Reports
State and Trends in Climate Adaptation Finance 2023
This report covers global status and trends of adaptation finance and provides a deeper analysis of Africa at a regional level, given the heightened adaptation needs and opportunities on the continent. Across the globe, and especially in Africa, climate smart and resilient development pathways offer enormous investment opportunities with a triple dividend of avoided losses, positive economic gains, and enhanced social and environmental benefits.
29 November 2023
Youth Adaptation Solutions Challenge Impact Report
The Impact Report highlights the achievements of the inaugural African Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthADAPT) Challenge cohort, demonstrating how investing in youth-led enterprises catalyzes the growth of micro and small to medium-sized enterprises, creates thousands of jobs and contributes to a more resilient future.
4 December 2023
Youth Engagement with Adaptation through the Global Stocktake
This report presents the outcomes of five Regional Youth Adaptation Forums and five Regional African Youth Consultations on Adaptation, which brought together over 6,550 young people in 137 countries in 2023.
3 December 2023
2023 Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice
In this year’s Stories of Resilience, we bring you a crucial message from communities implementing adaptation on the ground: global and national systems are not changing fast enough in response to urgent local adaptation needs.
1 December 2023
State and Trends in Climate Adaptation Finance 2023
This report covers global status and trends of adaptation finance and provides a deeper analysis of Africa at a regional level, given the heightened adaptation needs and opportunities on the continent. Across the globe, and especially in Africa, climate smart and resilient development pathways offer enormous investment opportunities with a triple dividend of avoided losses, positive economic gains, and enhanced social and environmental benefits.
29 November 2023
Factsheet for young people: Urban Development and City Resilience
Climate risk assessments can help decision-makers understand the climate risks associated with current and future urban development, and identify, prioritize, and implement low-cost actions. This factsheet is part of a series that presents information from GCA’s flagship reports State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa 2021 and 2022.
26 October 2023
Accelerating Adaptation Finance – Africa and Global Perspectives
In the context of the Africa Climate Summit, this policy brief highlights the need to dramatically increase the amount and efficacy of adaptation financing to Africa. This brief also spotlights the persistent challenges related to adaptation finance flows in Africa, and highlights priority actions for the global finance community to undertake to address them.
4 September 2023
Strategy and Planning to Redouble Adaptation in Africa: A Review
This study provides a detailed review of the national strategic adaptation documents prepared by governments in the African continent. It examines the main characteristics of these strategic adaptation plans, their depth and coverage, and the degree to which these documents demonstrate a supportive environment to implement the most critical adaptation programs at scale for each country.
4 September 2023
Toolkit for Youth on Adaptation & Leadership
This Toolkit for Youth on Adaptation & Leadership equips young people with the knowledge and skills to engage in climate adaptation policy, advocacy and action.
29 August 2023
Factsheet for young people: Locally Led Adaptation
Over 60 percent of the population are smallholder farmers and over 55 percent of the urban population live in informal settlements in Sub-Saharan African countries. Therefore, LLA holds the promise of unlocking variegated responses to highly localized risks in contexts marked by deficits in formal governance machinery.
5 June 2023