About the Conference
The 17th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA17) takes place on 22-25 May 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand, and registration will open in early March.
For the first time since 2019 CBA will be held in-person, with a focus on networking and reconnecting. It offers participants four days of discussion, debate, peer-to-peer ‘skill-shares’ and knowledge exchange.
The CBA conference series aims to bring together a community of practitioners who are collectively seeking to reimagine solutions that enable transformative outcomes, through the agency of communities driving climate action.
CBA is a space for the adaptation community of practitioners to come together to share how to put the principles for locally led adaptation (LLA) into practice, recognising the complexities, innovations and challenges that must be overcome.
The CBA17 Agenda
The five themes for CBA17 are:
- Nature-based solutions (NbS)
- Climate finance
- Youth driving locally led adaptation
- Innovation
- Decolonising climate action
The conference includes:
- Thematic workshops – question assumptions
- Skill-shares – learn from your peers
- The Dragons’ Den – develop and test a funding pitch
- Marketplace – tools to succeed
- Short films – be inspired
- Open space for 'burning issues and big ideas'
Registration
In order to cover the costs and offer sponsorships to local practitioners from across the world CBA is a ticketed event. Registration will open in early March. Sign up to receive updates.
Subsidised places
CBA17 is pleased to be able to offer a number of subsidised tickets and travel sponsorship for participants from the global South with limited resources who can bring their ‘lived experience’ of vulnerability and resilience and their experiences of working with communities to our discussions. Their voices are often missed in international policy platforms.
For more information, sign up for updates and stay tuned to announcements when CBA17 launches applications.
Supporting sponsorships
As well as subsided tickets, CBA17 is also seeking support from interested organisations to be able to offer full sponsorships to students, representatives of community-based organisations or small NGOs based and working in the global South, with a focus on women and young people.
If your organisation would like to support this aim, please get in touch with Teresa Sarroca at IIED via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Contact and updates
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Cover image by Steven Wilcox
