Conclusions and Follow-up

As the conference concluded, several action steps were identified. As summarized by the Closing Session Chair, they are as follows: Revise the “Foundations for Effectiveness” document (previous version here) based on the conference inputs and circulate it to conference participants. Begin the process of creating an independent civil society advisory and auditing group to advise, [...]

Summary of Day 2

Marcus Colchester summarized the morning session of Day 2 as a pratical reality check: the drivers of land use change are complicated, recognizing rights is necessary but not sufficient, who owns carbon is unclear and overlapping rights are very complex, disputed and need clarifying. We were reminded of gender, generational and other issues and that [...]

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