The Global Center on Adaptation has selected the 20 shortlisted finalists for the 2023 Local Adaptation Champions Awards in four categories: Capacity Building, Business Adaptation Solutions, Innovation in Devolving Finance, and Women in Leadership.

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM - The Executive Director of BRAC, Asif Saleh, writes that we have both a moral imperative and a clear economic case for supporting low-income countries to adapt to the climate crisis. Bringing the expertise and resources of the public and private sectors together, working with governments, could save millions of lives and billions in disaster response, and slow climate migration. Without it, what is happening in Bangladesh will happen to the rest of the world.

Pune-based non-profit Swayam Shikshan Prayog was recognised for its efforts in helping women farmers in the Marathwada region adopt climate-resilient agricultural practices for over two decades at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27).

HINDUSTAN TIMES - Swayam Shikshan Prayog won the award in the ‘capacity and knowledge’ category for the work in supporting women farmers to adopt more resilient and sustainable agricultural practices in Marathwada in Maharashtra.

Launched by GCA in 2022, the Local Adaptation Champions Awards spotlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring, and scalable locally led efforts that address the impacts of climate change and build effective climate resilience.

NORVAN REPORTS - Community-led initiatives for climate change adaptation recognized at COP27. The four winners of the Local Adaptation Champions Awards, organized by the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), were announced today at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.

CIKYCAKY - Globálne centrum pre adaptáciu (GCA) uznalo štyri organizácie vedené komunitou za priekopníkov v oblasti adaptácie na zmenu klímy pre zraniteľné miestne komunity.

Viacerí hodnostári sa zúčastnili včerajšieho podujatia na klimatickom summite COP27 v Egypte a uznali dôležitosť uznania.

THE GUARDIAN - As the talks continued, there was a day of protests on Saturday outside the UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh.

THE TIMES OF INDIA - In a pilot project in the wake of the 1993 Latur earthquake, over a thousand women took the lead as facilitators between the government and their communities for rehabilitation work. Nearly 30 years later, this model, of organising women for a community effort, has proved itself through earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, droughts, and, most recently, a pandemic.

Victor Orindi, a UoN PhD student was awarded €15,000 on Friday, Nov 12, 2022 at the ongoing UN Climate Change in Egypt, COP27. Victor is among four Individuals that were recognized for community-led initiatives for climate change adaptation.

DHAKA TRIBUNE - The award was given to the Rangamati Hill District Council initiative where the residents were combatting worsening droughts, landslides and flash floods

GREEN WATCH - Bangladesh and four other countries have been awarded the Local Adaptation Champions Awards at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.

TIMES OF NEWS - Bangladesh has been awarded the Local Adaptation Champions Awards at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt along with three other countries.

KAHBAR HUB -  The Community Development and Advocacy Forum working in various districts of Madhes Province in Nepal received an award of 15,000 Euros. The Forum received the award in the local innovation category under the Local Adaptation Champion Award, granted by the Global Center on Adaptation based in the Netherlands.