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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.
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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.
Prevention, preparedness and response are key pillars of the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents which will celebrate its 20th anniversary of entry into force on 19 April 2020. The Convention was negotiated in response to the 1986 Sandoz chemical spill, which put Switzerland…
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 (UNEP) together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), theUnited Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) have conducted...
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…
Today marks 100 days until #COP26! 🌍
Climate change is one of the main drivers of the #Humanitarian crisis. Therefore the well-being of people and our planet requires #ClimateAction now!
More information: https://t.co/DA4ICiflM6
#TogetherForOurPlanet @COP26
Interested in how to manage packaging waste from humanitarian assistance more sustainably?
Check out the latest issue of the Joint Initiative’s newsletter to find out more! https://t.co/tyIA2KkA70
The @EU_Commission just released a "Compendium of good practices for a greener humanitarian response"! 🌱🌍
English version: https://t.co/xVq4dtFmMV
French version: https://t.co/Swv1JXK6Nk
#greening #humanitarian #operations
🇱🇰 We have recently deployed #oilspill and #chemical experts to #SriLanka, provided by the @eu_echo, to help address the #environmental impacts of #MVXPressPearl disaster.
Curious to learn more about the mission? Here is the full article: https://t.co/XhdJvyambc
Report to come!
Have you ever wondered about the #environmental #impacts of human #displacement? Curious to learn more about these and how to take mitigation actions?🌱⛺️
📢Discover the new online course on "Reducing environmental impacts of displacement in the Pacific": https://t.co/QePSKrpmhl
@UNDRR
In 2017, #drought led to the worst #HumanitarianCrisis since the Second World War, when 20 million people across Africa and the Middle East came to the brink of #starvation. (UN-OCHA)
Join us on 17 June, 15:00 CEST for the launch of the #GAR2021: https://t.co/Ur4YmG3NU8
3.2 billion people are affected by land degradation.
It impacts the food they produce and the water they drink.
We need to heal our ecosystems to heal ourselves!🌍👫 On the occasion of #WorldEnvironmentDay, join #GenerationRestoration: https://t.co/GMCUt7RXey
@UNITAR
The Global Platform for Action (GPA) is hosting a workshop series on #household #electrification in forced #displacement #settings on 14, 16 and 22 June, 14:00-15:30 CEST.⛺️🔌
Register to session:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 1: Field stories - Presenting solutions to improve household electricity access. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Session 1: Field stories - Presenting solutions to improve household e...
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@detoxconflict @Hum_StudiesGVA @GroupeURD @TheHALOTrust @IUCN @mapaction @save_children
#HNPW 2021 is over! The #Environment and #Humanitarian #Action Network organized 10 priority topic sessions on the #ClimateCrisis and more than 1'100 people attended them. Many thanks and hope to see you next year!
Meetings recordings are available here: https://t.co/pTvEIgc98U
Join @UNOCHA & @UNEP on a virtual world tour to explore how #environmental #emergency #response has changed during #COVIDー19! "One Planet, One Humanity: The Links Between Environment and Emergencies" on 5 May at 14:30 UTC+2. Register now: https://t.co/s6XjMeubpr #HNPW
More than 100 humanitarians discussing how to manage packaging waste more responsibly and sustainably at the @logcluster AM.
Sign up here to find out more: https://t.co/PhhD6Ondxo
Joint Initiative for Sustainable Humanitarian Assistance Packaging Waste Management 📦 🌍
#HNPW
@USAIDSavesLives @WFPLogistics @IOM_MECC @ICRC @logcluster
Wondering what to do with packaging waste left behind by humanitarian operations? Do you want to join others to manage it more sustainably?
We are talking to humanitarians during #HNPW and GLC AM about this.
Find out more:
Joint Initiative On Sustainable Humanitarian Assistance Packaging Waste Management - EECentre
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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.
