The Center for People & Environment (CPE) has issued a call for abstracts in the lead up to the Second South Asia Conference on “Unfolding Emerging Issues in the Context of Changing Climatic Scenario”. The Conference will be held on 2 and 3 November 2024 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The deadline for abstract submissions is 31 August 2024.

The fourth Gobeshona Global Conference will be held virtually from 1-8 March 2024, and focus on the theme of Monitoring Locally-Led Adaptation and Resilience. The annual Conference aims to bring together international partners to explore and share experiences on locally led adaptation, while showcasing diverse implementation methods, progress monitoring, and lessons learned.

The CRPP Partnership Forum 2024 will take place at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand from 27th and 28th February, and will spotlight climate risk, poverty reduction and gender equality though decentralization programs and skills development.

This book explores the dynamics of equitable research partnerships, providing practical recommendations to overcome obstacles and forge effective collaborations between academia and diverse communities.

A national workshop on urban flooding in India highlights the imperative of inclusive policies for flood resistance, and the engagement of communities for formulating guidelines and for resource distribution.

The Community Dialogue organized a day before the Africa Climate Summit will seek inputs from community members, on how adaptation finance can not only be doubled by 2025, but also be made more accessible by communities, and flexible and predictable to address their needs more effectively.

At the second planning meeting of the Bangladesh National Platform on Locally Led Adaptation on 17 August 2023, participants discussed a mechanism to promote a "360 accountability" approach that is currently being piloted through the Community Led Innovation for Climate Risk Mitigation project in Cox's Bazaar. The mechanism is focused on tracking LLA finance flows; groundtruthing with metrics and markers; and dialogues to bring together divergent perspectives on LLA.

Communities and local governments need the right information, at the right scale, to inform locally-led adaptation planning processes. How can this best be delivered in ways that are more targeted to local needs, and more accessible and usable by local actors? Communities around the world are collecting data to understand their own risks and vulnerabilities. How can their efforts be recognised and supported? This Roundtable convened community representatives and experts to discuss challenges and opportunities to data available for LLA.

1300-1430 GMT on 14 March 2023

The 2022 GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards recognize locally led efforts to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change across four categories: financial governance, inclusive leadership, capacity and knowledge, and local innovation. The four winners of the Awards in 2022, from Asia and Africa, shared their work during Gobeshona 2023.     

10:00-11:30 GMT on 16 March 2023

The GCA South Asia Partnership Forum took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 December 2022, right after the launch of the Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation and focused on sharing experiences and lessons on scaling up LLA.

“Our government will extend all possible support to the Global Center on Adaptation and its newly launched global initiative on Locally Led Adaptation," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, while launching the launching the Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation. "We are pleased to have this as yet another offering from Bangladesh for the climate-vulnerable peoples around the world.”

The planning process in Mukuru to improve water management, roads and sanitation shows how locally led action can unlock the enormous potential and creativity of communities to develop and implement solutions, while catalyzing adaptation that is more effective, equitable and better targeted at local needs.

Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice, published by the GCA in collaboration with Independent University, Bangladesh and the International Institute for Climate Change and Development, was launched on 14 November 2022 during COP 27 at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

The four winners of the GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards 2022, were announced on 12th November 2022 at the COP27 through a side event at the Resilience Hub. The awards recognize locally led efforts to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change across four categories: financial governance, inclusive leadership, capacity and knowledge, and local innovation.

The third virtual Gobeshona Global Conference, scheduled to take place from 10-16 March 2023, will focus on 'Monitoring Locally Led Adaptation'.

The first meeting of the National Platform on Locally-Led Adaptation in Bangladesh took place on 28 September 2022 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and discussed key messages for COP 27.