International Rescue Committee (IRC)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a humanitarian aid organisation that helps people affected by crises to survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. 

It supports individuals and communities caught in crisis in five key areas: ensuring safety from harm, improving health, increasing access to education, enhancing economic well-being, and enabling people to influence decisions that affect their lives. Across all of these areas, IRC works to tackle gender inequality, seeking to understand and address the unique needs and barriers facing women and girls, who make up the majority of those displaced. 

Operating in more than 40 crisis-affected countries, the organisation also provides resettlement, asylum, and integration services in communities across the United States and Europe. 

In 2025, the Climate Action Accelerator and IRC entered a partnership aiming at developing a roadmap to reduce IRC’s Environmental Footprint. This roadmap aligns with IRC’s Strategy 100 and with the Strategic Action Plans approach. By joining the Accelerator, the organisation has committed to developing an innovative climate operations roadmap and implementation plan to help identify negative environmental impacts, outline mitigation measures, and assess operational climate vulnerabilities, with the goal of improving the IRC’s adaptive capacity and strengthening its ability to deliver. 

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