The humanitarian sector is facing a perfect storm: surging needs, rising attacks on humanitarian principles, and a tidal wave of politically driven funding cuts. Yet, one crisis continues to outpace all others in speed, scale, and long-term impact: the climate emergency. As humanitarian actors are stretched to their limits, recentering their work on core mandates (e.g.: saving lives), their climate ambition risks slipping off the agenda.

Yet, over the recent years, the humanitarian sector has made strong commitments to transform its practices demonstrating a strong willingness to contribute to global decarbonization efforts. More recently, the Humanitarian Reset is seen as a unique opportunity for a more efficient, cost-effective, sustainable humanitarian sector.

This HNPW session proposes to explore the various co-benefits which a greener and decarbonized humanitarian sector can bring (ex: financial savings, operational resilience, localisation) shedding the light on practical examples of how humanitarian organisations are already implementing ambitious roadmaps to pursue their climate and environmental commitments.