The Shelter Cluster Nepal has developed an “Environmental Country Profile for Shelter Response” that informs environmentally sustainable shelter programming by making key information about environmental considerations, impacts, concerns, and opportunities relevant to shelter and settlements programming available and accessible to Shelter Cluster partners. This profile covers the country-wide context and is intended to provide a quick basic understanding of the country-wide context and the most crucial factors that are relevant for environmentally sustainable shelter related operations. The information in this document can serve as a baseline of environmental issues facing the country of relevance to humanitarian shelter and settlements interventions. A technical working group (TWG) was established to develop the profile and ensure that the process drew on the extensive knowledge of Shelter Cluster partners and Government counterparts working across Nepal The profile was developed with financial support from DG ECHO and USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.