GCA will host a reception to meet with, hear from, and celebrate the winners of the 2024 Local Adaptation Champions Awards. This year the Awards will recognize the efforts of local adaptation practitioners in four categories: Food Security, Local Entrepreneurship, Urban Adaptation Solutions, and Water Security.

What are development partners, multilateral institutions, and national governments doing, to support LLA? How do communities in Latin America rate climate finance providers, on their performance on LLA? What are farmers in Cambodia and coral gardeners in St Lucia doing, to adapt to climate change?

Find out soon in the 2024 Stories of Resilience!

As the international community gathers in Azerbaijan for COP29, connected to the work of the Global Hub, the GCA COP29 Leaders Event “Global Champions for LLA” is the Global Center’s flagship event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at Baku. It will serve as a celebration of the possibilities of adaptation action led by, and for, communities most affected by the climate crisis and include the presentation of the 2024 Local Adaptation Champion Awards.

What are development partners, multilateral institutions, and national governments doing, to support LLA? How do communities in Latin America rate climate finance providers, on their performance on LLA? What are farmers in Cambodia and coral gardeners in St Lucia doing, to adapt to climate change?

Find out soon in the 2024 Stories of Resilience!

Less than 5% of total public adaptation finance provided between 2016-2021 reached Least Developed Countries (LDCs). To rectify this, LDCs have signed a compact with development partners to spark a transformation in how LDCs finance, develop, deliver and learn from long term adaptation and resilience efforts.

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) today announced a ground-breaking partnership aimed at embedding climate resilience in Rwanda’s local economic development efforts. This collaboration, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Local Administrative Entities Development Agency (LODA) and BRAC International, marks an additional milestone to strengthen existing efforts to integrate climate adaptation into local economic development initiatives across Rwanda.

Expanding LLA strategies by communities in Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana can play a major role in addressing the unique challenges posed by climate change on local communities. Experience across Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal demonstrate that communities have been adapting to the impacts of climate change, to varying degrees. But LLA strategies in west Africa face a number of stumbling blocks.

Garbage blocks many drains and waterways in Nairobi, worsening the effects of flooding. Residents are breeding millions of flies to consume that waste and help keep streets and homes dry. This Global Center on Adaptation project is featured on Bloomberg.com.

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) announced the 21 nominees for the 2024 Local Adaptation Champions Awards today. These prestigious awards, which spotlight groundbreaking and scalable locally led efforts, celebrate innovation in addressing the growing impacts of climate change while fostering resilience at the community level. The nominees have been selected in four categories: Water Security, Food Security, Local Entrepreneurship, and Urban Adaptation Solutions. This year the Global Center on Adaptation received a record 870 applications from organizations in 107 countries.

A one- size-fits-all approach to establishing heat safety thresholds won’t work. Instead, heat safety limits need to be evaluated for different socially vulnerable groups, such as neonates, infants, children, and pregnant and postpartum women.

GCA inaugurates black soldier fly units in Mukuru to drive climate resilience and youth employment.

Gladys Wanga, Governor of Homa Bay County, Kenya, spoke passionately about the power of People’s Adaptation Plans at the Global Center on Adaptation Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program Partnership Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. GCA is partnering with Homa Bay County to produce People’s Adaptation Plans which empower local communities to make their own plans for climate adaptation.

Community initiatives are the starting point for transformative adaptation to ready our world for a changed climate, according to this study.

MSMEs, smallholder farmers and informal individual entrepreneurs are the most important private sector actors for truly locally led adaptation because they are already heavily invested in adapting to climate change impacts.

Climate-induced disasters are forcing people to migrate out of mountainous areas, and in the process their languages and cultures are being profoundly affected.

Severe heat in Bangladesh has exposed critical food security challenges, affecting everything from fruit production to paddy and poultry farming.

With no reliable statistics on the number of homeless people in Karachi, there are no plans in place to help them cope with extreme heat and rain.

Indian regulatory codes are largely advisory when it comes to dealing with heat, ignoring humidity altogether, placing millions in danger during heatwaves and monsoons.

An Indian philanthropy is redefining the relationship between fund providers and recipients.

Responding to a call to action on extreme heat by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, a group of philanthropies have agreed to invest US$ 50 million in rapid-response funding.

Indigenous practices, rooted in reverence for natural and community-centric approaches, can offer vital insights for promoting global sustainability and resilience.

Climate knowledge is often built top-down, overlooking diverse experiences and expertise of women and marginalized communities. This needs to change.

During this session hosted by Micro Save Consulting, panelists explored the key challenges, opportunities, optimal solutions, and innovative approaches to ensure effective climate adaptation strategies in Africa.

A one-of-its-kind insurance policy has started making payouts to tens of thousands of women across India to help them cope with the impact of extreme heat.

Bangladesh has won the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) for its leading role in introducing local adaptation program to face climate change impacts.