The Shelter and CCCM Cluster Timor Leste has developed the “Environmental Country Profile for Shelter Response” to fill a gap in the knowledge base of the cluster highlighted during past responses. The profile 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. It aims to save the user time in investigating these issues by compiling existing information and pointing to key issues, additional sources of information and further references. After a disaster, the information in this profile will need to be contextualised based on the impacts of the disaster. 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 in 2023 to ensure that the process of drafting this profile drew on the extensive knowledge of CCCM and Shelter Cluster partners and Government counterparts working across Timor Leste. The profile was developed with financial support from DG ECHO and USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.