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Mission
Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.
Goals
- Get the rights and interests of forest peoples recognised in laws, policies and programmes
- Support forest peoples to build their own capacities to claim and exercise their human rights
- Counter top-down policies and projects that threaten the rights of forest peoples
- Promote community-based sustainable forest management
- Ensure equity, counter discrimination and promote gender justice
- Inform NGO actions on forests in line with forest peoples’ visions
- Link up indigenous and forest peoples’ movements at the regional and international levels
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 54Beyond Offsets: People And Planetcentred Responses To The Climate And Biodiversity Crisis
This report aims to help put forest peoples back at the centre of discussions on financing the preservation of forests by exploring non-market approaches (NMAs) and the contribution they can make to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. It offers a description of six NMAs, and of the relative strengths and weaknesses, to inform civil society, IP and LC organisations, policymakers, scientists, economists and the private sector who seek ways to move away from contested carbon or biodiversity markets and who would benefit from more
ANALYSES Droits des communautés et changement climatique: Quel avenir voulons-nous?
Droits des communautés et changement climatique: Quel avenir voulons-nous?
Rapport de synthèse pour un Dialogue sur l'avenir du climate
Author: Initiative des droits et ressources, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Rainforest Foundation US, and Forest Peoples Programme
Date: février 12, 2024
Droits des communautés et changement climatique: Quel avenir voulons-nous?
Le 17 septembre 2023, plus de 70 représentants des titulaires de droits et leurs alliés se sont réunis pour un dialogue mondial sur la façon dont le financement climatique peut ou doit soutenir leur vision de l’avenir dans un monde affecté par le changement climatique.
Carbon Markets, Forests and Rights: An Introductory Series
These explainers represent a preliminary response to requests from communities for information on the topic of carbon markets.a They are likely to be updated based on further feedback and questions, including when it comes to practical strategies for the defence of rights in the context of carbon market developments.