Governments around the globe commit to support locally led climate adaptation

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The World Resources Institute has reported that a combination of governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs, including the UK and Irish Governments, UN Development Programme, Climate Investment Funds and the Zurich Investment Group, have committed to a new set of principles to ensure climate adaptation is led by local people. The decision to launch the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation was prompted by research from the World Bank, which suggested that ‘climate emergency threatens to push 130 million people into extreme poverty by 2030, yet local people are often left out of decisions and funding’. The Principles for Locally Led Adaptation, which are informed by the voices and priorities of the individuals who are most affected by the impacts of the climate emergency in developing countries, ‘provide a guide on how to change the standard “business as usual” top-down approach for how climate finance is currently directed, to a “business unusual” model,...