UNHCR Environmental Guidelines

Aiming to lay the basis for incorporating environmental factors into specific UNHCR guidance/guidelines, those outlined in this report aims to provide a framework within which UNHCR staff will be able to:

- Identify and evaluate environmental impacts and assign a rough economic cost to these
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to undertake positive environmental interventions
- Select interventions combining the interests of refugees, receiving country, donors and UNHCR

The guidelines are part of an effort to better understand and deal with the negative environmental impacts associated with refugee situations.