Investing in climate adaptation does far more than safeguard homes and habitats. It unlocks economic opportunity by boosting productivity, lowering the costs of disaster response and recovery, creating new markets in resilient infrastructure and green technologies, and stabilizing growth so that communities can attract investment and prosper over the long term. In other words, adaptation is the path to resilient economies: the stronger our defenses against climate shocks, the more we accelerate progress towards sustainable development, shared prosperity and a safer planet for all.

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) exists to drive that transformation. As the only international organization for climate resilience, GCA partners with governments, businesses and communities at every scale—local, national and continental—to identify high-impact adaptation solutions and integrate the most promising approaches into projects that climate-proof critical sectors while supporting sustainable livelihoods. Our mission is to shield the planet from the worst impacts of warming; our vision is a world in which every community thrives, secure in the knowledge that adaptation today builds prosperity for tomorrow.