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Securing rights, combating climate change: how strengthening community forest rights mitigates climate change
This report analyses evidence linking community forest rights with healthier forests and lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
It makes the case for strengthening the rights of indigenous and local communities over their forests as a policy tool for mitigating climate change. The report argues that when Indigenous Peoples and local communities have no or weak legal rights, their forests tend to be vulnerable to deforestation and thus become the source of carbon dioxide emissions. Legal forest rights for communities and government protection of t ...
Securing rights, combating climate change: how strengthening community forest rights mitigates climate change
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Available online: https://www.wri.org/publication/securing-rights-combating-climate-change
C. Stevens ; R. Winterbottom ; J. Springer ; Katie Reytar ; World Resources Institute
Published by: WRI ; 2014This report analyses evidence linking community forest rights with healthier forests and lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
It makes the case for strengthening the rights of indigenous and local communities over their forests as a policy tool for mitigating climate change. The report argues that when Indigenous Peoples and local communities have no or weak legal rights, their forests tend to be vulnerable to deforestation and thus become the source of carbon dioxide emissions. Legal forest rights for communities and government protection of their rights tend to lower carbon dioxide emissions and deforestation. Indigenous Peoples and local communities with legal forest rights maintain or improve their forests’ carbon storage. Even when communities have legal rights to their forest, government actions that weaken those rights can lead to high carbon dioxide emissions and deforestation. It argues that communities can partially overcome government actions that weaken their forest rights.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Agroclimatology ; Forest management ; Climate change ; Social aspects ; Climate change - Mitigation
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Reefs at Risk Revisited | World Resources Institute
This report provides a detailed assessment of the status of and threats to the world’s coral reefs. It evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities, and includes an assessment of climate-related threats to reefs. It also contains a global assessment of the vulnerability of nations and territories to coral reef degradation.
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Available online: http://pdf.wri.org/reefs_at_risk_revisited.pdf
Lauretta Burke ; Katie Reytar ; World Resources Institute ; Mark Spalding ; Allison Perry
Published by: WRI ; 2011This report provides a detailed assessment of the status of and threats to the world’s coral reefs. It evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities, and includes an assessment of climate-related threats to reefs. It also contains a global assessment of the vulnerability of nations and territories to coral reef degradation.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate change ; Coral ; Environmental degradation ; Ecosystem ; Environment and landscape ; Oceans
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