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Leaders’ Communique: Adaptation Finance Summit for Africa

1 December 2023

GCA joins forces with CGIAR to scale up agricultural innovation for climate adaptation

3 December 2023

Let’s Put People Back at the Heart of Climate Action

30 November 2023

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Patrick Verkooijen

GCA at COP28

29 November 2023

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COP28 Needs to Figure Out How to Live With Climate Change

8 December 2023

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Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of Global Center on Adaptation on BBC News during COP28 in Dubai

7 December 2023

La tecnología sostenible que transformó la cocina de doña Elia en Oaxaca es premiada en la COP28

6 December 2023

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Youth Education and Adaptation Jobs

We empower young people to make the case for adaptation on the global stage and make their communities more climate resilient through education and adaptation jobs.

Water and Urban

The impact of climate change will be most acutely expressed through water, which has historically defined and enabled human development.

Infrastructure and NbS

Beyond the direct damages to assets by extreme events such as wildfires, floods and landslides, the physical climate impacts are being felt with infrastructure and having a real human and economic costs on our societies.

Locally Led Adaptation

We need to ensure action is locally-led, to involve communities in adaptation decision-making and co-creation of solutions, and ensure climate finance reaches communities.

Adaptation Finance

The world needs to mobilize the billions and shift the trillions for a climate resilient and risk-informed transformation of the world economy.

Food Security

We need to transform agriculture to sustain habitats and biodiversity, and withstand rapid environmental change to feed global population.

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Global youth adaptation movement urges leaders to scale up adaptation finance

COP28

6 December 2023

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COP28 Launch of 2023 Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice

1 December 2023

Thriving Through Change: Innovative Adaptation Tools for Resilient Food Systems in Africa

Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program

21 November 2023

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