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Adaptation is no longer optional — it’s essential.   Climate impacts are intensifying, threatening decades of progress in poverty reduction and development. The need to invest at scale in adaptation and resilience has never been more urgent.   We’re proud to have contributed to this new report by ClimateWorks Foundation which shows how philanthropy is responding — where funding is flowing, where critical gaps remain, and how funders can help catalyze far greater investment in resilience.   Momentum is growing — and so are the opportunities for impact.   📖 Explore the report: https://lnkd.in/eZqbmYWz

Keep an eye on our partners PELUM Zimbabwe's LinkedIn during #COP30 for more insights into how agroecological approaches can help build #climateresilience...

With #COP30 kicking off this week, we know many of our incredible partners have been working hard preparing for this critical moment to put adaptation on the agenda. We’re looking forward to seeing their efforts come to life.    As this piece from Forbes says, “Adaptation isn’t surrender – it’s strategy. Even more, it’s tantamount to survival.”   This long-read is a great pre-COP read to understand more about extreme heat and how its affecting people and communities right now. https://lnkd.in/eBwiYnj2

It all starts with a nomination ✅ When Howden team member Samantha Hicks-Smith put forward Alzheimer’s Research UK for a Howden Foundation Charity Award, it wasn’t just a vote – it was an opportunity to make an impact for a cause close to her heart. Through our People First Fund, Howden colleagues can champion charities that matter deeply to them and support their communities. In this case, it’s helping scientists like Dr Francesco Aprile push forward breakthroughs in the search for a cure for dementia 🔬 This is the power of the Howden Foundation Charity Awards, enabling Howden’s people to make an even greater impact for the causes they care about. From the laboratory to local communities, this is what happens when we come together with purpose. #Howden #HowdenFoundation #Alzheimers

Great to see PELUM Zimbabwe bringing together local communities around Holistic Land and Livestock Management. Helping improve the resilience of local landscapes is critical to sustaining communities in the face of land degradation and climate change 👇

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, according to the 2025 edition of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.   And financial losses are significant as a result of climate change 👉 exposure to high temperatures resulted in 639billion hours of lost labour in 2024, a loss of 6% of national GDP in the least developed nations.   We’re working with partners in regions at the biggest risk of extreme heat and drought to help these communities adapt to the impacts of climate change.   ✅ SEEDS is helping New Delhi’s most vulnerable to implement sustainable, nature-based solutions to bring down temperatures in homes ✅ Start Network is providing emergency funding, humanitarian aid and disaster readiness programs to train communities on how to respond to extreme heat events ✅ Climate Resilience for All is providing extreme heat insurance and cash payouts to women in India working with no formal contracts, paid leave or health benefits Read more at: https://lnkd.in/efY5jwUY

🚨 Climate change is already here. Right now, extreme heat costs half a million lives each year, and 40% of the world’s population is currently facing water scarcity.    In its 8th letter, the COP30 Brazil Presidency recognises the importance of adaptation, recognising that climate is a "multiplier of poverty" and calling for a move from negotiation to demonstration.    Here's hoping that Belém's legacy includes putting adaptation onto the main agenda for global climate action. 💚

“Most journalistic coverage on Adaptation remains confined to crises and disasters. Faced with the growing frequency of extreme events, its time to move beyond emergency mode”.   It’s live ❗   Climate Adaptation Guide for Journalists and Newsrooms, developed by our partners Instituto Talanoa is now available for download. It’s essential reading if you’re a journalist, media professional or communicator covering #COP30   Here’s 4 steps to reposition the agenda, taken from the guide itself 👇   ✅ Reverse the panorama: Showcase the solutions and prevention, not only the absence or failure that follows extreme weather events. Highlight the cost of inaction.  ✅ Put people first: Anchor reporting in everyday life and solutions that emerge from local communities.  ✅ Ask tough questions, go beyond the basics: Demand concrete answers. Scrutinise numbers, policies, plans, and budgets. ✅ Make Adaptation an editorial priority: Adaptation can and should be an editorial commitment. You can read the full guide here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e_Nuftgi

‘Resilience is not just something we bring in from the outside. It already lives within the people we work with. Our job is to recognise it, nurture it, and help it grow.’ - SEEDS   This excellent read from Tanya Kak for Alliance magazine, featuring our partners SEEDS talks about the experiences of communities on the ground during extreme heat and the importance of heat being understood as a systemic risk and not just a one-off event.    What you need to know:    🌡️ Heat is treated as an event but lived as a daily condition – Heat isn’t a one-off event or weather forecast with a start and end date, it involves daily survival strategies.  🔥️ Heat doesn’t affect everyone equally – Gender, income and informality inequity is compounded by heat.  ☀️️ The policy-practice gap is wide and growing – Government and state action doesn’t focus enough on reducing systemic risks or the small adaptations that workers have to make to get through the day.  🏘️ Communities already hold the seeds of resilience - “When communities are engaged early and see tangible benefits they become stewards [of adaptation], not just recipients”.    Read the full piece at: https://lnkd.in/eCDS-Jjx

This is an excellent opportunity for journalists or media professionals looking ahead to #COP30 to learn more about climate adaptation and what to expect with our partners, Instituto Talanoa. We'll see you there!