How STRENGTH Grants Empowered Young Researchers to Bring Local Perspectives on Loss and Damage Climate change is no longer a distant threat but an unfolding reality, with frontline communities experiencing escalating losses and damages that exceed the limits of adaptation. While economic losses such as damage to infrastructure, livelihoods, and assets are increasingly documented, NELD, including the erosion of culture, …

This study assesses the humanitarian impacts of climate change by identifying vulnerabilities and challenges faced by local communities. The study includes local perspectives, gained through community engagement, ensuring active participation in assessing climate-related impacts.   Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download Report. Originally this report was published by CEA

The 27th UN climate conference (COP27) reached a key milestone in launching a brand-new loss and damage (L&D) fund and was a critical moment for addressing climate justice issues. This agreement took place after decades of consecutive and effectual advocacy from small island states, least developed countries and civil society in the Global South. The L&D fund will allow vulnerable …

Over the last few decades, it has been recognised that adaptation approaches are more likely to succeed if they are rooted in local knowledge and empower communities to make their own decisions. However, research conducted by GTS and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in 2021 shows that the fine aspirations found in the documentation to engage and …

The stories in this compilation, based on the sessions of the 2022 Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation, are an important basis for us to understand the difference between local action and locally led action, and to identify effective ways of supporting local leadership. The publication is based on case-studies from the 2nd annual  gobeshona global conference, on locally led adaptation, hosted …

Report on ICCCAD’s Learning Hub Event (LHE) about “Zero Hunger – Zero Emissions Project findings” held in August 2018. Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF.