The 7th Adaptation Futures Conference (the Conference) took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in November 2023. The Conference brought together decision-makers, practitioners, business representatives, and communicators to exchange knowledge and co-create solutions for climate change adaptation. This Conference was enlightening and rewarding to me for the following reasons: witnessing the intellectual presence of Indigenous Peoples, sharing the adaptation-related research findings …

New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it Climate finance for adaptation projects is delivered through a chain comprising actors that provide the funds, intermediaries that allocate those funds and local communities and organisations that implement projects with the money they receive. But not enough money is reaching local …

Climate Tribune | July 2023 Articles in the series “Can donors enhance the capabilities of local actors to access climate finance?” by Afsara Binte Mirza, Victoria Matusevich, Ameil Harikishun, Kazi Taiba Bari Nowsheen and May Thazin Aung “Challenges & Prospects: The Road to Realizing Locally Led Climate Adaptation Principles” by AIY Lankapura “Flexible Funding and Programming for Locally Led Adaptation: …

The members of the Kurna Community addressed climate change impacts by using nature-based solutions such as afforestation by leveraging indigenous resources. Kurna community, located in Kano State in Northern Nigeria, is particularly vulnerable to climate impacts like extreme heat and is already experiencing detrimental effects. Over the past two decades, the Kurna community has been suffering from the socio-economic impacts …

Smallholder farmers in the Umzingwane district from the southern part of Zimbabwe are taking up locally-led initiatives and indigenous knowledge to adapt to unpredictable climate patterns. This is the eleventh of the ‘Voices from the Frontline (Phase-II)’ stories by ICCCAD and GRP. Zimbabwe is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Erratic and unpredictable rainfall patterns affect livelihoods of many families, …

A conversation from COP27 on inclusive locally led adaptation. When it comes to climate change adaptation in affected communities, top-down approaches where international- and national-level decision-makers drive interventions do not work. In recognition of this, efforts to promote locally led adaptation (LLA) have been growing steadily and in August 2022, over 100 organisations endorsed eight core principles to strengthen the …

Catalytic Grant Programme Towards Enhancing Locally-led Adaptation and Resilience Practices The Catalytic Grant Programme was inaugurated at the Global Gobeshona Conference in 2021 to assist and create continuity between events such as Global Gobeshona Conference, Development Climate days, London climate action week, Community based adaptation (CBA) Conference and Conference of Parties (COPs). These conference gatherings allow this community of practice …

The need for adaptation finance currently and in the future, Bangladesh will be dictated by the economic losses and damages (L&D) inflicted by the recurring and devastating climatic disasters that visit Bangladesh each year. As of yet there are no authoritative, national-level L&D assessments in Bangladesh, but international development agencies like the Asian Development Bank predict that 2% to 9% …