Upcoming Charter Event
Scaling Locally-led Community Financing for Climate and Environmental Action in Humanitarian Contexts at London Climate Action Week (LCAW): In-person & Online
Tuesday, June 23, 2026: 13:30 - 15:00 BST | 14:30 - 16:00 CEST
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Session Description:
Evidence consistently shows that climate-informed action, especially at community and local levels, reduces costs and delivers more dignified outcomes as it builds resilience, anticipates, averts and minimizes loss and damage – rather than focusing on response alone, even in the most fragile and complex settings. This session at the London Climate Action Week (LCAW) will showcase scalable examples of locally-led, community financing models, including through parametric insurance, for climate and environmental action from organizations working in humanitarian, fragile, conflict, and disaster-impacted contexts.
The session is co-organized by the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations, the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), Climate Alliance Pakistan (CAP) and the Climate Action Accelerator, and hosted by the LSE Humanitarian Research Group.
Objectives:
- Share examples of alternative and innovative funding models, including parametric insurance, for climate and environmental action at local/community levels in humanitarian settings, including in conflict and fragile contexts, beyond traditional public donor mechanisms
- Showcase emerging examples and proof-of-concept initiatives
- Explore opportunities to strengthen private sector and philanthropic engagement, catalytic finance, and knowledge sharing
- Create space for exchange and reflection to assess levels of engagement with alternative funding or identify opportunities for scale-up
- Contribute to ongoing reflections of the Charter Secretariat on how to support the scale-up of climate-environment programming at local level through diversified, sustainable funding streams
Speakers:
- Small Businesses, Small Towns, Small Adaptation, Big Resilience Project: Mihir Bhatt, Director, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI)
- Parametric Insurance for Climate Risk in Conflict, Fragile and Humanitarian settings: Caroline Birch, Head of Impact, Humanity Insured
- Climate Resilient Education Systems Trial (CREST): Protecting learning during climate shocks: Emma Gremley, Senior Director of Education, Economic Recovery & Development, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Micro-financing for climate and vulnerable communities in Pakistan: Muhammad Murtaza, Chief Executive Officer, Rural Community Development Programme (RCDP) and Vice Chairman Pakistan Microfinance Network
- Financing for climate and environment programming in emergency humanitarian response in FCAS, Edward Beswick, Accountability and Learning Manager, Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC)
- Stuart Gordon, Professor in Managing Humanitarianism and Programme Director for the International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies MSc, London School of Economic (LSE)
- Moderated by Nishanie Jayamaha, Co-coordinator, Secretariat for the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations
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Background to the LCAW event:
This session will build on events co-organized by the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations on Financing Climate Resilience at Community Level: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Missing with ECHO and UNDP at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week in Geneva, Switzerland in March 2026, the workshop on Economics of Environmental and Climate Action in the Face of Humanitarian Impacts of Climate Change at the European Humanitarian Forum in Brussels in May 2025 and session on Alternative Financing for Climate and Environmental Action in Humanitarian Contexts in October 2025 together with DG ECHO.