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indigenous people
Governance
Insights
March 25, 2021

4 Ways Indigenous and Community Lands Can Reduce Emissions

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • paris agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • paris agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
Governance
Latin America
News
October 7, 2020

RELEASE: New Study Reveals Mining in the Amazon Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands

  • Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • governance
  • indigenous people
  • Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • governance
  • indigenous people
Governance
Latin America
News
October 7, 2020

COMUNICADO: Nuevo estudio revela que la minería en el Amazonas amenaza al 20 % de las tierras indígenas

  • Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • governance
  • indigenous people
  • Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • governance
  • indigenous people
Governance
Insights
October 7, 2020

La Minería Legal e Ilegal Amenazan el 20% de las Tierras Indígenas en la Amazonía

  • governance
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Peru farmer
  • governance
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Governance
Insights
October 7, 2020

Mining Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands in the Amazon

  • governance
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Brazil nut producer, Peru
  • governance
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Governance
Latin America
News
September 30, 2020

ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call: Mining Threatens Indigenous Communities Across the Amazon

  • Governance
  • deforestation
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • pollution
  • Governance
  • deforestation
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • pollution
Governance
Latin America
Insights
September 8, 2020

COVID-19, Rising Gold Prices and Illegal Mining Threaten Indigenous Lands in the Amazon

  • coronavirus
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Mining for gold in South America
  • coronavirus
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
Governance
Insights
March 3, 2020

Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women

  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
woman-planting-cabbage
  • Sustainable Development Goal 1
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
Governance
Insights
February 10, 2020

5 Strategies that Achieve Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Simultaneously

  • Climate
  • adaptation
  • agroforestry
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • indigenous people
  • renewables
  • transportation
  • wetlands
Reroroja village
  • Climate
  • adaptation
  • agroforestry
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gases
  • indigenous people
  • renewables
  • transportation
  • wetlands
Forests
Insights
January 10, 2020

10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • indigenous people
  • REDD
  • restoration
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • biodiversity
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • indigenous people
  • REDD
  • restoration
Governance
Latin America North America
Insights
December 20, 2019

Ensuring a "Just Transition": 5 Priorities to Make Climate Action Benefit Low-Income and Disadvantaged Groups

  • Climate
  • COP25
  • paris agreement
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • equity
  • Gender
  • indigenous people
  • poverty
A youth group marching in Paris, with a banner that says "climate justice = social justice." Photo by Andreas Link/Young FoEE
  • Climate
  • COP25
  • paris agreement
  • climate policy
  • Climate Equity
  • equity
  • Gender
  • indigenous people
  • poverty
Governance
Asia Latin America
Insights
September 16, 2019

For Rural Communities, Protecting Land Is a Better Investment than Deforestation

  • Food
  • Forests
  • land use
  • India
  • indigenous people
  • Indonesia
  • south america
  • sustainable agriculture
In India's Narmada District, legal recognition of communities' land rights have enabled villages to invest in sustainable, more productive land management. Photo by...
  • Food
  • Forests
  • land use
  • India
  • indigenous people
  • Indonesia
  • south america
  • sustainable agriculture
Governance
Insights
August 8, 2019

The IPCC Calls for Securing Community Land Rights to Fight Climate Change

  • Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • IPCC
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • restoration
Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
  • Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • IPCC
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • restoration
Governance
Insights
June 18, 2019

Local Communities Aren’t Just Climate Victims. They’re Climate Adaptation Leaders

  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • indigenous people
  • local impacts
Community farming in Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • indigenous people
  • local impacts
Insights
May 7, 2019

PODCAST: Why Securing Land Rights for Indigenous People Can Accelerate Sustainable Development

  • podcasts
  • Sustainable Development Goal 10
  • Asia
  • Africa
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • south america
  • sustainable development goals
Small forestry in the Peruvian Amazon.
  • podcasts
  • Sustainable Development Goal 10
  • Asia
  • Africa
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • south america
  • sustainable development goals
Africa
Africa
Insights
May 1, 2019

Goldman Prize Winner Alfred Brownell Stopped Palm Oil Companies from Destroying Liberian Forests

  • Environmental Rights
  • Governance
  • Forests
  • Africa
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • sustainable development
Alfred Brownell on a street in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Environmental Rights
  • Governance
  • Forests
  • Africa
  • environmental justice
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • sustainable development
Governance
Insights
January 24, 2019

Land Matters: How Securing Community Land Rights Can Slow Climate Change and Accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Environmental Rights
  • sustainable development goals
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • natural resources
  • resource rights
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Sustainable Development Goal 9
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • Sustainable Development Goal 14
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Sustainable Development Goal 11
indigenous-people-forest
  • Environmental Rights
  • sustainable development goals
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • natural resources
  • resource rights
  • Sustainable Development Goal 2
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Sustainable Development Goal 9
  • Sustainable Development Goal 13
  • Sustainable Development Goal 14
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Sustainable Development Goal 11
Governance
Insights
January 23, 2019

Peru’s Indigenous Communities Manage Their Forests. Others Should Follow Their Lead

  • Governance
  • Forests
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
Harvesting sago along the Tuba River in Maluku province, Indonesia
  • Governance
  • Forests
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure

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