The 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA19) will take place from 12-16 May 2025 in Recife, Brazil.
CBA is a space for the adaptation community to share learning on community-based and locally led adaptation systems, and to explore how to put the principles for locally led adaptation (LLA) into practice, recognising the complexities, innovations and challenges that must be overcome.
CBA19 will ask the overarching question: how can we achieve just and equitable adaptation?
Nested under this question conference sessions will focus on three themes:
- LLA in action (how to move from principles to practice, at scale, highlighting best practice and emerging innovations and challenges)
- Urban adaptation (achieving just and equitable adaptation that meets the needs of all urban dwellers, including issues around informality, infrastructure and health), and
- Nature/adaptation (highlighting the interconnections between nature and climate and the importance of local and Indigenous knowledge and practices in achieving just and equitable adaptation).
Shark Tank at CBA
As in previous, GRP is will be attending CBA and leading this year’s Shark Tank (previously called the Dragons’ Den). During these sessions, participants develop pitches for investment in policy or business and present them to a group of experts with relevant investment experience (the ‘sharks’).
Participants do not need to have prior pitching or business experience – they will have an opportunity to work individually or in a group throughout the CBA week to develop bids for investment. The ‘Sharks’ will support participants with practical planning tools and mentoring.
If you are attending CBA, don’t miss out on the Shark Tank programme.
