Categories: Programme development, News, Climate finance, Locally led adaptation
BASE awards 8 locally led climate solutions with the potential to unlock climate finance
The awarded projects show promise for solution to refining climate rationale while contributing to effective climate action at the grassroots level.
Categories: Funding for adaptation, News, ARA activities, Locally led adaptation
ARA Statement of Intent with Fundación Avina
The ARA is partnering with the Building Approaches to fund local Solutions with climate Evidence (BASE) initiative, an initiative driven by ARA member Fundación Avina.
Categories: Bridging research & action, Funding for adaptation, News, Capacity building, Climate finance
ARA joins Belmont Forum as partner organisation
The partnership broadens Alliance engagement with those seeking to co-develop, fund, and deliver societally relevant solutions to climate change.
Categories: Bridging research & action, Funding for adaptation, Collaboration, Policy & influence, News, Capacity building, Climate action, Climate finance
ARA at COP27: Micro-grants, Co-creation activities & partnerships
The Adaptation Research Alliance celebrated its one-year anniversary at COP27 with several events underscoring its work to bridge adaptation research and action.
Categories: Programme development, Collaboration, News, Press release, Capacity building, Climate action, Climate finance
ARA launches co-creation activities for adaptation programme development
The announcement demonstrates how the ARA is delivering on promises made to catalyse investment and opportunities for adaptation action research during its launch at COP26 in Glasgow.
Categories: Bridging research & action, Policy & influence, News, Climate action, Policy
ARA looking forward to COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh
The ARA is pleased to join its members and partners in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP27). The summit runs from 6 Nov – 18 Nov 2022. Below, we present a developing...
Categories: Bridging research & action, News, Climate action, Locally led adaptation
Why we must bridge action and research for adaptation
Research is central to effective adaptation to the emerging impacts of climate change. How we undertake that research determines how relevant and timely new evidence is and – ultimately – how effective our adaptation responses will be.
Categories: Learning & implementation, News, Capacity building, Climate risk, Co-production, Resilience
Catalysing peer-to-peer learning for better understanding climate risks
In a consultative process that drew on the experiences and expertise of its membership, the ARA has revealed guiding principles for learning communities on understanding climate risks.
Categories: Policy & influence, News, Gender, Measurement and indicators
Just 20% of climate change studies ‘written by women’
Researchers from the Global South still struggle to be on par with their counterparts in the North in terms of funding, collaboration, and publishing — with negative impacts on global development.
Categories: Funding for adaptation, News, Africa, Climate finance, Locally led adaptation
Africa’s adaptation potential limited by inequitable research funding
Less than 4% of global climate change research funding is spent in Africa. Of the estimated USD 1.26 billion in funding earmarked for Africa-related research on climate impacts, mitigation and adaptation, less than 15% goes to local research institutions.