Tag: Locally Led Adaptation
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Reflecting on the learnings from the 7th Adaptation Futures Conference in Montreal
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,…
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New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it
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…
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Climate Tribune | July 2023
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…
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Trees of hope: How Kurna people planted trees to adapt to the climate crisis
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…
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Promoting Indigenous Knowledge to strengthen community led adaptation
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…
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‘It is not easy, but one cannot give up’
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…
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Financing for adaptation in Bangladesh
The potential sources of financing for Adaptation in Bangladesh
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…
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Recording | ICCCAD and IUB E-Lecture Series -Gregg B. Walker
Lecture on “Organizing and Empowering Local Voices and Views: Collaborative Alignment and Locally-Led Adaptation Planning and Action” by Prof. Gregg B. Walker International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Science and Management at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a webinar on 13th September 2021 (Monday) Prof. Gregg B…
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We must urgently prioritise adaptation to address the climate emergency
The recently-published report of Working Group-I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a renewed wakeup call on the urgency of taking action at the global level to address climate change. It has, with more accuracy and confidence, confirmed that at least one degree Celsius of temperature rise compared to pre-industrial level can…
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Locally Led Adaptation
Climate Tribune | February 2021 List of Articles “Locally led adaptation to climate changes comes of age” by Saleemul Huq “In locally-led adaptation, “locality”and “leadership” remain unclear” by Danielle Faizon “My reflections on the first virtual Gobeshona conference” by Susan Nanduddu “The importance of learning about climate change from the Global South” by Farhana Sultana “Indigenous peoples…
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Locally led adaptation: drivers for appropriate grassroots initiatives
Abstract Adapting to the impacts of climate change is one of the most urgent priorities of our time. Given that the impacts of climate change are experienced at local scales, it makes sense that adaptation should occur locally, and yet, despite this, locals often have little control over how adaptation is funded, designed and delivered…