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Aghsan Foundation has high ambitions regarding carbon accounting and reducing the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the organization. The 2021 Climate and Environmental Performance Report sets the baseline and starts the process towards reducing the carbon footprint around all of the Aghsan Foundation's work.
Inspired by the global commitments, the Aghsan Foundation aims to reduce its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and minimize any negative environmental impacts associated with our conduct and operations. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing harm to the environment contributes to global climate action ambitions and protecting the natural resource-based livelihoods, health and security of displaced populations and host communities. Aghsan Foundation is committed to changing its existing way of operating to reduce emissions and working toward the global commitment to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees. This is done in an ambitious, transparent, and accountable fashion that over time will be implemented across all operations. Aghsan Foundation aims to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by a minimum of 50% in 2030 compared to 2019 levels. As a result, up to 20 country operations have started elaborating their carbon accounting baselines and specific reduction action plans to be implemented.
The Paris Agreement affirms a global aim of strengthening the response to the threats of climate change. It does so by striving to keep the global temperature rise this century well below 2.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C, finding that limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.
Mitigation refers to the reduction of the rate of climate change via the management of its causal factors, i.e. the emission of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion, agriculture, land use changes, cement production, etc. (UNFCCC). UNEP defines mitigation as using new technologies and renewable energy, making older equipment more energy efficient, or changing management practices or consumer behavior.
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