The 3rd Annual Gobeshona Global Conference on research into Action, organised by the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, will be held from 10 to 16 March 2023. The conference will be held virtually with many national, international participants and high-profile guests from around the world, with an aim to support and leverage the enormous potential and creativity of local communities to develop and implement solutions.

Challenges and opportunities for promoting locally led adaptation: cross learning from Nepal, Fiji, Vietnam

• 13 March 2023, 10:00-12:00 (Bangladesh Standard Time); UTC+6
• Registration details: https://whova.com/portal/registration/gobes_202303/
• Conference information: https://conference.gobeshona.net/

We welcome you to join our session as part of the Third Global Gobeshona Conference (GGC3), which is a continuation of the GGC1 session “Capacity Building for Promoting “Local Adaptation Innovation” through regional collaboration on 22nd January 2021 and the GGC2 session on “Localization of NDCs through community-led ‘adaptation innovation’ in the Asia-Pacific: Needs and Pathways” in March 2022.

The upcoming GGC3 session aims to introduce the challenges and opportunities for promoting locally led adaptation from three regionally distinct areas: Nepal, Fiji, and Vietnam as a part of a new initiative between APN and IGES on locally led adaption. The initiative aims to understand and establish a foundation for applying the principles of locally led adaptation. This initiative will contribute the capacity development programme of the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform (AP-PLAT), an initiative of the Japanese Government to support adaptation action in the Asia-Pacific region.

In this session, the presentation and discussion will focus on key challenges for understanding local climate risk, opportunities for promoting traditional, indigenous and local knowledge systems as a basis for locally led adaption, and necessary governance arrangements to institutionalize and integrate locally led adaptation into climate risk planning.