GCA launches the 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Awards
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otterdam, the Netherlands, June 19, 2025 — The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) has launched the 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Awards to celebrate and reward outstanding, innovative, and scalable locally led initiatives that effectively address climate change impacts and enhance resilience among vulnerable communities worldwide.
Applicants can apply under the categories:
- Nature-Based Solutions: For community-led initiatives that use nature-based solutions to protect critical local infrastructure.
- Women’s Livelihoods: For community-led initiatives that enhance women’s entrepreneurship, economic empowerment and resilience.
- Citizen Science: For community-driven research initiatives that are needs-based, solutions-oriented, and have measurable impact on climate-vulnerable populations.
- Health: For locally led initiatives that strengthen community health and psychosocial resilience in response to the impacts of climate change.
Application Details: Applications are open from June 6 to July 6, 2025. Eligible interventions must demonstrate tangible results, focus on the most vulnerable, and adhere to Locally Led Adaptation Principles.
For more information and to apply, please visit the Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation
Contact
Anju Sharma, Global Lead on Locally Led Adaptation, Global Center on Adaptation
Anju.sharma@gca.org
Notes to Editors
About the Global Center on Adaptation
The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) is an international organization that promotes adaptation to the impacts of climate change. It works to climate-proof development by instigating policy reforms and influencing investments made by international financial institutions and the private sector. The goal is to bring climate adaptation to the forefront of the global fight against climate change and ensure that it remains prominent.
Founded in 2018, GCA embodies innovation in its approach to climate adaptation as well as in its physical presence. It operates from the largest floating office in the world, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. GCA has a worldwide network of regional offices in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Beijing, China. The Center will open a new office in Nairobi, Kenya in 2025.
