The Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) held in January 2021 garnered support for an extremely ambitious set of actions on locally led climate change adaptation. The anchoring event highlighted the importance of locally led adaptation to meet the adaptation challenge equitably, sustainably, and effectively, as called for in the Global Adaptation Commission’s flagship report of 2019. At the Climate Adaptation Summit, UNCDF introduced the LoCAL program and reaffirmed its commitment to scale up adaptation funding to 100 million for direct access to local governments.

Watch the LoCAL anchoring session video to find out more; listen to key stakeholders, Ministers and local governments involved in the program describe what they have been able to achieve with this support – and why it is “business unusual”:

What is LoCAL?
LoCAL brings sustained efforts in the fight against climate change. Watch to discover the challenges faced by people, the benefits of using national systems to channel climate funds and find out how to build capacities where climate impacts people the most, at the local level.

LoCAL is a global climate funding facility that helps communities adapt to climate change by applying a standard made for local governments in developing countries.

LoCAL is a fast growing global programme that brings a solid response climate impacts in developing countries.

Over 20 countries from the Least Developing Countries and Small Islands and Developing Spates are engaged in LoCAL, in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.

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This flagship global programme works with global funds from leading development partners and with domestic resources from participating countries.

We need more support to scale both national and global efforts to build the resilience of the most vulnerable.

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