IIED presents the 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation – September 21-25, 2020

The International Institute for Environmental Development (IIED) and its partners have organised a series of international conferences on community-based adaptation (CBA) to enable practitioners, governments and donors to share latest developments and best practice.

The CBA14 themes will focus on:

• Climate finance: how can public and private sector finance be accountability and transparently mobilized to scale up climate action, while remaining inclusive?
• Adaptation technology: how can adaptation technology be used to bring about adaptation at national level, and be integrated through policy and finance?
• Responsive policy: how can social movements inform policy that is ambitious enough to meet the Paris Agreement targets and improve climate adaptation for communities?
• Nature-based solutions: how can nature-based solutions be made to work for people, nature and climate?
• Youth: how can we transform our institutions so that they can take advantage of young people’s participation in delivering local-level adaptation?

All sessions will aim to address at least one of these questions as well as incorporate the cross-cutting tracks of gender and monitoring, evaluation and learning.

The 2020 conference will this year take place online from 21-25 September, allowing our community of practice to continue to meet despite the COVID-19 outbreak. Ahead of the conference, IIED and partners hosted an online event on 21 July to ignite discussion, and showcase CBA’s themes and interactive, participatory approach to online events.

Go here to sign up to get updates from the CBA team.