Indigenous Peoples forests governance: a fundamental strategy in preserving forests and reducing carbon emissions | Land Portal
Contact details: 
Stacey Zammit (stacey.zammit@landportal.org)
Organizers: 
The Tenure Facility

The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility is focused on securing land and forest rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. We are the first financial mechanism to exclusively fund projects working towards this goal while reducing conflict, driving development, improving global human rights, and mitigating the impacts of climate change.

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Language of the event: 
English
Portuguese
Spanish
French

April 22nd, 2021 | 9:00AM-10:30AM EST - 3:00-4:30 CEST

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Colleagues joined the Ford Foundation, the Land Portal Foundation, the Tenure Facility and the Thomson Reuters Foundation for a webinar on April 22nd, Earth Day. This webinar provided an opportunity to review the report “Forest Governance by Indigenous and Tribal Peoples” by FAO and FILAC, and its main arguments. It discussed how governments can move forward formal recognition of territorial rights to indigenous and tribal territories and their forests that have yet to receive such recognition while reaching agreement with Indigenous and tribal traditional authorities about rules related to territorial planning and forest management, as well as coordinate actions to ensure those rules are respected. It also sparked debate on how global and national plans for preventing deforestation, forest degradation and carbon emissions on Indigenous and tribal territories should ensure safe living conditions and channel new investments to support traditional livelihoods. This webinar was a 90 minute session which included a panel discussion and presentation and a Q&A with the audience. The webinar took place in English and was simultaneously interpreted to Spanish, French and Portuguese.

This event was the first of a series of webinars organised under the “Land Dialogues”series, a Tenure Facility, Land Portal, Ford Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation initiative promoting the importance of recognizing legal ownership of Indigenous Peoples and local communities land rights as a prerequisite for achieving national and international goals for forest governance, food security, climate mitigation, economic development, and human rights.

Moderator

 

Zoe Tabary, Property Rights Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Zoe Tabary
Thomson Reuters 
Foundation 

 

 

Panelists

 
 
David Kaimowitz, Senior Advisor, Climate and Land Use Alliance

David
Kaimowitz

FAO
   

  

 
Dr. Myrna Cunningham, FILAC

Myrna
Cunningham

FILAC
  
  

 
 
 
Silvana Baldovino, Peruvian Environmental Law Society (SPDA)

Silvana
Baldovino

SPDA
  
   
  
  

 
Carlos Enrique Espinosa Peña - Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

Carlos
Espinosa
Peña

UTP
  
  

 
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