To ensure that the communities can live in a healthy and sustainable environment and that they can adapt to climate change. This aims at empowering the communities with knowledge about climate change, their causes and consequences, and at providing skills and competencies to mitigate their actions to protect their environment. A focus will be given to alternatives to charcoal and wood fuel use, to water security and to land access and preservation.

Research on future scenarios predict climate change will have a dramatic effect on natural environments, plants, and animals, leading to acceleration in biodiversity loss in some areas. The impacts will have knock-on effects for many communities and sectors that depend on natural resources, including agriculture, fisheries, energy, tourism, and water. Climate change may aggravate erosion, decline in organic matter, salinization, soil biodiversity loss, landslides, desertification, and flooding. The effect of climate change on soil carbon storage can be related to changing atmospheric CO₂ concentrations, increased temperatures and changing precipitation patterns. This is worse for refugees and refugee hosting communities who depend on the land for their source of survival. CEPAD therefore plans to carry out interventions focusing educating the communities to climate change and its impact on the environments and introduce the communities to alternative sources of fuel and reduce dependency on fuel and charcoal.