scholarly journals Report: Status of Legal Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’, Local Communities’ and Afro-descendant Peoples’ Rights to Carbon Stored in Tropical Lands and Forests

2021 ◽  
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Latin America ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Subtropical Forest ◽  
Emissions Reductions ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
Carbon Offset ◽  
The Status ◽  
Natural Climate

This study reviews the status of the legal recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples to the carbon in their lands and territories across 31 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Together, these countries hold almost 70 percent of the world’s tropical forests and represent at least 62 percent of the total feasible natural climate solution potential, and thus the bulk of nature-based emissions reductions and carbon offset opportunities in tropical and subtropical forest countries.

A Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands

2018 ◽  
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Carbon Storage ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Co2 Mitigation ◽  
Natural Climate

If properly leveraged, natural climate solutions can contribute over 37% of cost-effective CO2 mitigation by 2030. Evidence shows Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to achieving such outcomes. This report presents the most comprehensive assessment to date of carbon storage in documented community lands worldwide.

scholarly journals Significance of Community-Held Territories in 24 Countries to Global Climate

2021 ◽  
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Greenhouse Gas ◽  
International Development ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
The World ◽  
Timely Reminder

This research provides a timely reminder of the global significance of community-held lands and territories; their importance for the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of tropical forestlands across the world; and the critical gaps in the international development architecture that have so far undermined progress towards the legal recognition of such lands and territories. Our findings indicate that Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendant Peoples, and local communities customarily hold and use at least 958 million hectares (mha) of land in the 24 reviewed countries but have legally recognized rights to less than half of this area (447 mha). Their lands are estimated to store at least 253.5 Gigatons of Carbon (GtC), playing a vital role in the maintenance of globally significant greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs. However, the majority of this carbon (52 percent, or 130.6 GtC) is stored in community-held lands and territories that have yet to be legally recognized.

Can Indigenous and Community-Based Ecotourism Serve as a Catalyst for Land Sparing in Latin America?

2020 ◽  
pp. 004728752094968
Author(s):  
Ulrich Gunter ◽  
M. Graziano Ceddia
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Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
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Secondary Data ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
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Land Sparing

The present study investigates the role of ecotourism as a potential catalyst for land sparing in Latin America, with a particular focus on indigenous and community-based ecotourism. The research question is investigated within a comprehensive empirical land sparing–agricultural expansion framework, which uses the Jevons paradox as its theoretical foundation. It also allows for environmental governance and includes several socioeconomic control variables. In doing so, a panel data set based on secondary data from institutional sources and comprising 10 Latin American countries for the period from 1995 to 2015 is employed, which resulted in 209 observations in total. Panel estimation results show that there is only moderate evidence of land sparing associated with ecotourism, when it occurs on indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ land. To achieve land sparing through ecotourism, titling land to indigenous peoples and local communities as stakeholders is therefore crucial, but this beneficial effect should not be overestimated.

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