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Climatewash: The World Bank’s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights reveals how the Bank is appropriating climate commitments made at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to justify its multibillion-dollar initiative to “formalize” land tenure across the Global South.
Sustainable land management (SLM) plays a pivotal role in land restoration and in achieving Land Degradation Neutrality. Despite steady efforts by governments and international development agencies to promote SLM, its rate of adoption remains low.
This report provides a critical update to the 2017 Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) analysis Power and Potential. It evaluates the extent to which national laws, as of 2024, recognize the specific community forest rig
Carbon projects often impact lands managed by communities with insecure or informal tenure rights, especially in Africa and Asia, where carbon markets are expanding rapidly. Nearly 80% of land managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities in these regions lacks formal recognition.
GLA believes it is crucial to collectively advance thinking, dialogue, and action on the role of land rights and tenure security to make the VCM and other nature-based markets equitable, efficient and sustainable.
The study on collective tenure rights and climate action in sub-Saharan Africa aims to consolidate and analyse the state of the evidence on how tenure arrangements – in particular collective ownership and management of forests operating in complex systems of contingent factors – impact forest con
Land tenure security is a concept that informs land governance interventions. In short, the thinking is that tenure security will lead to positive economic, environmental and social impacts and hence to improved livelihoods for the land right holders.