Front Line Defenders global analysis 2020
Impunity still reigns when it comes to the murders of human rights defenders around the world, according to the Front Line Defenders organization, in its global analysis of 2020. The analysis examined
Indigenous Peoples
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Communities, conservation and livelihoods
In most places around the world, people are an integral, sometimes dominant, part of the environment. This has two implications. First, a key requirement for sustainability success lies in finding ways
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Rights-based conservation: the path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity?
This report is informed by the imperative to prevent the collapse of biodiversity while respecting the tenure and human rights of Indigenous Peoples (IPs), local communities (LCs), and Afrodescendants
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Under the cover of covid: new laws in Asia favor business at the cost of indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ land and territorial rights
This brief discusses legislative developments during COVID-19 in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines that undermine sustainable human-environment interactions and IPs’ and LCs’ broader enjoyment of their
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Uneven ground: Land inequality at the heart of unequal socieities
<p>In most countries, land inequality is growing. Worse, new measures and analysis published in this synthesis report show that land inequality is significantly higher than previously reported. This trend
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Scaling-up ecosystem-based debt-for-climate swaps: from the millions to the billions
This paper discusses how debt-for-climate swaps can be useful “triple-win” instruments to address the climate crisis by ensuring the protection of valuable terrestrial and marine ecosystems, while also
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Co-designing climate services to integrate traditional ecological knowledge: a case study from Bali
This SEI report discusses efforts to help Indigenous People adapt to climate change by combining their traditional ecological knowledge with scientific and technological sources of information about agriculture
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Undermining rights: indigenous lands and mining in the Amazon
This new WRI report estimates that legal and illegal mining in the Amazon now cover more than 20% of Indigenous lands – over 450,000 square kilometers. It also finds that Indigenous lands with mining experienced
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The economics of climate change mitigation in Indigenous Territories
Indigenous populations of the Amazon own 210 million hectares of land and have proven to be highly skilled in the field of forest conservation: the deforestation rate is 0.8%, i.e., even less than that
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Whose water? a comparative analysis of national laws and regulations recognizing indigenous peoples’, afro-descendants’, and local communities’ water tenure
This report presents an innovative, international comparative assessment on the extent to which various national-level legal frameworks recognize the freshwater tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants,