CERF’s Climate Action Account (May 2026)

CERF’s Climate Action Account

Climate change is driving more frequent and severe disasters, escalating humanitarian needs worldwide. Vulnerable communities – particularly in Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States and countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence – bear the brunt of droughts, floods, and storms. Yet climate financing rarely reaches those communities.

The CERF Climate Action Account offers donors a high-impact opportunity to support faster, smarter, and more cost-effective humanitarian action. It upholds the life-saving mandate of the CERF (Resolution 60/124) whilst also aligning with the commitment to deliver humanitarian assistance that builds climate resilience (Resolutions 69/240 and 70/1). It channels additional climate-related financing to support climate action in crisis settings that otherwise would not occur. In doing so, the Account represents a step change in how CERF responds to the climate crisis, driving critical actions to:

• Support humanitarian activities that build communities’ adaptive capacity,
• Strengthen and scale anticipatory action,
• Boost climate-smart humanitarian response, and
• Foster innovation and advance best practice.

This fills a critical gap in the climate financing architecture. The CERF Climate Action Account operates efficiently and effectively, by leveraging CERF’s…

• Unparalleled speed,
• Operational expertise and reach in complex crises,
• Robust, needs based allocation criteria,
• Strategic targeting, and
• Investment in coordinated, cost-effective and principled humanitarian action.