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 [...]

Summary of Day 1

The chairs of the morning and afternoons sessions Kyeretwie Opoku and Robin Mearns offered short summaries of the day from their perspectives Kyeretwie Opoku stated several issues where a consensus seems to be emerging from the group: The climate crises presents an opportunity and acts as a catalyst for addressing problems we have had in [...]

Session 2: The role of land rights in facilitating adaptation and climate-resilient development

Jesse Ribot, Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Illinois, presented on Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation: Toward a framework of climate change action. He emphasized the different contributions of two analysis frameworks: impact, and vulnerability analysis. Impact analysis allows to identify the likely consequences of climate change under fixed conditions. It does explain the [...]