Footprint to Action: Humanitarian Carbon Calculator Training

English

June 2025

Climate action begins with understanding your impact—and humanitarian organizations are no exception. In a sector increasingly committed to climate neutrality and sustainability, accurately measuring your 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 their organization. This can be a starting point for transformation in your 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 their own organisations. Using real-world examples and your own projects and examples the course will explore the steps needed to understand and reduce carbon emissions within the operational realities of humanitarian settings.

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You 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

Target group

Staff of humanitarian NGOs with several years of professional experience with an interest in environment and humanitarian action.

Schedule

15:00 - 18:00

Day 1

Welcome and introductions

Climate change basics and the Paris Agreement

Carbon Accounting and scopes 1,2 and 3

Data for carbon accounting

Homework Assignment – Collecting Emissions Data

Andrea Dekrout

Lecturer

Andrea Dekrout is an environmentalist with 15 years of experience in development and humanitarian settings. She worked as UNHCR’s Environmental Coordinator for 5 years. During that time she provided hands-on field assistance and support to improve the environmental sustainability of UNHCR operations globally. She is currently living and working in Nairobi, Kenya with the United Nations Environment Programme.

Gavin Reynolds

Lecturer

Gavin currently works for the Freshwater Ecosystems Unit at the United Nations Environment Program. His work at UNEP involves developing community-based initiatives such as the Adopt a River for Sustainable Development partnership of UNEP and Rotary. Prior to working at UNEP Gavin was an Environmental, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene advisor for Swedish Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Previously he worked with the Autonomous Bougainville Government in Papua New Guinea and Cheetah Conservation Botswana.  Gavin completed his Master of Science and worked at the University of Waikato in his home country of New Zealand before being employed by New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. Having worked in the Humanitarian, Development and Environment spheres he has developed a keen interest in the intersection of human development and environmental conservation with a focus on communities and community led initiatives.

280,00€

* To cover the fees you can upload an educational voucher of the state of NRW during the registration

23.6.2025 - 25.6.2025

9 hours of training

Online Event

ProviderThis training is organized by the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict.