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Leaders from world’s most forested countries call for new approach to manage remaining forests in post-Paris Agreement era
A recent analysis published by eight former leaders of public forest agencies calls for new, participatory approaches to forest regulations to address urgent global challenges….
Land Rights Now Alliance aims to double land legally owned by Indigenous Peoples by 2020
On March 2, RRI joined Oxfam International and the International Land Coalition in the launch of the Land Rights Now alliance—a global initiative to secure…
15th RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change
The 15th installment in RRI’s series of global dialogues on forests, governance, and climate change took stock of two far-reaching developments in international efforts to…
RRI established a collaboration
to advance community land rights reform with Oxfam, International Land Coalition, IUCN, and Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, and convened a major global summit on recognition of…
RRI’s efforts propelled substantial strengthening of government
commitment for tenure reform in five target countries—Laos, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, India and Colombia—and significant, national-level progress in four others—Liberia, Peru, China, and…
RRI held two global RRI Dialogues on Forests,
Governance and Climate Change in London and The Hague which contributed to RRI’s analysis to REDD narrative and introduced RRI in discussions on food security….
Compiled a new dataset
on depth of statutory tenure rights in 15 countries and made extensive forest tenure data for 40 countries available online.
Effectively advocated for a dramatic increase in budget support
for community programs, inclusion of gender and tenure in the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)’s next biennial work program.
Hosted the International Conference on Rights,
Forests and Climate Change in Oslo; which catalyzed new, forward looking thinking on “last great global land grab”; “who owns the carbon”; “regulatory takings and…
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