Bulldozers at the gate
02 November 2021
BULLDOZERS AT THE GATES — Here’s a novel idea: Let’s save the forests. As the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, gets underway, the first big promise is about deforestation.
Land Portal featured in the Global Data Barometer blog
05 November 2021
Towards more inclusive land data infrastructures: The work of the Land Portal
The Land Portal Foundation is Global Data Barometer’s (GDB) partner, which provided key input and support to develop the land module. The Land Portal works to develop an open land data ecosystem to improve decision making and policy through making land data and information more accessible and available.
Story of Sabitri Hikaka
Sabitri Hikaka is a single woman of Boriguda village in Rayagada district of Odisha. She lost her parents in her childhood. This incident brought all the responsibility of three siblings on to her shoulder. She toiled hard to meet her ends and remained unmarried to support her family. Sabitri’s uncles refused to share the ancestral property with Sabitri just because she was a woman.
4 November 2021
Handover of land certificates in Bujumbura Province, Burundi 25 October 2021
03 November 2021
207 land certificates were recently handed over to the beneficiaries, men and women, of the Benga and Karunga hills of Isare commune, Bujumbura province.
Governments and private funders announce historic US$1.7 billion pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
01 November 2021
UK, Norway, Germany, US, and the Netherlands, and 17 funders pledged to support Indigenous Peoples, local communities at COP26, citing their proven role in preventing deforestation that fuels climate change
Story of Rangkhung Village : Origin of a village and its coexistence with land
The land has always been an important component of development, especially for people in rural areas. There is no commodity more valuable than land and tribals are no exception. Control over land, however, may also be perceived less in terms of individual land ownership and more in terms of land use, or through what is known as land tenure. Different people in a family or community have different rights to access the land for different purposes and at different times.
2 November 2021
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference: COP26
02 November 2021
The UN Climate Change Conference (the official name for climate Conferences of the Parties) has happened every year since 1995. The two-week summits are an important space for stakeholders to discuss the climate crisis on a global level. These annual conferences bring together those that have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international environmental treaty addressing climate change .Each year representatives from every party come together to discuss action on climate change in what is known as a COP. The 26th COP was meant to take place in Glasgow, UK last November, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brazil indigenous people tell COP26: you need us to solve climate crisis
01 November 2021
BRASILIA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's indigenous people said on Monday they would tell a U.N. climate conference that the world needs their expertise in protecting the Amazon rainforest to solve the global warming crisis.
The groups - who say they are facing increasing threats from loggers, miners and Brazil's own climate-skeptic government - told Reuters they had brought 40 envoys to the COP26 conference in Glasgow, their biggest ever international delegation.
COP26: Don’t Be Fooled by Bolsonaro’s Pledges
02 November 2021
(Sao Paulo) – Brazil’s climate commitments and policies fall far short of what is needed to address the environmental and human rights crisis in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil’s delegation arrives in Glasgow for the global summit on climate change with a national climate action plan that is less ambitious than its previous one, and with forest conservation plans that either lack deforestation reduction targets or set them at far less ambitious levels than Brazil’s prior commitments.