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We are an international organization working as the solutions broker for #ClimateAdaptation 🌍 #AdaptOurWorld
Joined June 2017
#ClimateAdaptation means taking action to prepare for the effects of #climatechange. This includes: 🚨 Early warning systems #EWS 🛣️ Climate-resilient infrastructure 🌾 Dryland crop production 🌳 Mangrove protection 💧 Water resource resilience 🔗 https://t.co/sEiJU0raWQ
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🚨 What happens when humanitarian agencies hand over power to local responders? Faster action, smarter solutions, #DiasasterResilience, and communities leading their own recovery. Read this chapter in the 2025 Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice.
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🚨 Actress Diane Keaton’s Cause of Death Revealed Read more
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The #Youth4Adaptation End of Year Event will bring together young changemakers to reflect on their progress, share key insights, and look ahead to 2026. 🌍 Join us! 📆 12th December 2025 🕒 15:00 - 16:00 CET 📍Online 🔗 Register: https://t.co/rvavvSquXA
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📣 Apply before 8th December! GCA CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2026 🔗 Apply now: https://t.co/vYNMs8aDXA More information on our website: https://t.co/eUrWS1T9LP
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🌾Smallholder farmers are innovating their way through climate extremes, reviving soils, boosting yields, and feeding millions. Their resilience is the world's #FoodSecurity. Read this chapter in the 2025 Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice.
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The city was broke—but not broken. Drop Dead City, the 2025 documentary about NYC’s 1975 fiscal crisis, is out now. Don’t miss this smart, gripping and unexpectedly poignant story of urban survival, now streaming on all major platforms!
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🚨 Applications Open: GCA CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2026 GCA is inviting young leaders from around the world to join the CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel. Members will provide advice on GCA’s youth engagement efforts and supports the mission of GCA’s Youth Leadership Program.
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COP30 didn’t just talk adaptation - Global leaders agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while communities and young people showed what real resilience means on the ground. Momentum is building. Communities are leading. The Heat Is On 👉 https://t.co/SxFj3mbwg5
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Last month, GCA – represented by Senior Urban Resilience Specialist Agathe Nougaret – went on a mission in the Republic of Congo under the Congo Basin project. In partnership with @Global_OCA and @JBAConsulting, the aim was to promote nature-based solutions (NbS) and
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While most SIDS experience water stress due to low supplies, others have enough supply but lack the infrastructure or capacity to manage it. These challenges are exacerbated by climate change-related impacts. This blog draws on STA25 chapter “Water” by Farah Nibbs ( @UofMaryland
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Over 20 million scam and spam calls intercepted since July by our AI Call Guard. Here's how it works: unknown suspicious callers route to our AI agent first. It has a live conversation, asks who's calling and why, then - trained on scam scripts - disconnects with the scammer or
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Voting closes today for the My Climate Adaptation Solution Video Competition 2025! Support inspiring youth-led solutions tackling the climate crisis 🌍🔥 🌡️ The thermometer is climbing, and so must our desire to vote for the best video! 🎥 Vote for the videos that best
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We want to hear your stories so the impacts of heat are impossible to ignore. Tell us: How is extreme heat impacting your life, work, or health?Share a 30–60 sec video or short story with #TheHeatIsOn Your voice can make adaptation centre stage at COP30 https://t.co/FHksTSe6J2
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GCA welcomes Ms @nardosbthomas, Chief Executive Officer of @NEPAD_Agency, to our Supervisory Board placing African priorities even more firmly at the heart of global adaptation decision-making. Her leadership will help ensure Africa’s institutions, leaders, and communities drive
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GCA has launched technical assistance to embed climate adaptation into the African Development Bank Group's @AfDB_Group Eastern Region Agricultural Value Chain Development Project in Angola. 🌽 The AfDB’s US$ 211.4 million investment seeks to improve food and nutrition
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The Resilient Economies Index's findings reveal how well current policy frameworks are prepared to drive adaptation action on a continent facing some of the world’s most acute climate risks. The result is a clearer picture of where African countries are today— and where stronger
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We’ve already passed 1.5°C - the “safe limit” scientists set to avoid the most dangerous heat, crop loss, and health impacts. Crossing it means adaptation can’t wait. Communities are living the consequences of climate change now. Time to adapt. 👉 https://t.co/FHksTSe6J2
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In SIDS, the transport sector absorbs the largest share of infrastructure damage from extreme weather events. These damages interrupt economic activity and prevent access to essential goods and services. This blog draws on STA25 chapter “Transport” by Sean Michaels and Maria
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GCA Statement on #COP30 📣 COP30 delivered important momentum for global adaptation efforts. Tripling adaptation finance and advancing the global goal on adaptation signal a rising commitment to resilience at a moment when the world needs it most. The Action Agenda’s recognition
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This month, GCA joined a @WorldBank appraisal mission in Chad for the #RESILAND project, working with @BiovIntCIAT_eng to assess how climate adaptation solutions, especially Digital Climate Advisory Services and livestock-focused interventions, can strengthen key value chains.
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đź’ˇ Real resilience happens when climate finance flows directly through local communities. See how Uganda, Malawi, and The Gambia are rewriting the rules of #ClimateAdaptation. Read this chapter in the 2025 Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice.
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Heatwaves will become hotter, longer and more frequent the later net zero emissions is reached globally 🔥 By investing in early warning systems, heat-resilient infrastructure, urban cooling and climate-smart agriculture, we protect development and build real resilience where
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Five years ago, a simple Call to Action sparked a Youth Adaptation movement. #youth4adaptation With this publication, we celebrate the impact of that commitment: 🌍 35,000 members of the Youth Adaptation Network🎤 35 Youth Adaptation Forums engaging 150+ countries 🙌 4 CEO
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