systems worldwide.

Network Event

HNPW Event: Humanitarians as Climate and Environment Champions

Wednesday, March 26, 2025: 16:00-17:30 CET

Transforming humanitarian assistance to be locally led, nature-positive and climate-smart, requires upgrading humanitarian standards and enlightening organizational and operational norms and behaviours, to value biodiversity and nature as the foundation for achieving and protecting humanitarian and development outcomes. Panellists will facilitate a critical discussion challenging participants to reimagine humanitarian assistance and their respective roles, to enable this transformation.

Network Event

How Earth Observation Is Improving Rapid Humanitarian Response and Environmental Assessment in Post-Conflict Setting at HNPW

Tuesday, March 25, 2025: 9:00 - 10:00 CET

This session, organized by NASA Lifelines, and PAX with support from the JEU will explore the use of satellite imagery in humanitarian operations and environmental assessments. It will highlight case studies from conflict zones like Ukraine and discuss key topics such as rapid assessment of humanitarian contexts, remediation efforts, and future technological opportunities.

Network Event

HNPW Event – Reducing the carbon and environmental footprint of procurement

Tuesday, March 25, 2025: 11-12:30 CET

This session will provide participants with go-to resources on lifecycle analyses and offer a preview of findings from the joint ICRC/Climate Action Accelerator/EPFL project on LCAs of key items of the sector. It will also feature insights from UNITAID on LCAs of key health products and how results are used to shape markets. Additionally, learnings from a WREC study, conducted in collaboration with KLU and CHORD, on measuring emissions in humanitarian supply chains, as well as insights from the WORM project on LCAs of bio-based materials will be shared.

Charter Event

HNPW Event – Loss and Damage Financing: Humanitarian Perspectives

Tuesday, March 25, 2025: 14:00 - 15:30 CET

Humanitarians are already working in areas affected by loss and damage from climate change - alongside, and with, affected communities. As the loss and damage financing architecture continues to be operationalized, ensuring that mechanisms such as the Santiago Network and the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) reach the most vulnerable people and communities is a key humanitarian ask and concern. This event, coordinated by members of the IASC Climate Crisis Sub-Group, will provide an opportunity for a practical conversation on the emerging loss and damage funding architecture, including on the complementarity and coherence of emerging funding arrangements.

Network Event

Closing the Early Warning Gap: Extreme Heat

Sunday, March 23, 2025: 3:00-4:00pm IST

Bringing together experts from across the region, this panel will observe to understand extreme heat, existing early warning systems for heatwaves, the tremendous work that has been done and the mitigation strategies to reduce impact on the vulnerable population.

Charter Event

On target? Accelerating Humanitarian Climate and Environment Programming 

Tuesday, March 18, 2025: 13:00 - 14:00 UTC / 14:00 - 15:00 CET

The Climate and Environment Charter Secretariat and the ADAPT Initiative are pleased to invite you to an online event during the Humanitarian Networks Partnership Week (HNPW) to launch a case study report examining how organizations are incorporating climate and environmental considerations into their humanitarian work, particularly through the setting of clear, actionable targets. The online event will explore themes and learnings emerging from the case studies. 

Charter Event

HNPW Event: Voices from Frontline Communities – Leading Climate Action in Agriculture and Food

Tuesday, March 18, 2025: 13:00–14:00 CET (Zoom)

This session, convened by FAO and the Charter Secretariat at HNPW<=, will highlight the experiences of local women leaders actively engaged in climate action within agrifood systems, including in fragile settings. Participants will gain insights into how international actors can better support locally led adaptation and resilience efforts, fostering more inclusive and robust agrifood systems.

Network Event

Using cash transfers to respond to Loss and Damage – CALP and Give Directly

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - Wednesday, March 19, 2025: Americas-Friendly Time: March 18th @ 2pm – 3pm UK on March 18 | Asia-Friendly Time: March 19th @ 8am – 9am UK on March 19

Join CALP and Give Directly for a webinar where we will explore how cash transfers can play an integral role in responding to Loss and Damage (L&D) resulting from the climate crisis.

Network Event

Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks

Monday, March 17, 2025 - Friday, March 28, 2025

The HNPW is a platform for inter-network collaboration in Areas of Common Concern (AOCC) with the aim to improve humanitarian preparedness and response. The Climate Crisis has been on the HNPW agenda since 2020, reflecting the increasing recognition across the humanitarian community of the need to scale up our action and adapt our responses in light of the climate crisis and the humanitarian needs it is generating. Other AOCCs relevant to the Charter include: Nexus Environment, Anticipatory Action, Localization and Coordination, as well as Inclusion. The HNPW 2025 will be held in a hybrid format. Registration is now open.

