The Land Portal Foundation, the Tenure Facility, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the Ford Foundation proposed a series of Land Dialogues promoting the centrality of Indigenous and community land rights in advancing global efforts to halt the climate crisis, achieving a healthy planet and forwarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The dialogues focused on the importance of formally recognising and securing the customary lands of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as a crucial contribution to the overall climate health of the planet.

Seven dialogues took place spread out from April to October 2021 and brought together the leading experts, indigenous leaders and others to highlight the role of indigenous and community land rights in relation to these issues. The dialogues included a wide-range of creative spaces for knowledge sharing and dialogue engaging stakeholders and elevating the importance of land in the global agenda in a way that was easy to understand. The Land Dialogues were held in English with simultaneous translation to Spanish, Portuguese and French.

First webinar: Indigenous Peoples Forest Governance A Fundamental Strategy in Preserving Forests and Reducing Carbon Emissions

Second webinar: Land Rights, Biodiversity and Global Health How Can Indigenous Peoples Help Prevent Future Pandemics?

Third webinar: Lessons in Climate Resilience What Can We Learn from Insigenous Peoples and Local Communities?

Fourth webinar: Lessons from our Territories Honouring Traditional Knowledge in the Fight Against the Climate Crisis

Fifth webinar: Lessongs from Indigenous Food Systems

Sixth webinar: Energy Frontiers Renewable Energies in Indigenous Territories

Seventh webinar: Financing Land Rights Investing in People and  Nature