Greening Disaster Response: New Solutions to Decarbonize Humanitarian Action
The nonprofit sector faces a paradox: cash-strapped NGOs promote sustainability and wellbeing, but most run on fossil fuels that are expensive, worsen the climate crisis and generate air pollution, which harms human health. Yet, most NGOs lack the capacity for a potentially complex assessment of energy needs and planning renewable alternatives, particularly in rapidly changing emergency and post-emergency settings such as disasters and refugee camps. This event will explore these challenges and the ways emerging technologies and new programs can help green the world’s humanitarian response and development operations.
Designed for forward-thinking leaders from nonprofit organizations, government, funders, corporate operations and philanthropy, and anyone with an interest in this issue, this dynamic session will feature innovators from Madrid’s Polytechnic University, Global Platform for Action – Sustainable Energy for Displaced People, Action Against Hunger and acciona.org Foundation, among others. Attendees will come away with actionable new insights and tools to mitigate impacts on climate and health while advancing development and mobilizing more effective disaster response.