The CBA conference is a space for the adaptation community to share lessons on community-based and locally led adaptation approaches, 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.
CBA conferences are a space for learning and sharing experiences. With a focus on acquiring new skills and connecting with peers, the conference offers participants four days of discussion, debate, peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange, through an innovative, dynamic and interactive space. This enables participants to make connections and develop strategies to promote locally-led climate action in their context.
The CBA20 agenda
CBA20 has three core themes, which will guide the plenaries and parallel sessions, as well as other initiatives running in parallel to the main conference (including the Shark Tank, accountability roundtables and project/community visits). The core themes are:
- Achieving just and equitable adaptation in urban areas, with a particular focus on building the climate resilience of informal settlement communities
- Scaling local level health investments as a critical adaptation response in the context of rising temperatures and escalating threats, and
- Knowledge nexus – combining local, traditional and Indigenous Peoples knowledge systems with climate science to drive adaptation decision-making.
Finance, gender, decolonisation and equity will cut across all conference sessions.
Two of the days of the conference will feature parallel sessions under each theme. This will be followed by a day of community and project visits in the Metro Manila area, enabling participants to learn about locally led adaptation initiatives and share their knowledge. The final day will bring everything together in cross-cutting sessions and reflection on CBA over the past 20 years.
Thematic sessions
Parallel sessions at CBA20 will run for 90 minutes and will consist of three types:
- Lessons: sessions designed to share lessons (from successes and failures) in the operationalisation of locally-led climate action related to the conference themes (up to five speakers per session)
- Innovations: sessions designed to engage with new or innovative applications of locally-led approaches to climate action across different contexts related to the conference themes (up to five speakers per session), and
- Discussions: curated sessions bringing together people with different perspectives on critical issues related to the conference themes to discuss and debate with high levels of interaction between panellists and with participants (up to five panellists per session).
