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Adapting to a Changing Environment

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Adapting to a Changing Environment: How are communities around the world adapting to their changing environments? 
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Adapting to a Changing Environment surfaced locally-driven, nature-based solutions that are helping communities adapt to the impacts of climate change. This contest drew 88 submissions from 37 countries, many of which included powerful ideas and detailed accounts of how community-implemented adaptation strategies and succeeding in protecting biodiversity and enhancing livelihoods while also confronting the effects of a changing climate. 

The contest looked for adaptation strategies that:

  • Use biodiversity and ecosystem services of forest, wetland, or coastal, margin systems as part of an overall adaptation strategy to help people and communities adapt to the negative effects of climage change. 
  • Decrease the dependence on the consumptive use of resources and/or improve the ability of the community to cope with loss or changes in vulnerable resources. 

Top 10 Finalists

EcoLogic Development Fund
Village Development Committee of ANDO-KPOMEY
SOIL
ENDEV-Society for Environment & Development
African Christians Organization Network
Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation (CBACC-CF) Project
The Foundation of the People of the South Pacific International
The Salto de Agua Farming Group with the support of CONANP, the National Commission of Natural...
Academy of Gandhian Studies
Sociedad de Historia Natural Niparajá A.C.

Judges

Spencer Thomas
Ambassador & Special Envoy for Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Grenada

Prizes

Grand Prize
$20,000
Awarded to the Judges’ Choice (selected by our panel) and People’s Choice (recipient of most votes).
Runners Up
$5,000
Awarded to the first and second runner up in the People’s Choice competition.
East Africa Prize
$10,000
Awarded to the best solution from East African nations
India Prize
$10,000
Awarded to the best solution from India
Island Bright Spot Award
Trip to SIDS conference
Hosted in partnership with the Global Islands Partnership, this award will be given to the best solution coming out of a small-island developing state

View Entrants

Organization: Musambwa Islands Joint Conservation Organisation (MIJCO)
Country: Uganda
Organization: Network of Sustainable Livelihoods Catalysts, Inc
Country: Philippines
Organization: Himalayan Nature
Country: Nepal
Organization: ECO FUEL AFRICA LIMITED (EFA)
Country: Uganda
Organization: Nema Foundation, Guludo beach lodge
Country: Mozambique
Organization: California State Coastal Conservancy
Country: United States
Organization: Santiri Foundation
Country: Indonesia
Organization: Meteorological Centre of Villa Clara
Country: Cuba
Organization: Asociacin Ambiente Sur
Country: Argentina
Organization: Ministry of Environment and Forests, Coastal and Marine Pollution Management
Country: Madagascar
Organization: iDE
Country: United States
Organization: Carbon Roots International
Country: United States
Organization: City of Punta Gorda
Country: United States
Organization: CRADES (Comitï de Rïflexion et d?Actions pour le Dïveloppement et Environnement de la Sambirano)
Country: Madagascar
Organization: Cabildo de Tenerife
Country: Spain
Organization: TRY ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN COCKLE AND OYSTER HARVESTERS
Country: Gambia

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Contest Requirements

Important Dates

  • May 15, 2013 Application period opens
  • July 19, 2013, 11:59:59 p.m. EDT Applications must be submitted.
  • September 10, 2013 Finalists announced and online voting begins.
  • October 4, 2013 Voting concludes
  • October 2013 Winner announced!

Criteria

All entries will be submitted through the Solution Search website. Entries will then go through a three-tiered judging process and finalists will be announced for the public to vote for the winner. First, a panel from within the Rare and The Nature Conservancy’s staff will narrow the total pool of entries to 30. Next, a select group of expert judges will select 10 finalists and one of the grand prize winners. Then the public selects the second grand prize winner and two runner-ups. All applicants will be ranked throughout the process in the following criteria. 

  • Innovation
  • Biodiversity impact
  • Impact on human wellbeing and livelihoods
  • Replicability
  • Sustainability and resilience
  • Governance

Please keep these criteria in mind when completing the entry form.

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