Charter Event

Mainstreaming and Identifying Funding Sources for Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Humanitarian programmes

Thursday, March 13, 2025: 9:00 - 10:30 EST / 13:00 - 14:30 UTC / 14:00 - 15:30 CET

This webinar will raise awareness on mainstreaming DRR into humanitarian programming and introduce participants to tools and the different types of financing mechanisms available for implementing Commitment 1 of the Charter, and explore practical pathways to mobilize resources. It will also open the discussion to Charter signatories on the challenges they face in accessing funding and assess the level of support required to enhance resource mobilization for climate interventions in the humanitarian sector.

Network Event

Growing green initiatives – How to plan for a sustainable NGO?

Thursday, March 6, 2025: 10:00-11:30 AM CET

You can find the recording to the webinar. LocalLink Hub's webinar will provide practical, hands on tips on how to move forward a more sustainable operating model. How is the “greening” process in the humanitarian and development sector translating and taking place within national and local organisations? How can international organisations learn from this transformation and support/amplify it? What concrete capacity-building initiatives exist to date? How can humanitarian and development actors effectively measure and integrate environmental considerations into their operations to drive sustainable impact and advance environmental accountability? The link between localisation and climate action: what examples of good practice can local actors put forward to take effective action? What are their needs to embark on the transformation of the sector towards a more sustainable model?

Network Event

Launch of the Disaster Displacement Addendum to the City Resilience Scorecard

Tuesday, February 25, 2025: Various times

The Disaster Displacement Addendum is a tool that helps local governments to self-asses their capacity to manage disaster displacement and integrate disaster displacement considerations into disaster risk reduction policy and planning efforts. The launch webinar will introduce the tool and provide an opportunity to discuss its practical application, including by sharing insights from its pilot roll-out phase. The event is organized jointly by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Network Event

COP29 Outcomes Webinar Series: Adaptation and Resilience in Latin America

Tuesday, February 25, 2025: 09:00h - 10:30h EST/UTC-5

This post-COP29 webinar will provide regional stakeholders with an inclusive platform to unpack key decisions' implications, discuss regional priorities, and strategize implementation pathways for climate adaptation and resilience. Este webinario proporcionará a las partes interesadas regionales una plataforma inclusiva para desentrañar las implicaciones de las decisiones clave, debatir las prioridades regionales y elaborar estrategias de implementación para la adaptación y la resiliencia climáticas.

Network Event

Inclusive Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction – Afghanistan

Wednesday, February 5, 2025: 15:00 – 17:30 GMT/ 19:30-22:00 AFT

RedR UK is offering a free, high-quality online training course aiming to equip participants with a foundational understanding of how gender and disability intersect with climate change and disaster risk, enabling participants to recognise the importance of advocating for and implementing inclusive approaches in CCADRR efforts.This training is designed for humanitarian responders living and working in Afghanistan. The training is a 2.5 hour, fully online course delivered on Zoom.

Network Event

Roundtable on Climate Extremes: Pathways for Preparedness and Anticipatory Action

Friday, January 24, 2025: 4:00-5:00pm IST

The All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), are jointly organising the Virtual Roundtable on ‘Climate Extremes: Pathways for Preparedness and Anticipatory Action’. This roundtable explores the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, the challenges of forecasting co-located hazards, and the heightened vulnerability of marginalised communities.

Network Event

A Quarter-Century Celebration – GEN@25 High level ceremony, Geneva, Swizterland

Monday, January 20, 2025: 09:00 - 13:30 CET

The celebration of the 25 years of the Geneva Environment Network will culminate in a High-Level Celebration organized around two key moments that will take place at the International Environment House: the GEN@25 Environment Forum (9:00 – 10:45 CET), followed by the High-Level Closing Ceremony (10:45 – 11:45 CET), and a networking reception (11:45 – 13:30 CET). They will serve as an occasion to celebrate the numerous institutions that contribute to making Geneva a global hub for environmental governance.

