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People sitting under a straw tent next to rice fields
CBA17: back in person, ready to harness energy to drive forward the locally led adaptation agenda
… This year’s international community-based adaptation conference (CBA17)  will be our first in-person conference … space for more learning and sharing of ways to enable locally led adaptation – including putting the principles for locally led adaptation (LLA)  into practice . But there is no substitute for the …
Insight, 15 March 2023
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Bilan mondial : trois priorités pour la mise en oeuvre des mesures d’adaptation
… seront. Dans ce briefing, nous abordons les différentes dimensions d’adaptation attendues dans le cadre du GST, ainsi que les progrès … contributions au GST : élaborer un récit cohérent de leurs mesures d’adaptation nationales, mettre sur pied une procédure inclusive qui garantisse que les mesures d’adaptation donnent voix au chapitre à tous les secteurs de la société, …
Publication, 27 October 2021
Fishers in a small boat unpack the fish they have caught
Climate Adaptation Summit 2021
… The online international Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 on 25 and 26 January, hosted by the Netherlands, … leaders and local stakeholders. It saw the launch of a comprehensive adaptation action agenda that sets out clear commitments to deliver … to kick off the 2021 'super year' for climate and nature. Raising adaptation ambition on the road to the UNFCCC COP26 is critical for …
Event, 25 January 2021
Speakers, including chief executive officer of the COP32 presidency secretariat office and member of the government of Ethiopia Negusu Aklilu, IIED executive director Tom Mitchell, the Rt Hon. Baroness Chapman of Darlington and chief executive officer of British International Investment Leslie Maasdorp, at the opening plenary of the 2026 summi
Brutal heatwave spurs leaders to action at climate resilience finance summit
… effects of extreme weather.  IIED’s commitment to locally led climate adaptation, the rights and needs of low-income communities, and better … the chief of Brazil’s COP30 presidency, said: “We are talking about adaptation in the way we talked about mitigation 15 years ago. We need …
News, 26 June 2026
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Principles for locally led adaptation
… and marginalised ethnic groups — and putting agency over their own adaptation into their hands. To support this shift, we present eight principles for locally led adaptation and invite adaptation stakeholders to join us on a complementary ten-year learning … Principles for locally led adaptation …
Publication, 22 January 2021
Woman sitting leg crossed on the floor hold a laptop in front of an audience of men
Online tool helps people in rural India adapt to climate change
News, 20 October 2022
People building a wall out of disused tyres.
Tegucigalpa: From climate change adaptation to mitigation strategies in informal urban settlements
… Tegucigalpa: From climate change adaptation to mitigation strategies in informal urban settlements …
Article, 14 February 2024
Participants of the CBA9 conference in Kenya in 2015 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Global Initiative on Community-Based Adaptation (GICBA)
… A growing interest in community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change in developing countries resulted in a … of this collective thinking, the Global Initiative on Community-Based Adaptation (GICBA) was developed to enable sharing and synergies between … by all organisations (and individuals) working on community-based adaptation to climate change. The GICBA platform was launched by IIED in …
Project, 06 August 2015
Man crouching next to a crop bed.
Significant new support for locally led adaptation principles
… significant new donor backing, which comes on the climate summit’s Adaptation and Resilience Day . Our webpage on the principles for locally led adaptation lists all eight principles and the existing endorsers. Real … some of the excluded local people that the principles for locally led adaptation intend to support. At COP26,  Green Africa Youth …
News, 08 November 2021
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Four ways local organisations can use AI to support locally led adaptation and build resilience
… industry. But what does it mean for those on the frontline of climate adaptation work?   Beyond ChatGPT– a dialogue-based information tool – … aid and climate finance sector.   Their ability to put locally led adaptation into practice by applying their own expertise to support … fiduciary management, resilience, monitoring and evaluation, and adaptation options.   AI tools can highlight ways to reduce fiduciary …
Insight, 25 May 2023