The Step Change initiative has approved seven new projects aimed at accelerating action and generating momentum for locally led climate adaptation in Africa.

Applications were received from individuals and organizations all around the world, and the five finalists in the Capacity Building category are implementing a diverse range of innovations that support a continuous and evolving process of learning.

The final five shortlisted in the Innovation in Devolving Finance category for the 2023 LAC Awards are exemplary, inspiring, and scalable examples of programs and projects that find innovative ways to enable and support local determination of climate challenges, priorities, and solutions.

The Women in Leadership category at this year’s Local Adaptation Champions Awards spotlights women leaders at the local, national, or global level who have designed or are implementing climate-resilience efforts in and for local communities.

The final five nominees in the Business Adaptations Solutions category demonstrate how small and large businesses are expanding access to adaptation solutions or technologies that address local climate-related vulnerabilities. The solutions also support efforts to address structural inequalities.

The Global Center on Adaptation has selected the 20 shortlisted finalists for the 2023 Local Adaptation Champions Awards in four categories: Capacity Building, Business Adaptation Solutions, Innovation in Devolving Finance, and Women in Leadership.

40 journalists and 24 young communicators from 6 climate vulnerable districts in Bangladesh were trained in communicating locally led efforts to adapt to climate change. The workshops were organized by GCA's Global Hub on LLA and BBC Media Action to increase media coverage on LLA efforts in Bangladesh while training young people for employment opportunities related to communicating LLA.

Community Leaders from Mukuru, the largest informal settlement in Nairobi, showcased some of the early initiatives from their People’s Adaptation Plan to a visiting international delegation today. The delegation included Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair, Global Center on Adaptation (GCA); Professor Patrick Verkooijen, CEO, GCA and Distinguished Chair of The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies; Dan Jørgensen, Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Denmark; and Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, France.

Statement developed by residents of Mukuru, one of the biggest informal settlements in Africa, at a Community Dialogue organized by Global Center on Adaptation and Akiba Mashinani Trust on 3 September 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, in advance of the 2023 Africa Climate Summit.

The Adaptation Fund announced its support to the 2023 GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards, which recognize individuals and organizations from across the globe that are at the forefront of delivering innovative, inspiring, and scalable locally led efforts to build effective climate resilience among vulnerable communities.

The critical role of the media in communicating local adaptation efforts was discussed by over 20 senior television journalists in Dhaka, at a workshop organized by the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and BBC Media Action on 13 August 2023.

With over 50% of urban residents living in informal settlements in Bangladesh, addressing their vulnerability is a key priority. At this national workshop, participants discussed how supporting secondary cities to plan for climate migration could reduce informality and support economic growth, turning a potential burden into an opportunity.

Kenya's First Lady Rachel Ruto has voiced her support for The Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program, launched by the African Development Bank (ADB) and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA).

As curtains closed on COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Adaptation Consortium, a Kenyan organisation emerged among winners of the Local Adaptation Champions Awards, organised by the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA).

The Executive Director of BRAC, Asif Saleh, writes that we have both a moral imperative and a clear economic case for supporting low-income countries to adapt to the climate crisis. Bringing the expertise and resources of the public and private sectors together, working with governments, could save millions of lives and billions in disaster response, and slow climate migration. Without it, what is happening in Bangladesh will happen to the rest of the world.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday launched the Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation that aims to serve as a global platform on climate adaptation under the aegis of the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA).

Patrick Verkooijen, the CEO of the GCA, explains how investing in climate change adaptation can bring higher returns on investment in an interview with United News of Bangladesh.

In an interview with Dhaka Tribune’s Ali Asif Shawon, GCA CEO Patrick V Verkooijen explains why Bangladesh was chosen as the location for the GCA's Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation.

Investing in climate adaptation is not just the right thing to do, but is also the economically smart thing to do says GCA CEO Patrick Verkooijen, during the launch of the Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation.

বাংলাদেশ ঢাকায় গ্লোবাল সেন্টার অন অ্যাডাপ্টেশন (জিসিএ) আঞ্চলিক কার্যালয়কে এই অঞ্চল এবং এর বাইরেও শ্রেষ্ঠত্বের কেন্দ্র হিসেবে আবির্ভূত হওয়ার অপেক্ষায় রয়েছে-প্রধানমন্ত্রী গণভবন থেকে ভার্চুয়ালি ফরেন সার্ভিস একাডেমিতে যোগদান করে ‘গ্লোবাল হাব অন লোকালি লেড অ্যাডাপ্টেশন’ খোলার ঘোষণা দিয়ে এ কথা বলেন।

ফরেন সার্ভিস একাডেমিতে ‘গ্লোবাল হাব অন লোকালি লেড অ্যাডাপটেশন’ খোলার ঘোষণা দিয়ে প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা বলেন, আমাদের স্থানীয়রা তাদের প্রথা জ্ঞানে জলবায়ুর সঙ্গে খাপ খাইয়ে নেয়ার চেষ্টা করে থাকেন। আমাদের সরকার উদ্বোধনী শক্তি ও সম্পদ দিয়ে তাদের পাশে আছে। বাংলাদেশ এখন বিশ্বে জলবায়ুর ঝুঁকি মোকাবিলায় রোল মডেল হিসেবে বিবেচিত হয়।

গণভবন থেকে ভার্চুয়ালি ফরেন সার্ভিস একাডেমিতে যোগদান করে ‘গ্লোবাল হাব অন লোকাললি লেড অ্যাডাপটেশন’ খোলার ঘোষণা দিয়ে প্রধানমন্ত্রী বলেন, ‘আমাদের অভ্যন্তরীণ এবং আন্তর্জাতিক সংস্থান থেকে আমাদের এনএপি বাস্তবায়নে ২৩০ বিলিয়ন মার্কিন ডলার প্রয়োজন। বাংলাদেশ আন্তর্জাতিক জলবায়ু অর্থায়ন থেকে অভিযোজন এবং প্রশমনের মধ্যে ৫০-৫০ বণ্টনের চেষ্টা চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে।

Bangladesh will have 20 million climate migrants by 2050. The GCA is committed to developing climate-resilient migrant friendly towns, says GCA CEO Prof. Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, during the launch of the Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

গণভবন থেকে ভার্চুয়ালি ঢাকার ফরেন সার্ভিস একাডেমিতে যুক্ত হয়ে ‘গ্লোবাল হাব অন লোকালি লেড অ্যাডাপটেশন’খোলার ঘোষণা দিয়ে প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা বলেন - বাংলাদেশ সরকার আজ চালু হওয়া স্থানীয় নেতৃত্বাধীন অভিযোজন বিষয়ে গ্লোবাল হাবকে সম্ভাব্য সব ধরনের সহায়তা দেবে।

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked international partners to come forward to support Bangladesh in implementing its National Adaptation Plan during the inauguration of the GCA's Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation on 11 December 2022.