📅 23 – 25 June 2025
Online
Climate action begins with understanding the impact, and humanitarian organizations are no exception. In a sector increasingly committed to climate neutrality and sustainability, accurately measuring the carbon footprint is essential.
The Humanitarian Carbon Calculator is a useful tool to allow humanitarian agencies to calculate and thereby systematically reduce their carbon emissions.
This course will enable you to confidently use the calculator to track the greenhouse gas emissions from the organization. This can be a starting point for transformation in the organisations, leading towards climate neutrality. The training is a combination of interactive lectures, group work, practical activities, and self-directed ‘homework‘ that will help you develop the skills needed to calculate carbon emissions in the organisation. Using real-world examples and projects and examples, the course will explore the steps needed to understand and reduce carbon emissions within the operational realities of humanitarian settings.
Participants will learn:
- To identify the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from a typical humanitarian project
- To understand what Scope 1-3 Emissions are and why they are important to track
- To use the Humanitarian Carbon Calculator
- To set achievable sustainability goals and climate-neutrality targets in a realistic manner