Network Event

Our common ambition: making a difference for children’s health in climate action

Tuesday, January 14, 2025: 09:00 - 10:30 CEST

The climate crisis has emerged as a critical child rights issue, with critical impact on children’s health. At this interactive roundtable, we will: - Discuss the key challenges for children’s health in the face of the climate crisis, with a specific focus on climate-resilient and low-carbon primary healthcare systems, financing and participation. - Share practical solutions and policy changes that can protect children’s health in the face of the climate crisis, highlighting relevant current policy processes. - Get insights on how policymakers can protect children’s right to health amidst the climate crisis, and drive forward effective multilateral and national action.

Network Event

Implementing and Reporting on the Sendai Gender Action Plan: Webinar for Non-Government Stakeholders, UNDRR

Thursday, December 19, 2024: Session 1: 10am Bangkok, 2pm Suva | Session 2: 9am Geneva, 11am Nairobi

The goal of the Gender Action Plan to Support Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai GAP), launched in March 2024 is to accelerate achievement of the Sendai Framework by substantially increasing gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and substantially decreasing gender-related disaster risk by 2030. The session aims for non-government stakeholder attendees to have an enhanced understanding of the Sendai GAP and to be able to identify opportunities within their own work to implement the Sendai GAP and its Recommended Actions and increase numbers of non-governments actors reporting on the Sendai GAP using the Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments online platform (https://sendaicommitments.undrr.org/).

Charter Event

WORKSHOP: Mainstreaming Climate and Environmental Action in Humanitarian Contexts

Friday, December 13, 2024: Bangkok, Thailand

Humanitarian, development, and advocacy organizations working in Asia-Pacific face unique challenges in addressing climate and environmental issues due to the region's unique geography and climate context. Taking place on the sidelines of the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week, this workshop aims to provide an interactive opportunity for signatories of the Climate and Environment Charter based in Asia-Pacific to unpack how they are systematically taking into consideration the commitments of the Charter into design, planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluation and learning cycles of humanitarian programming

Network Event

Climate Justice Hearings at the International Court of Justice: Unpacking Key Arguments and Drawing Lessons from a Human Rights Perspective

Thursday, December 12, 2024: 18:30 - 20:30 CET

In-person and Online - This event will unpack key arguments and draw lesson from the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations in respect of climate change, and: - increase public awareness of the Advisory Opinion process and its relevance from a human rights perspective; - center the understanding of the Advisory Opinion on human rights and States’ obligations beyond those contained in the Paris Agreement by offering the most immediate debriefing of the hearings with a focus on human rights; - plant seeds for future follow-up: prepare the ground for an uptake of the Advisory Opinion among human rights institution.

Network Event

WREC Greenhouse Gas Emissions Info Session

Thursday, December 12, 2024: 2:30pm UTC

The WREC Coalition invites you to its global information session ‘decarbonisation action in the field’ This session will take the form of a ‘live helpdesk’, so come prepared with questions you have always wanted to ask on how get decarbonisation going in the field. 

Charter Event

Post-COP29 in Baku: successes, challenges and next steps

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - Thursday, December 5, 2024: December 3: 14:30 UTC / 15:30 CET & December 5: 08:00 UTC / 09:00 CET

The DEC, Climate Charter and the CALP CVA, Climate and Environment CoP invite you to join our joint webinar, where we’ll explore what have been the main successes and challenges of the COP 29 for humanitarians.  We’ll also be discussing how to better prepare for and engage with COP30 in Brazil in 2025.

Network Event

ICJ Oral Hearings on Climate Justice – Diplomatic Screening and Commentary (in-person and live screening)

Monday, December 2, 2024: 09:00 CET

On 2 December, the International Court of Justice will start holding its first-ever public hearings on States’ obligations with regard to climate change. On 29 March 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations in respect of climate change. The resolution was the result of the leadership of Vanuatu and 18 other States. The resolution requests the ICJ to clarify States’ obligations with regard to climate change, with specific attention to vulnerable States and affected peoples and individuals, including future generations. The full text is available in all official UN languages. The event will also be livestreamed on Youtube.

Network Event

Human Mobility and Climate Change: Experiences and Challenges in the Americas.

