Our green credentials

We, the staff at Humanitarian Forum, believe that humanitarianism and offering aid doesn’t have to impact the environment.

We try to do good without affecting the environment and understand that, for example, cutting trees to provide shelter and firewood can help a suffering community in the short term, however it might impact the same community negatively in the long term, by threatening the natural balance of the forest’s habitat, declining the number of wild animals.

We aim to recycle and reuse paper and general waste, keep printing to a minimum, use low-energy flat screen monitors and keep correspondence via email rather than paper.

When we travel, we tend to use trains, car share and other greener alternatives. Sometimes, due to the nature of our work, we need to fly to far away destinations. On these occasions, we always try to offset our carbon print.

We are always looking for more ways to improve our green credentials as individuals and we’re open to ideas.