Resourcing Grassroots-led Climate Adaptation
A thematic brief for funders
The last three years have been the hottest on record: scaling back emissions is required for a liveable future. In addition, communities need to have the resources to implement solutions for adjusting to a treacherous and uncertain future.
When communities do not have the ability to adapt, impacts – and thus displacement, violence, and cultural erasure – are amplified.
Community-led adaptation works because solutions are:
- relevant and responsive to a place (as impacts will be inherently place-based),
- durable because they are created and owned by the community whose livelihoods depend on them,
- innovative because they are not ‘one size fits all’, and
- just because they build power among those most impacted by the climate crisis.
In this brief, we outline how community self-determination can best support adaptation to the climate crisis.