Thursday, November 21, 2024: 11:00 EST

This webinar will highlight the urgent need to strengthen legal protection mechanisms for the most vulnerable populations and will generate inter-regional dialogue on strategies to develop stronger frameworks for protecting climate vulnerable people. The conversation will bring together experts from Central America, Colombia, and the United States to analyze existing legal responses to climate displacement in the Americas. (English and Spanish)

Network Event

From Jeddah to Geneva | Multilateralism Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance

Tuesday, November 19, 2024: 10:00 - 11:30 CET

Antimicrobial resistance is a critical and growing threat to human, and animal health, food security, environment, and development. AMR has been directly linked to 1.27 million global deaths and has contributed to 4.95 million deaths. This event, organized as part of the World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) from 18 to 24 November, will serve as a strategic gathering to advance commitments and build on the 4th Ministerial Conference to promote the integrated One Heath approach and evaluate the next steps and commitments that result from the meeting in Jeddah.

Network Event

Road to Busan | Strengthening the Health Aspects of the Future Plastics Treaty

Thursday, November 14, 2024: 14:00-15:30 CET

Recalling the World Health Assembly Resolution 76.17 (WHA 76.17) which calls on Member States to “support WHO in scaling up work on plastics and health to enable better information on the potential human health impacts associated with plastic, including plastic pollution, and with the aim of strengthening the public health aspects, including under the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution” and requests the WHO to “actively contribute, in accordance with its mandate, to the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee”, this session will discuss the state of play ahead of the fifth and final INC session and health aspects of the treaty under discussion.

Network Event

Climate-Related Human Mobility in the localization and local implementation of NAPs

Thursday, November 7, 2024: 14:00-15:30 CET (6.30-8.00 pm IST)

In partnership with the NAP Global Network, SLYCAN Trust is excited to share preliminary findings from our ongoing research, which includes case studies from Costa Rica, Senegal, and Sri Lanka. Topics include: the nexus between human mobility. NAP localization, and local adaptation planning; practical applications of these insights for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and other actors; and, engaging in valuable discussions with experts and practitioners worldwide.

Network Event

Unpacking Baku COP29 & sharing messages in the CALP Network

Wednesday, November 6, 2024: 8:00 UTC

Recording available. The primary aim of this webinar is to help demystify the COP for humanitarian stakeholders, and to better understand what it might mean for them. It will unpack the main initiatives on the agenda at this year’s COP, which will focus on climate finance and the New Collective Quantified Goals (NCQG).

Network Event

Launch Event of the MERA (Multi-sectoral Environmental Risks Analysis) matrix

Wednesday, October 30, 2024: 11:00-11:45 CET

The REH Environmental Assessments Working Group has developed the MERA (Multi-sectoral Environmental Risks Analysis) matrix to help humanitarian and development project developers and technical advisers to become aware of the environmental risks that the projects they are developing may entail, and to rapidly formulate recommendations to mitigate these risks. The matrix provides a non-exhaustive database of mitigation measures for each environmental risk associated with activities in the Food Security & Livelihoods, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene, Shelter and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support sectors. The matrix will be available on the REH website from October 30th in English, French and Spanish.

Network Event

NEAT+ Training Sessions

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - Wednesday, March 5, 2025: (multiple sessions)

Groupe URD is hosting a series of training courses on the NEAT+ (Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool) to assess the environmental risks of your projects. You will learn how to analyse and use the results produced by the NEAT+ tool, and how to develop an action plan for your project based on these results. Sessions will take place every month until March 2025, including 2 in French.

Network Event

Navigating Fragility, Conflict, and Violence to Strengthen Community Resilience – Launch of a New Practitioner Handbook and Call to Action

Friday, October 25, 2024: 12:30-2:00pm CET

The event will be the launch event of a new Practitioner Handbook “Navigating Fragility, Conflict and Violence to strengthen Community Resilience” that aims to help navigate the challenges and uncertainties we encounter in FCV settings, assisting DRR practitioners in avoiding common shortcomings, while increasing chances of effectively reduced disaster risk

Charter Event

Environment-smart anticipatory action: gaps, practices and opportunities at the 12th Global Platform

Wednesday, October 23, 2024: 14:30-15:30 (Hybrid)

At the 12th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action, the Charter will be co-hosting a session with Charter Signatories - CARE, CALP, and ACCORD - on considering the environmental impacts of anticipatory action. This session will raise awareness of the importance of environment-smart anticipatory action and explore how programmes can better incorporate and minimize environmental impacts, drawing on experiences from emergency response programmes. Cash and voucher assistance, one of the most widely adopted instruments, will be discussed as one of the solutions for environment-smart anticipatory action. Register for online participation in the Dialogue Platform for this and other hybrid events.

