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    land rights
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    January 6, 2023

    Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Man in a canoe in Ecuador's Amazon forest
    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    Insights
    November 29, 2021

    It’s About Time: The Climate Community Invests in Securing Community Land

    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    A large patch of lemongrass in the Chisapani Community Forest
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Podcasts
    May 12, 2021

    Women and Land Rights

    • Gender
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Gender
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    March 25, 2021

    4 Ways Indigenous and Community Lands Help Fight Climate Change

    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    • Climate
    • Forests
    • National Climate Action
    • Paris Agreement
    • deforestation
    • climate change
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Research
    December 17, 2018

    Prepared Communities

    Equity & Governance
    Initiatives
    November 13, 2018

    LandMark

    Indigenous peoples surveying a forested landscape
    Equity & Governance
    Initiatives
    June 27, 2013

    Land and Resource Rights

    A man fishing on a boat in a river surrounded by fields.
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    June 5, 2023

    Indonesia’s Indigenous People Secure Forest and Land Rights

    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    West Papua
    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Food
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Food-Climate Connection Rises on the Global Agenda

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Food Loss and Waste
    People picking vegetables at a farmers' market
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Climate
    Africa
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    South Africa Sets Stronger Emissions-reduction Target

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Solar panels on rooftop of building in Cape Town, South Africa
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Climate
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    COP26 Advances Ambitious Climate Action and Nature-based Solutions

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Scotland, Glasgow, Clydebank, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre aka SECC
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • International Climate Action
    • nature-based solutions
    Finance
    Asia
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    China Commits to Reduce Investment in Overseas Coal Power Projects

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Men working on the embankments of the Nairobi to Mombasa section of the China funded Standard Gauge Railway Project in Kenya
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Cities
    North America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    US Infrastructure Bill Allocates Billions for Clean School Buses, Carbon Removal

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Multi-ethnic group of elementary age children getting on a school bus
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Cities
    Latin America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Brazil Commits to Reduce Traffic Deaths 50% by 2030

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Health & Road Safety
    People and traffic in Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Health & Road Safety
    Forests
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Global Forest Watch Helps Indigenous Peoples Reduce Deforestation

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Aerial view over a tropical forest with a river meandering through the canopy
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Business
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Private Equity Firms, Managing $232 Billion in Assets, Set Science-based Emissions Targets

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    buildings in Montreal, Canada
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Climate
    North America
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    US Government Sets Target to Reduce Emissions 50-52% by 2030

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    cleaning solar panels
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    Forests
    Insights
    January 20, 2022

    6 Ways to Ensure Ecosystem Restoration Prioritizes People

    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Three woman point to a map hung on the side of a building.
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance

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