Scaling Locally-led Community Financing for Climate and Environmental Action

The session is co-organized by the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations, the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), Climate Alliance Pakistan (CAP) and the Climate Action Accelerator, and hosted by the LSE Humanitarian Research Group. The event was part of the London Climate Action Week in June 23 2026 Evidence consistently shows that climate-informed action, especially at community and local levels, reduces costs and delivers more dignified outcomes as it builds resilience, anticipates, averts and minimizes loss and damage – rather than focusing on response alone, even in the most fragile and complex settings. This session showcased scalable examples of locally-led, community financing models, including through parametric insurance, for climate and environmental action from organizations working in humanitarian, fragile, conflict, and disaster-impacted contexts. This session builds on events co-organized by the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations on Financing Climate Resilience at Community Level: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Missing with ECHO and UNDP at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week in Geneva, Switzerland in March 2026, the workshop on Economics of Environmental and Climate Action in the Face of Humanitarian Impacts of Climate Change at the European Humanitarian Forum in Brussels in May 2025 and session on Alternative Financing for Climate and Environmental Action in Humanitarian Contexts in October 2025 together with DG ECHO.