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New Online Tool Shows Climate Finance Gaps & Limited Direct Funding To Indigenous Communities
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 12:22 pm | Rights and Resources Initiative
New Online Dashboard Brings Transparency to Climate Finance; Gives Open Access to Funding Data for Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afrodescendant Peoples’ Tenure Rights and Forest Guardianship More >>
Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Hold At Least 958 Million Hectares Of Land With Most Endangered Tropical Forests
Sunday, 7 November 2021, 6:53 am | Rights and Resources Initiative
At UNFCCC COP 26, New Research Shows Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities hold at least 958 million hectares of land in countries spanning most of the world’s endangered tropical forests – yet have legal rights to less than half of their ... More >>
Scientific Experts And Indigenous Leaders To Present New Analysis Quantifying At-Risk Forests & Carbon On Native Lands
Sunday, 7 November 2021, 6:38 am | Rights and Resources Initiative
Scientific Experts and Indigenous Leaders Representing Communities from the World’s Largest Tropical Forest Countries Launch New Analysis Revealing the Undeniable Need to Recognize Community Land Rights to Save the Climate Research presented at COP26 ... More >>
New Study Shows Rights-Based Conservation As Viable Path To Achieve Global Biodiversity Agenda
Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 11:46 am | Rights and Resources Initiative
WASHINGTON (DEC. 01, 2020) — With the UN, NGOs and conservationists advocating to place 30 percent or more of the planet’s terrestrial area under formal conservation by 2030, a new study cautions of the potential costs of using exclusionary conservation ... More >>