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Lombok, Indonesia, July 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

Press Release:<\/span> \u00abNew studies suggest lack of meaningful land rights play key role in conflict, increase in carbon emissions from Indonesia\u2019s forests\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

As region prepares for major conference on forest tenure, Rights and Resources Initiative reveals new analyses showing key tropical countries embracing community rights as they post dramatic gains in forest cover. But data show hot spots for conflict as well.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With political leaders and forest experts from across Asia heading to Indonesia later this month for a major international conference on forest policy, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) presents the latest research and analyses that have an important bearing on subjects likely to come up for discussion at the conference, which will be held July 11-15, 2011 in Lombok.<\/p>\n

New Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Greener Side of REDD+: Lessons for REDD+ from Countries where Forest Area Is Increasing <\/a><\/p>\n

Summary Brief<\/em><\/strong> (English<\/a>, Bahasa<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Background:<\/span> A new analysis of five major developing nations\u2014China, South Korea, Viet Nam, India and Chile\u2014 that in just 20 years have dramatically reversed their position from losing to gaining vast areas of forest. Researchers pinpoint what they did to achieve such a stunning turnaround and show how their progress could complement and accelerate the goals of a new effort to reduce (greenhouse gas) emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries or REDD+. The analysis also reveals key missteps\u2014chief among them a failure to support tenure reform\u2014that could scuttle progress in forested regions.<\/p>\n

An Economic Case for Tenure Reform in Indonesia\u2019s Forests<\/a> (Background Paper)<\/p>\n

Background:<\/span>
\nA new briefing paper by RRI and independent analyst Dominic Elson summarizing the struggle for tenure rights and current measures to decrease deforestation and emissions across the world, with particular reference to Indonesia. The paper takes into consideration the multiple actors at play in government and civil society who are trying to place these changes in political and livelihoods contexts \u2013 too often from conflicting vantage points. This analysis draws on information from various sources to present the current \u201cstate of play\u201d in Indonesia\u2014which has emerged as a key country in the global effort to reduce forest-based emissions. Much attention has been given in the global debate to the argument that reducing carbon emissions from forests could greatly slow economic growth in developing countries across the globe. This analysis presents provocative evidence showing that, in fact, the opposite may be true: in countries where equitable tenure regimes are supported, new pathways to a \u201clow-carbon\u201d economy emerge.<\/p>\n

What Rights? Measuring the Depth of Indigenous Peoples and Community Forest Tenure: Preliminary Findings from a Legal Analysis of 33 Forest Tenure Regimes in 15 Countries <\/a>(Policy Brief)<\/p>\n

Background:<\/span>
\nThis brief presents some preliminary results of a legal analysis conducted by RRI to provide a fuller picture of global tenure rights of forest peoples. This analysis unpacks the collective rights to forestland and forest resources held by communities and codified in law. This legal analysis complements RRI\u2019s tenure distribution data by clarifying what legal rights are associated with community forest tenure regimes. Due to the complexity and specificities of national legislation, and the goal of creating a comparative database of rights, this analysis uses the \u201cBundle of Rights\u201d conceptual framework as its foundation. The analysis assesses whether communities can access forest resources; make decisions over forest management; commercially harvest timber or other forest products; exclude outsiders from their forests; whether the tenure regimes confer the right to lease, sell, or use forests as collateral; and, whether the law guarantees communities due process and fair compensation if the state revokes these rights. <\/p>\n

Media Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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+1 301 943 3287<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jenna DiPaolo<\/p>\n

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+1 202 412 0331<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Press Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n