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Accelerating Humanitarian Climate Programming Through the Climate and Environment Charter
Case Study Report, February 2025
The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations sets out a series of seven commitments designed to help humanitarian organisations to systematically respond to the climate and environmental crises. As of February 2025, 462 organisations have signed the Charter.
The first six of these commitments focus on concrete actions and approaches to collaboration, localisation, and evidence-based response efforts that will drive forward climate and environmental work. By signing the Charter, organisations pledge to incorporate these approaches into their work. The seventh commitment calls on signatory organisations to ‘develop targets and measure our progress as we implement our commitments’. Within a year of signing the Charter, signatory organisations are expected to translate the commitments into time-bound targets which are applicable to their organisational work, capacities, and areas of expertise.
The ADAPT Initiative was commissioned by the Secretariat of the Charter to undertake a review, focusing on case studies of six signatory organisations, with the aim of:
- Demonstrating the diversity of options for programmatic and other activities that make a reality of the commitments, and which other organisations may wish to emulate, and;
- Outlining the experiences of signatory organisations in setting and working towards targets and identifying any emerging lessons that other organisations may wish to consider in their own internal change processes.
