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 [...]

Impressions from Participants

Marcus Colchester from the Forest Peoples Programme Mina Setra from the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) Fernanda Baptista and Natalie Unterstell from Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) Cuong Manh Pham from Vietnam’s Department of Forestry

Session 7: Critical issues and practical steps to include mechanisms to ensure rights in forest related climate initiatives

Six panelists were asked to each present, in five minutes, their views on the following for topic areas: multi-lateral climate agreements; donor strategies and investments; REDD implementing countries; and private sector investments.  The panelists were: Edmund Barrow, Ghan Shyam Pandey, Jennifer Rubis, Lilian Portillo, Ben Vickers, and Fernando Baptista. The summary of key points raised, [...]