Observers marked 2023 as a “make-or-break” year for voluntary carbon markets and a key “inflection point” for their role in addressing climate change and global deforestation. Proponents highlight that forest carbon projects channel much-needed funds towards forest protection and are pivotal to climate change mitigation. However, critics emphasize that carbon deals set incentives for over-crediting. Moreover, carbon offsetting allows the biggest emitters to simply outsource their climate mitigation efforts with potentially adverse impacts for affected communities.
Africa's carbon deals and the hidden tenure challenge
Observers marked 2023 as a “make-or-break” year for voluntary carbon markets and a key “inflection point” for their role in addressing climate change and global deforestation. Proponents highlight that forest carbon projects channel much-needed funds towards forest protection and are pivotal to climate change mitigation. However, critics emphasize that carbon deals set incentives for over-crediting. Moreover, carbon offsetting allows the biggest emitters to simply outsource their climate mitigation efforts with potentially adverse impacts for affected communities.
NEWS: Land Portal welcomes 2024 World Bank Land Conference materials into the Land Library
December 3, 2024 — At the Land Portal, we are committed to advancing the accessibility and long-term sustainability of knowledge on land governance. The World Bank Land Conference is one of the premier venues for knowledge exchange on land, and we were thrilled when the organizers requested our support in making the 2024 conference session materials available to the public in our Land Library, which now hosts over 73,000 publications on land governance.
African Land and Environment Digest October-November 2024
Knowledgebase.land compiles a bimonthly news round up focusing on African land related news. The articles reviewed below are a taster of what you can access via the website. We provide a selection of carefully curated links to a wide range of publications reporting on the important issues of the day. In this issue we focus on continental developments as well as links to key news stories from South Africa and Namibia.
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Recent events
LANDac Annual Conference 2025
Plurality of Knowledge: The future of land governance in shifting global contexts
Utrecht, the Netherlands | 2-4 July 2025
Call for Sessions opens 18 December 2024
World Bank Land Conference 2025
Recent blogs
Mediation: A Path to Resolving Land Rights Conflicts in Cameroon
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GIZ Knowledge Exchange Workshop 2024 in Senegal Took a Deep Dive on Anchoring Practitioners’ Experience in Responsible Land Governance Systems
As part of its efforts to promote secure land tenure in Africa, three Programmes of German Development Cooperation joined hands and brought together 120 land experts from 17 countries to discuss Responsible Land Governance Systems in Somone, Senegal on 7-11 October 2024. These were: the “Global Programme on Responsible Land Policy” (GPRLP), the “Global Programme Strengthening Advisory Capacities for Land Governance in Africa” (SLGA) and the bilateral project “Seen Suuf - Support for the improvement of land management”. This was the second such workshop after the Knowledge Exchange Workshop in June 2022 in Uganda, entitled "Secure Land Rights – Learning, Collaboration and Practice", and was intended to deepen exchanges as well as share lessons learned.
NEWS: Land Portal welcomes 2024 World Bank Land Conference materials into the Land Library
December 3, 2024 — At the Land Portal, we are committed to advancing the accessibility and long-term sustainability of knowledge on land governance. The World Bank Land Conference is one of the premier venues for knowledge exchange on land, and we were thrilled when the organizers requested our support in making the 2024 conference session materials available to the public in our Land Library, which now hosts over 73,000 publications on land governance.
Launch of the Open Data Champions Initiative
We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Data Champions Initiative, an effort to celebrate and elevate leaders worldwide who champion open data in the land sector. This initiative shines a spotlight on the incredible individuals dedicated to advancing data transparency and access, especially within the Global South. These champions are at the forefront of transformative change, harnessing the power of data to address critical land governance challenges.