Applications are now open for the 2025 GCA “My Adaptation Solution Video Competition”. The Youth Climate Adaptation Action Day, organized by the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) on the 12th of October, is the largest-running annual youth adaptation event taking place in over 100 countries around the world.
This competition spotlights solutions that break the heat cycle, safeguard water resources, and buffer communities against both drought and deluge. Your idea could reshape how we live, farm, and build in an increasingly hot world.
Requirements
- Are you between 18-35 years old and leading the fight against climate change?
- Have you developed an innovative and creative adaptation solution?
Selection Criteria
Winners will be selected through public voting via an online form. Results will be announced in early September.
Submission Requirements
The thermometer is climbing, and so must our creativity. Share your heat-beating, NDC-aligned adaptation solution—submit your one-minute video today and help cool, protect, and sustain our planet’s future!
The theme of video entries is: The heat is on — youth powering adaptation solutions through Nature-based Solutions, Water, Education & Advocacy, and Climate-Resilient Agriculture.