Network Event

12th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - Thursday, October 24, 2024

The 12th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action will take place from 22 to 24 October 2024 in Berlin and online. This year’s edition focuses on 'Mainstreaming anticipatory action: collaboration in complex contexts’.

Network Event

Girls’ and Young Women’s Leadership in Nature-based Solutions for Climate Action

Thursday, October 17, 2024: 10:30 - 11:45 GMT+8

On October 17, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will host a Girls Takeover in celebration of IDG at its headquarters, in partnership with Plan International Asia-Pacific and Plan International Pilipinas. The event will focus on the theme "Girls' Leadership in Climate Action." A hybrid panel discussion will kick off the event, featuring youth, government representatives, civil society organizations, and private sector stakeholders. Panelists include Prachi Shevgoankar (Cool the Globe, India), Dikatauna Kea (Eda Davara Marine Sanctuary, Papua New Guinea), and Sabrina Escalona (Ecosensya Solutions for Environmental Sustainability, The Philippines).

Network Event

Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APCMDRR) 2024, Manila, The Philippines

Monday, October 14, 2024 - Friday, October 18, 2024

The APMCDRR is the main platform in Asia and the Pacific to monitor, review and enhance cooperation for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 at the regional level.  The conference brings together governments, intergovernmental, international, national and civil society organizations, the private sector, science, academia and stakeholder groups to accelerate progress in reducing disaster risk.

Network Event

Call for Applications COP29 Side Events and Exhibits at the Humanitarian Hub, Blue Zone at COP29: Deadline 11 October

Friday, October 11, 2024

Call for applications for the dedicated Humanitarian Hub which will provide the international humanitarian community an opportunity to showcase our work including how it relates to climate and its impact on humanitarian response - deadline 11 October.

Charter Event

Towards COP29: Peace-Climate-Humanitarian collective action

Thursday, October 3, 2024: 12:00 - 13:30 UTC / 14:00 - 15:30 CET / 08:00 - 09:30 EST

Join the Climate Action Network International (CAN-I), The Environment, Climate, Conflict and Peace (ECCP) community of practice, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Sub-group on Climate and the Advisory Group on Human Mobility as we raise awareness among the Charter Signatories and the humanitarian sector on the various initiatives that are taking place at COP29. It will also focus on our collective strengths and roles, including opportunities in advocating for and bringing solutions to the climate and environmental crisis across the humanitarian, climate/environment and peacebuilding sectors.

Network Event

Accelerating climate action today to better serve populations tomorrow (Climate Action Accelerator)

Wednesday, October 2, 2024: 10:00 - 17:30 CEST (in Geneva and online)

We will draw on our work in international aid and health sectors and share insights on operationalizing climate commitments, partnering for locally led action and the pivotal role of funds programming in amplifying change. We’ll also debate how effective climate transformation not only generates crucial climate outcomes but also reinforces our capacity to deliver in extraordinary times, in a world characterised by increased constraints.

Network Event

Global Webinar: Membership to the Santiago Network

Wednesday, October 2, 2024: Session 1 - 8:00 a.m. (CEST), Session 2 - 4:00 p.m. (CEST)

Learn more about the Santiago network, how to become a member and what membership to the network entails. This webinar is recommended for any organizations, bodies, networks and experts interested in becoming members of the Santiago network.

Network Event

Greening Humanitarian and Development Operations – webinar series

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - Wednesday, October 2, 2024: 09:00 - 12:00 CEST

The webinar series organised by Plan International and Civil Society Now is intended for primarily local organisations that are seeking to reduce the environmental impact of their offices, transport, and purchases. Our speakers, from People in Need’s offices around the world, will introduce the most effective ‘greening’ measures organisations can take as well as useful tips on their implementation. Practical guides and tools will be offered during the webinars to help participants apply what they have learned.

Network Event

Expression of Interest COP29 SHARE Hub side events (ICCAD)

Saturday, September 28, 2024

International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) call for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for hosting side events at the SHARE Hub during COP29 has been extended. The new deadline is 28 September 2024. This extension offers additional time for IGOs, NGOs, research institutions, youth, women, indigenous-led organizations, and other stakeholders to submit proposals that align with the SHARE Hub themes of climate resilience, adaptation, just transition, and loss and damage. The events will be scheduled between 12-21 November 2024 at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Given the limited slots, we encourage you to finalize your submissions as early as possible.

