Session 10: Practical steps to establish mechanisms for effective implementation at national and global levels

The speaker of this panel sessions were asked to reflect on the last two days and offer recommendations as to what to do with regard to the UNFCCC process and the climate change funds and initiatives. Speakers were Haddy Sey, Phillip Shearman, Sandra Smithey, Lars Løvold, Joji Cariño, and Carmenza Robledo. The chair of the [...]

Session 8: Scaling up the recognition and protection of land rights

Securing rights as a mitigation measure: The costs of securing rights and carbon benefits Jeffrey Hatcher, Policy Analyst, Rights and Resources Initiative Jeff’s presentation focused on the ways and costs for delimitating and registering rights asking why community tenure is central, what recognizing rights means and how practical and costly different options are in perspective [...]

Property rights and a carbon cadastre in a REDD scenario

The presentation by Grenville Barnes, Professor at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation of the University of Florida – Gainesville, focused on property rights issues, and showed how lessons from analyzing land tenure systems could provide valuable to think about carbon rights. He presented 3 cases from the Amazon basin (from Peru, Bolivia and [...]