GCA My Adaptation Solution Video Competition 2025 (Deadline: 9 August, 2025)

Applications are open for the GCA My Adaptation Solution Video Competition 2025. 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.

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.

Benefits

• The winning video entry(ies) will be highlighted via Global Center on Adaptation (“GCA”) social media profiles (i.e. LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Instagram). Winning entrants will be featured on GCA’s website, showcased in interviews and blogs, and spotlighted during GCA’s virtual event at COP30

Eligibility

• Applicants should be between 18-35 years old and leading the fight against climate change. 
• Have developed an innovative and creative adaptation solution.

Video Guidelines

• Video entries should not include images of people under 18 years, unless parent or guardian consent has been obtained;
• Video entries should be a maximum of 60 seconds in duration;
• Video entries should be submitted in MP4 format;
• Videos should be filmed vertically; and
• Applicants should include the following information in their video: Name; Country; Climate change impacts; Adaptation solution; and the concluding sentence: “The heat is on, and we’re the adaptation solutions.”

Deadline: August 9, 2025

Application

For more information, visit GCA My Adaptation Solution Video Competition.