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Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs

Reports & Research
September, 2016
South America
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia

A new report offers evidence that the modest investments needed to secure land rights for indigenous communities will generate billions in returns—economically, socially and environmentally—for local communities and the world’s changing climate. The report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, quantifies for the first time the economic value of securing land rights for the communities who live in and protect forests, with a focus on Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia.


 



Want to save the rainforest on the cheap? Give land to the indigenous, report says

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: October 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


Communities that own the territory are more likely to conserve the forest than other land users


RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving indigenous people land title deeds is one of the most cost-effective ways to preserve South America's endangered rainforest, a research group said on Thursday.


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