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Advancing Climate Justice through South–South–North Cooperation: From Shared Vulnerabilities to Shared Solutions (In-person & Online)

Thursday, June 25, 2026: 09:00 - 10:30 BST | 10:00 - 11:30 CEST
This session at the London Climate Action Week proposes a structured dialogue platform where: - Global South actors articulate lived experiences, systemic challenges, and locally tested alternative solutions. - Global North actors respond with enabling pathways — including finance instruments, policy frameworks, innovation models, and collective action mechanisms — to support equitable climate transitions. ​The session aims to transform climate dialogue from parallel narratives into a coordinated cooperation framework.
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Leading by Example: How the humanitarian sector is advancing climate action and reducing its footprint (In-person & Online)

Thursday, June 25, 2026: 11:00 - 13:30 BST | 12:00 - 14:30 CEST
This session at the London Climate Action Week, organised jointly between Climate Action Accelerator and the Disaster Emergency Committee, will aim to: Share overall insights on the progresses made by the humanitarian community to transform its practices, demonstrating a strong willingness to contribute to global decarbonisation/ environmental Share the experience of Climate Action Accelerator in supporting organisations implementing climate and environmental solutions that are both strengthening their humanitarian action and contributing to global action for a climate resilient, low carbon and sustainable future. Share the experience and practical examples of DEC member charities and Charter Signatories who have developed decarbonisation/ environmental roadmaps or measures to reduce the footprint of their operations and programmes. Engage with key London based humanitarian actors (INGO, think tanks, donors) on the transformation of their practices and policies towards low carbon models. Beyond a commitment to “doing its part”, highlight how a greener and decarbonised humanitarian response is one that is more efficient, resilient, qualitative and localised.
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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
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 London Climate Action Week will showcase scalable examples of locally-led, community financing models 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) and Climate Alliance Pakistan (CAP), and hosted by the London School of Economic (LSE) Humanitarian Research Group.
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A humanitarian exploration of climate security and environmental peacebuilding at EnPax

Friday, June 19, 2026: 11:00-12:30 EST
This in-person roundtable is co-organized by the Charter Secretariat and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre at the 4th Annual Environmental Peacebuilding Conference in Ottawa, Canada. With a roundtable of Charter Signatories and participants supporting communities in humanitarian settings, the session will explore the role of humanitarian organizations in climate security, discuss possible challenges of engaging with climate security and environmental peacebuilding from a humanitarian perspective, and how to jointly navigate these, and identify opportunities for collaboration between humanitarians and the environmental peacebuilding community.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.