Climate Funders Should Find Local Adaptation Evidence Themselves, Panel Says
COP 31 Special Events • United NationsNovember 14, 2026
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Practitioners from South African municipalities, Asian cities and climate finance networks used the final Capacity Building Hub session at COP31 on Nov. 14, 2026, to challenge a familiar funder claim: that evidence for locally led adaptation is thin. No votes were taken. The Paris Committee on Capacity Building (PCCB) closed its four-session series with ten insights on lasting local capacity and a pledge that the discussion will feed its reports.
- Panelists rebut the "no evidence" claim and say funders should search for local results themselves
- Ten insights frame capacity as a core, multi-year cost of adaptation, not an add-on
- Capacity must outlast projects: tracer studies and post-exit check-ins proposed
- South Africa's municipal association pitches differentiated support and plan-based funding
- PCCB co-chair names finance access as the main bottleneck for local adaptation
The basics: Locally led adaptation is an approach in which local actors drive responses to climate impacts. The PCCB is the UN climate body focused on building countries' capacity to act under the Paris Agreement.
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