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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

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

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

  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Women of Peru's Awajun Native Community of Shampuyacu
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • climate science
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • restoration
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Land Ruling Threatens Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples and Climate Commitments

  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
view of Chapada Diamantina in Brazil
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

By the Numbers: Indigenous and Community Land Rights

  • Climate Resilience
  • International Climate Action
  • deforestation
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Aerial view of Amazon rainforest near Manau
  • Climate Resilience
  • International Climate Action
  • deforestation
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Using Open Government for Climate Action

  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • environmental democracy
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
  • public participation
  • UNFCCC
Meeting on climate change in Burkina Faso
  • Climate
  • National Climate Action
  • environmental democracy
  • climate change
  • human rights
  • international climate policy
  • public participation
  • UNFCCC

Protecting Indigenous Land Rights Makes Good Economic Sense

  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
River in Colombia
  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
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オバマ大統領の2025年GHG削減目標—野心的しかし達成は可能

  • forest monitoring
  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
写真撮影: Mingia Zhou/Flickr.
  • forest monitoring
  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change

Why Community Forest Rights Should Be Part of National Climate Change Policies

  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • international climate policy
  • land rights
  • UNFCCC
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is 11 times lower in community forests with strong legal recognition than in other parts of the region. Photo by Kate Evans/Center for International Forestry Research
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
  • Forests
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • international climate policy
  • land rights
  • UNFCCC

Nicaragua’s Indigenous Peoples Protect their Forests Even Without Government Support

  • Forests
  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
Nicaragua's government recognizes 49 percent of the country's forests as community forests--but it wasn't always this way. Photo credit: Lon&Queta, Flickr
  • Forests
  • Equity & Governance
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights

Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Target for 2025 is Ambitious—But Achievable

  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
Emissions pollution in Fuyuan, Yunnan, China. Photo Credit: FLICKR/Mingia Zhou
  • environmental democracy
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
Videos

Video: A Farmer In Africa: Balancing Property Rights With National Needs

  • Food
  • Equity & Governance
  • land rights
  • Food
  • Equity & Governance
  • land rights

Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Insights

Forest Loss and Climate: Empowering Communities Can Help

  • Forests
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • land rights
Legal rights for community forests in the Brazilian Amazon and other areas could prevent 27 million hectares (66 million acres) of deforestation by 2050. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
  • Forests
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • land rights

What Does Environmental Democracy Look Like?

  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
Eight years ago, developers proposed a five-dam project on the Baker and Pascua Rivers in Patagonia, Chile. While they projected that the hydropower would produce 2,750 megawatts of power, the project would also flood 23 square miles of wilderness, jeopardizing the environment, local culture, and tourism of the region. Photo Credit: International Rivers/Flickr
  • Energy
  • Equity & Governance
  • Climate
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • renewable energy
Initiatives

Climate Equity

Single solar panel in Africa sand