Network Event

Online global meeting: presentation of NEAT+ roadmap

Thursday, September 26, 2024: 15:00 - 16:30 CET

The NEAT+ Steerin Committee will present the roadmap for the improvement and sustainability of NEAT+, and leave room for questions and answers. The meeting will incorporate discussions from the two-day retreat taking place just before, feedback from practitioners and NEAT+ training participants, as well as lessons learned from NRC’s two-year capacity building programme. (Link downloads event invite)

Network Event

The Challenge of Greening the Humanitarian Response (ACF)

Monday, September 23, 2024: Virtual Event at NY Climate Week

The aim of this session is to bring together different actors from the humanitarian and the renewable energies sectors to discuss about the challenge of greening humanitarian responses therefore taking a more active role on contributing to climate change mitigation while deploying humanitarian aid.

Network Event

Climate Week NYC

Sunday, September 22, 2024 - Sunday, September 29, 2024

Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision takers and civil society representatives of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world, gather to drive the transition, speed up progress, and champion change that is already happening.

Network Event

Understanding Landslides and Related Risk Factors for Preparedness

Friday, September 20, 2024: 07:00 - 08:00 CEST | 10:30 - 11:30 India Standard Time

This session on “Understanding Landslides and Associated Risk Factors for Enhanced Preparedness” will explore the causes of landslides, how to manage the risks, and how we can enhance community resilience. Experts will discuss innovative solutions and share valuable insights to help reduce vulnerability and improve preparedness.

Charter Event

Resources and Tools for Humanitarian Organizations to Advance Climate and Environmental Action

Monday, September 9, 2024: 12:00-13:30 UTC / 14:00-15:30 CEST / 8:00-9:30 EST

This webinar will provide Charter Signatories with an overview of existing expertise and support available to humanitarian organizations working on climate and environmental action. The webinar will introduce Signatories to one of the central tools available to the sector, the Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+), presenting the tool itself and sharing lessons learned in implementation from two Charter Signatories.  Lastly, the Charter Secretariat will further share  how it plans to utilize the expertise mapping, as well as improve the accessibility and reduce fragmentation of these resources and tools.

Network Event

The Santiago Network for Loss and Damage: Exploring the role and engagement of organisations, bodies, networks and experts as the members of the network

Tuesday, August 27, 2024: 13:00 - 15:00 CEST

The primary objective of this webinar was to focus on the capacity building of OBNEs and explore their role and engagement as the SNLD advances towards full operationalisation

Network Event

Youth Climate Adaptation Forum on Locally Led Adaptation

Monday, August 12, 2024

Network Event

IASC Briefing: Launch of IASC Climate Crisis Roadmap

Friday, June 28, 2024: 15:30 – 16:45 GVA / 09:30 – 10:45 NY

This briefing will focus on launching the IASC Climate Crisis Roadmap and discussing its implementation at national, regional and global level through the six priority areas for IASC collaborative action. It aims to provide a platform for IASC members and their partners to explore emerging issues related to the climate crisis, share experiences, and identify opportunities for improved coordination and action.

Network Event

CCHN World Summit 2024 ⎮Climate change and conflict: Negotiating for the future

Friday, June 28, 2024

This session addressed the intersection of climate change, conflict, and humanitarian needs, focusing on negotiating for long-term solutions and resilience in vulnerable regions affected by environmental degradation. The panellists stressed that humanitarianism should work for both humans and nature, highlighting climate as a conflict multiplier. They concluded that effective humanitarian negotiations require representing nature and integrating environmental considerations into humanitarian efforts.

Network Event

Launch Event: Towards Halving Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions By 2030 in the Humanitarian Sector (CAA)

Thursday, June 13, 2024: 14:30 to 16:30 (CET)

Climate Action Accelerator has developed a ‘Roadmap for Halving Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Humanitarian Sector by 2030’ as a tool to guide humanitarian actors towards meeting their own climate commitments while addressing both populations needs and organisational risk in a world increasingly under pressure.

Charter Event

Introduction to the Charter Secretariat and Support to Signatories

Thursday, May 30, 2024: 9:00-10:00 EST / 13:00-14:00 UTC / 15:00-16:00 CEST

The webinar introduces the Secretariat team of the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations and its Board. It aims to provide Signatories with a better understanding of the Secretariat functions and how the referral hub will support them in implementing the Charter commitments, including what forms of expertise, guidance, and services can be provided through the Secretariat.