Winners of the 2022 and 2023 Local Adaptation Champions (LAC) Awards presented their triumphs and challenges at Gobeshona Global Conference 4, including funding, political support and goodwill, opportunities to scale, and further accolades.
As part of GCA’s Global Hub on LLA, the LAC Awards reward and spotlight innovative, inspiring, and scalable locally-led efforts to build climate resilience among the most vulnerable communities. The 2023 winners include:
The Pastoral Women's Council (PWC), winners in the Women in Leadership category, for empowering Indigenous pastoralist women in northern Tanzania.
Espacio de Encuentro de las Culturas Originarias, A.C., winners in the Capacity Building category, for engaging communities in the development and implementation of ecotechnologies such as dry toilets, energy-saving stoves, fog catchers, and vegetable patch irrigation systems in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Aumsat Technologies LLP, winners in the Business Adaptation Solutions category, for a technology that uses satellite-based radar analytics to pinpoint underground water sources and optimal locations for groundwater recharge sites in India.
The Local Government Initiative on Climate Change (LoGIC), winners in the Innovation in Devolving Finance category, for innovation in supporting local communities to help get finance for local adaptation actions.
See more information on the 2023 LAC Awards here.