Communities adapting to climate change – experiences from CBA9

The Ninth International Conference on Community-based Adaptation - otherwise known as CBA9 - has come and gone, thankfully before the worst of the flooding experienced last week in Nairobi, where this year's event was held. If the theme of CBA9 was 'Measuring and enhancing effective adaptation', then one of the main sub-themes was money. Or rather, …

Climate change: cash flows from Kathmandu? CBA8 on financing for local adaptation

CBA8 - the 8th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation - has been and gone in Kathmandu. Concluding on 30th April 2014, it was a packed week of field visits and conference sessions involving over 400 participants that culminated in the Kathmandu Declaration on Financing Local Adaptation. As Saleemul Huq of IIED and ICCAD noted when he …