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Climate and Environment Report 2024 and 2025

In 2024 and 2025, DRC worked alongside displacement-affected communities to strengthen climate resilience, restore ecosystems, reduce operational environmental impacts, and amplify the voices of those most affected. This Climate and Environment Report  demonstrates how DRC has translated its Climate and Environment Framework into practice. Climate change is reshaping displacement around the world, but it is also inspiring innovation, resilience, and action.

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Climate and Environment Report 2024 and 2025 02 Sep 2026 PDF 13 MB
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Executive summary

Climate change and environmental degradation are no longer peripheral challenges for humanitarian action—they are increasingly shaping patterns of displacement, vulnerability, and recovery. Across 2024–2025, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) strengthened its commitment to addressing these interconnected crises by implementing its Framework for Climate and Environment through three strategic pillars: climate adaptation in programming, mitigation of DRC’s environmental footprint, and advocacy for displaced people in the context of climate change. This report demonstrates how DRC is translating global commitments into practical action that helps displacement-affected communities adapt, recover, and build resilience.

Across its operations, DRC has embedded climate and environmental considerations into humanitarian response, durable solutions, and long-term recovery efforts. From supporting climate-resilient livelihoods in the Sahel and regenerative agriculture in Uganda to improving water security in Ethiopia and restoring ecosystems in Jordan and South Sudan, DRC has demonstrated that climate adaptation can strengthen food security, reduce disaster risks, improve social cohesion, and create sustainable economic opportunities. Community-led approaches remain central to this work, with displaced people and host communities helping design solutions that reflect local priorities and knowledge.

The report highlights DRC's growing leadership in anticipatory action and disaster preparedness. In East Africa, multi-hazard forecasting and early warning systems are helping communities prepare for droughts, floods, and displacement before crises escalate. In Venezuela, community-driven disaster preparedness initiatives have strengthened local capacity to anticipate and respond to floods, while in North Africa regional partnerships are improving forecasting and emergency readiness across multiple countries. These examples demonstrate how investing in preparedness reduces vulnerability and protects lives and livelihoods.

Alongside adaptation, DRC has significantly advanced efforts to reduce its own carbon and environmental footprint. In 2024, DRC launched its Global Decarbonization Roadmap with a target of reducing operational greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030. Renewable energy investments are already delivering results, with 47 facilities across 14 countries now fully or partially powered by solar energy. Country offices in Nigeria, Chad, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, and elsewhere have reduced diesel consumption, improved energy reliability, lowered operational costs, and strengthened environmental performance. Global assessments on fleet management, warehouses, waste management, and energy systems have further provided the evidence needed to scale sustainable operational practices across the organization.

The report also underscores DRC's role in advancing evidence-based advocacy on climate change and displacement. Through partnerships, research, consortium leadership, and engagement in global policy processes, DRC is helping ensure that displaced people are included in climate discussions and solutions. Publications, assessments, and learning generated across countries such as Syria, Kenya, Yemen, Colombia, Afghanistan, and South Sudan are informing programming, influencing policy, and strengthening understanding of the growing links between climate risks, environmental change, and human mobility. Through collaboration with the Mixed Migration Centre and wider humanitarian networks, DRC continues to elevate the voices and experiences of those most affected.

Taken together, the examples in this report demonstrate that climate action is not separate from humanitarian action—it is essential to it. Whether restoring degraded landscapes, supporting green livelihoods, strengthening preparedness systems, reducing operational emissions, or advocating for climate-displaced populations, DRC is helping build a future where displacement affected populations are better equipped to withstand climate shocks, recover with dignity, and pursue lasting solutions. The report offers clear evidence that locally led, climate-informed humanitarian action can deliver meaningful benefits for people, communities, and the environment alike.