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A cidade é de todos nós

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Brazil
Costa Rica

Apresentação de Evaniza Rodrigues, Brasil, para a Reunião de Especialistas sobre Governança do Solo e Segurança de Posse na América Latina e Caribe, realizada em San José, Costa Rica, em Julho 2016. Função social da propriedade urbana: a cidade não é um negócio, a cidade é de todos nós.

Solid Ground – a global advocacy campaign of Habitat for Humanity

Manuals & Guidelines
July, 2016
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Paraguay
Peru

Presentation by Anne Myers, Habitat for Humanity International, during the Experts Group Meeting on Responsible Land Governance and Security of Tenure in Latin America and Caribbean. Title of presentation: Solid Ground - a global advocacy campaign of Habitat for Humanity

Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

Reports & Research
July, 2014
Global

With deforestation and other land uses accounting for 11 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the international community agrees on the need to address deforestation as an important component of climate change. Community forests represent a vital opportunity to curbing climate change that has been undervalued. Today communities have legal or official rights to at least 513 million hectares of forests, only about one eighth of the world’s total, comprising 37.7 billion tonnes of carbon.

Toward a Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Global

The study’s findings offer the most compelling quantitative evidence to date of the unparalleled role that forest peoples have to play in climate change mitigation, reinforcing the critical importance of collective tenure security for the sustainable use and protection of the world’s tropical forests and the carbon they sequester.