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Learn MoreGet the latest information and guidance on COVID-19 and its humanitarian and environmental impacts
Learn MoreThe Environmental Emergencies Centre (EEC) is a one-stop-shop of information relevant to the preparedness, prevention and response stages of an environmental emergency. EEC strengthens the preparedness capacities of responders and humanitarians, allowing users to build on their own mechanisms and to draw on the resources and services of EEC partners. The Environmental Emergencies Centre is hosted by the UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU).
The impact of Climate Change has already increased the insecurity of vulnerable communities in serval regions across the globe, including exacerbating the loss of livelihoods,...
Learn MoreA rapid environmental screening tool for humanitarian contexts, which allows humanitarian actors to quickly identify issues of environmental concern before designing longer term emergency or...
Learn MoreThe GRRT is a toolkit and training program designed to increase awareness and knowledge of environmentally responsible disaster response approaches.
Learn MoreThe course, available in English, French, Spanish and Russian, provides humanitarian actors with information on how to effectively integrate environmental issues into humanitarian response and...
Learn MoreThe Flash Environmental Assessment Tool (FEAT) is a tool which helps identify existing or potential acute environmental impacts that pose risks for humans, human life-support...
Learn MoreThe Rapid Environmental Assessment Guidelines are a tool which allow for defining and prioritizing potential environmental impacts during disaster situations.
Learn MoreThe UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU), with support from Data Friendly Spaces, Joint Initiative partners, and expert reviewers, released the Urban Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (U-NEAT+) in July 2021. The urban version of the environmental screening tool comes in response to the increasing and complex trend of urban displacement that…
This report analyses the nexus between the protection of civilians and the environment in humanitarian operations. The study focused on examining the type of harms that come out of this nexus, as well as reviewing best guidance and practices existing in the field. Finally, it underlines how the protection sector…
An explosion of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate occured at the port of Beruit. This incident left hundreds dead, thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In the prevailing COVID-19 context many complications emerged and a more sophiscated examination response to this incident was required.
Ariel shot of explosion at Port of Beirut (@BBC News)
Below are two presentations presented by Mr. Muralee Thummarukudy and Margherita Fanchiotti, PhD on the linkage between the environment and COVID-19 and environmental reponse to the explosion.
A growing number of people need humanitarian assistance (UNOCHA, 2020), which is intended to save lives, alleviate suffering and restore human dignity during and after manmade crises and disasters caused by natural hazards (Good Humanitarian Donorship, n.d.). At the same time, solid waste management (SWM) is a rising development challenge…
Motivation On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This global crisis has been a very powerful reminder of the links between environment and emergencies. Disasters, crises and the environment are intrinsically interconnected. Therefore, a key element of emergency response is the rapid identification and mitigation of…
This report presents the results of an environmental scoping mission using the Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+) by the UNEP / OCHA Joint Environment Unit (JEU) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to the Integrated Assistance Centre (Centro de Atención Integral, or CAI) in Maicao, northeastern Colombia.
This guidance accompanies the Environment Marker, and aims at giving specific guidance on mitigation measures for activities in “B”-coded projects (medium environmental impact). It provides...
Learn MoreThere is an inextricable link between the protection of the environment and the protection of civilians across in the armed conflict-affected areas. This publication explains...
Learn MoreThe research paper, "Faecal Sludge Management in Africa: Socio-economic aspects, human and environmental health implications", aims to explore how current trends in faecal sludge management...
Learn MoreCash and voucher Assistance (CVA) has been used widely in humanitarian programs. Like all types of humanitarian operations, CVA can have environmental impacts. This includes...
Learn MoreThe United Nations Environment Programme/Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Joint Environment Unit (JEU), also known as the UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit, is housed within OCHA’s Emergency Services Branch in Geneva. Founded in 1994, it helps Member States prepare for and respond to environmental dimensions of emergencies. The…
Motivation On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This global crisis has been a very powerful reminder of the links between environment and emergencies. Disasters, crises and the environment are intrinsically interconnected. Therefore, a key element of emergency response is the rapid identification and mitigation of…
A Joint Initiative to improve engagement and coordination between environmental and humanitarian actors The Coordination of Assessments for Environment in Humanitarian Action – The Joint Initiative – is a unique, multi-stakeholder project that convenes environmental and humanitarian actors to work together towards minimizing the environmental causes and consequences of…
The Adaptation to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan African Humanitarian situations is an inter-agency initiative which aims to strengthen climate change adaptation in target humanitarian hot spots. The project supports vulnerable communities, internally displaced people, refugees and host communities that face climate-related risks in Burundi, Chad and Sudan. The projects involves…
Humanitarian assistance demands continue to rise in parallel with an increasingly urgent and underfunded global solid waste management crisis. This waste management crisis disproportionately affects countries that commonly receive humanitarian assistance, many of which often lack sufficient infrastructure or management systems to handle the country’s regularly produced solid waste, let…
The Environment and Emergencies Forum (EEF) is a unique global event organized by the UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit (JEU). The Forum brings together stakeholders from around the world to showcase innovations in environmental emergency preparedness and response, and to highlight current efforts on integrating environmental risk in humanitarian action.
