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Recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Land Rights to Limit Deforestation Is Cost-Effective Approach to Fight Poverty, Climate Change

Reports & Research
Global
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
NEW YORK (17 September, 2014)—US$1.64 billion, the funds pledged to date by three major multi-lateral initiatives at the United Nations and World Bank in preparing for the evolving REDD+ carbon market, would expand the demarcation, registration, and titling of rights of the local communities and Indigenous Peoples living on 450 million hectares, an area almost half the size of Europe, according to new research released by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education).
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Common Ground: Securing Land rights and safeguarding the earth

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Global
community land rights
land rights activists
Indigenous Peoples
community forestry
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining five billion hectares remain unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations.
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Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change

Reports & Research
July, 2014
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
environment
climate change
community forestry
deforestation
forest land
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
natural resources management
land rights
community land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
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.
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Toward a Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands

An Updated Analysis Of Indigenous Peoples' and Local Communities' Contributions to Climate Change Mitigation

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
forest conservation
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
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.
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Securing Community Land Rights: Priorities and Opportunities to Advance Climate And Sustainable Development Goals

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2017
Global, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
climate change
community land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
land conflicts
land registration
Legally recognized and secure land and resource rights are fundamental to the advancement of global peace, prosperity, and sustainability. From the development of human cultures to the realization of democracy itself, tenure security underpins the very fabric of human society and our relationship to the natural environment. Today, insecure tenure rights threaten the livelihoods and wellbeing of a third of the world’s population, and with it, the very future of our planet.
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Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Tenure in The INDCS

Status and Recommendations

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2016
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community land rights
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
This brief presents a review of 161 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted on behalf of 188 countries3 for COP 21 to determine the extent to which Parties made clear commitments to strengthen or expand the tenure and natural resource management rights of IP/LCs as part of their climate change mitigation plans or associated adaptation actions.4 Of the 161 INDCs submitted, 131 are from countries with tropical and subtropical forests.
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Land Legacy Issues - Guidance on Corporate Responsibility

Manuals & Guidelines
September, 2017
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land governance
sustainable development
fisheries
forestry
agriculture
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
This Guide aims to inform companies that hold land or purchase land directly from companies that hold land. It provides operational guidance for companies confronting “legacy land issues” and clarifies a company’s roles and responsibilities in dealing with legacy land issues in their existing holdings, while also providing direction on where to look for more detailed information and tools.
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Background document on guidance to corporates on the practical application of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure (VGGT)

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 2015
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
VGGT
sustainable development
food security
fisheries
forestry
agriculture
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
The objective of this document is to guide the corporates and investors understand how to respect peoples’ ’‘tenure rights to land, fisheries and forest”,and ensure that communities have access to remedies ‘acceptable to both parties’ when such rights are impinged or such potential is recognized.
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Respecting Land and Forest Rights: Risks, Opportunities and a Guide for Companies

Training Resources & Tools
August, 2015
Global
Land & Investments
land governance
land investments
land rights
land tenure
local communities
tenure security
This Guide is complementary to the Interlaken Group's 'Respecting Land and Forest Rights: a Guide for Companies'. It provides guidance on what companies can do to reduce risk through improve tenure governance in land-based investment, reflecting the principles of responsible governance of land tenure set out in the VGGT. It provides a more manageable presentation of the VGGT, along with steps to ensure that a company acts consistently with them and includes thorough due diligence on the tenure rights of project-affected communities.
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Who Owns the World’s Land? A global baseline of formally recognized indigenous and community land rights.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
In recent years, there has been growing attention and effort towards securing the formal, legal recognition of land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Communities and Indigenous Peoples are estimated to hold as much as 65 percent of the world’s land area under customary systems, yet many governments formally recognize their rights to only a fraction of those lands. This gap—between what is held by communities and what is recognized by governments—is a major driver of conflict, disrupted investments, environmental degradation, climate change, and cultural extinction.