GCA intern Taylor Black discusses how possibilities for LLA to transform climate adaptation for the better are vast, but that realizing this vision requires dismantling entrenched barriers and fostering equitable collaboration.

IIED-América Latina was awarded a Global Center on Adaptation Local Adaptation Champions Award in the category of Urban Adaptation Solutions.

The Associated Press report on the 2024 Local Adaptation Champions.

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 in the 2024 Stories of Resilience!

At the 29th UN Climate Conference (COP29) in Baku, the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) released the 2024 edition of the Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice series presenting powerful insights from communities across the globe that are leading the way in locally led adaptation (LLA) practices.

Winners of the 2024 Local Adaptation Champions Awards featured four innovative adaptation initiatives empowering communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) hosted its flagship COP29 event, “Global Champions for Locally Led Adaptation”, at the Resilience Hub in Baku, Azerbaijan today. The event brought together the international community to spotlight the transformative power of locally led adaptation, celebrating the winners of the 2024 Local Adaptation Champion (LAC) Awards presented to four exceptional community initiatives from around the world.

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 in the 2024 Stories of Resilience!

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

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

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.

The Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation organized a knowledge and experience sharing session on 7 October 2024 for partners who are working with climate vulnerable communities to develop People’s Adaptation Plans with support from GCA.

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.

The Global Center on Adaptation marked a significant milestone in climate adaptation, sustainable urban development, and green jobs with the inauguration of 12 Black Soldier Fly units in Mukuru, Nairobi . The initiative, undertaken with key global and local partners, is set to revolutionize waste management in one of Nairobi's largest informal settlements while providing employment opportunities for young people by equipping them with skills in sustainable agriculture, waste management, and business management.

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.