Soil pollution affects the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, our health, and the health of all organisms on the planet.🌱💚
Join us in celebrating #WorldSoilDay and take action now to #StopSoilPollution 👇
Learn more: https://t.co/hMEYQXP0zn
@FAO
#DYK? 70% of volunteer work does not involve any organization but happens informally between people in their communities.
Ahead of #IVD2021, let's cheer all people who #VolunteerNow 🙌🎉
Let's volunteer now for our common future!
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#DYK that persons with disabilities are among the most impacted by environmental #emergencies, #disasters and in #humanitarian contexts?
Join us in celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities!📢👫
#IDPD #EveryoneIncluded @UNDESASocial
HUMANITARIAN DISABILITY CHARTER
Charter on inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action. Key principles to make humanitarian action m...
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🚨 Our 🌍 climate has changed - its effects are devastating and potentially irreversible.
We must help the most vulnerable people adapt to the #ClimateEmergency and make sure no one is left behind. 👉 https://t.co/bQ70wIU3wd
#GHO2022 #InvestInHumanity
📢 Launching 2 December!
The Global Humanitarian Overview is the world’s most comprehensive assessment of global humanitarian needs, response and requirements.
📺 Tune in ➡️ https://t.co/Stei1o926d
#InvestInHumanity #GHO2022
#DYK that the world commemorated the first large-scale use of #ChemicalWeapons in 2015, Ieper, Belgium?
On this Day of Remembrance for all Victims of #ChemicalWarfare, let's redouble efforts to achieve a world free from such destructive weapons.
Read more:https://t.co/SY1GYuZ32z
📢 Join us today, 14:15 to 15:00 and 15:00 to 15:45 CET for a session on "The Nexus #Environmental #Assessment Tool (NEAT+) in the context of #foodsecurity, during Global Partners Meeting of the Food Security Cluster. 📱🌱
See agenda and register: https://t.co/lLHBrfXYVX
Are you working or interested in Disaster Risk Management?
This webinar on #Gender, #HumanRights and #Environment in DRM is made for you. It will introduce you to these concepts and launch a guideline to integrate them.
🗓️ 1 December, 12 CET
Register: https://t.co/pGPzj99SXL
Seeing resurgence of COVID-19 cases around the world? What if a disaster happens now in your country?🦠🌪️
Together with @nidmmhaindia, last year we launched the Global Webinar Series on #Environment and #Emergencies in the face of #COVID19.
Missed it?:
Global Webinar Series - EECentre
Motivation On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This global crisis has be...
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Where are we at when it comes to humanitarians' #response to the #ClimateCrisis?
Find it out during this webinar on the launch of the 'Climate Change and Humanitarian Action, 2021' report, by @Prepare_Init.
🗓️ 30 November, 9 CET
Register here: https://t.co/DRzdBZOS76
Do you remember the major explosions in #Beirut port, August 2020?💥
Join us in the upcoming UN & OECD follow-up seminar on lessons learned, experiences and good practices related to #ammonium nitrate and its #risks.
🗓️ When? 14 December
Register now: https://t.co/BIot7Tsq9s
#DidYouKnow that #SouthSudan is experiencing #floods for a 3rd year in a row? ⚠️🌊
We're currently providing #remotesupport on #environmentalconcerns but much more needs to be done. Learn about the situation and how to contribute to collective efforts.
👉https://t.co/7izKySWlyC
It's #WorldToiletDay! 🚽💧
Who cares about toilets? 3.6 billion people do. Because they have nowhere safe to go. Life without a toilet is dirty, dangerous and undignified.
Toilets for all by 2030. #SDG6 #water #sanitation
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Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by nearly 200 countries at #COP26 🎉🌍
Resulting from the common willingness to keep 1.5C alive, it will only survive if joint and immediate action is taken. It's time for #ClimateActionNow!
Read more: https://t.co/vJ4l098k3d
#TogetherForOurPlanet
#COP26 is over!🌎 What happened during this second week?:
✅Commitment to create sustainable agriculture and land use
✅Momentum to mainstream gender into climate action
✅Further steps to green transports and urban infrastructures
... among many more!
LATEST NEWS - UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
Catch up on the latest news and updates from the COP26 press office and sign up to the COP26 newsletter. Press...
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#DidYouKnow that #COP26 is a sustainable event? It is:
✅ Promoting the use of responsible energy sources
✅ Carbon neutral
✅ Offsetting unavoidable emissions
...to leave a positive legacy! 🌎🌱
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Sustainability - UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the SEC – Glasgow 2021
The UK is committed to delivering a sustainable COP26. COP26 will be a carbon-neutral conference, with sustainability ...
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The Environmental Emergencies Centre (EEC) is an online preparedness tool designed to enable an effective response to the environmental dimensions of emergencies.
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