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But the only viable path to meet these goals is to recognize the rights of the communities who have long protected this planet.</p> </div> </div> </section> <div id="breadcrumbs"><div class="container"> <div class="aioseo-breadcrumbs"><span class="aioseo-breadcrumb"> <a href="https://rightsandresources.org" title="Home">Home</a> </span><span class="aioseo-breadcrumb-separator">»</span><span class="aioseo-breadcrumb"> Rights, Climate and Conservation </span></div> </div></div> <section id="" class="master-full-width-text "> <div class="container"> <div class="master__text "> <p>RRI’s research strengthens the growing body of evidence—captured in studies by the IPCC, <a href="https://ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IPBES</a>, and others—that recognizing community land rights leads to <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/CHET6628">lower deforestation rates</a>, higher carbon storage, and higher biodiversity. This includes tracking the amount of carbon stored in Indigenous and community lands.</p> <p>Communities manage nearly <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/NQNN6499">300 billion metric tons of carbon</a>, including 22 percent of tropical and sub-tropical forest carbon. Protecting and recognizing their rights to these lands is vital to keeping forests standing and carbon from being released into the atmosphere. Recognizing community rights is also critical for meeting targets to restore damaged lands.</p> <p>Given their key role in conservation, restoration, and climate change mitigation, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities—particularly the women within them—would appear to be natural allies for governments and conservation actors. However, RRI’s <a href="http://www.corneredbypas.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">research</a> with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has found that colonial models of conservation, which empty forests and lands of local peoples, are still widespread.</p> <p>RRI engages with international climate instruments and policymakers to ensure that rights are not just included as a safeguarding measure to prevent human rights violations, but embraced as a key solution. Our research on the critical connection between secure community land rights and improved climate outcomes has been featured in the 2019 <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land,</a> the 2023 and 2024 Forest Declaration Assessment report, and leading peer-reviewed journals across the world.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="master-two_column_text"> <div class="container"> <div class="master-two_column_text__cont"> <div class="column"><div class="master__text"><h2><strong>Check out our recent work on this subject!</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>VIDEO SERIES:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6GT1wgUSr0&list=PLgor7YHTeHYe6gdiupyxwLH8Tqm8cA8Ou">Carbon Markets and Our Rights – A Guide for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities</a><a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/MLQQ5744"></a></li> <li><strong>REPORT: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/MLQQ5744">Status of Legal Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’, Local Communities’ and Afro-descendant Peoples’ Rights to Carbon in Tropical Lands and Forests</a></li> <li><strong>BRIEF</strong>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/QMUD8864">Scaling-Up Recognition of Indigenous and Community Land Rights – Opportunities, Costs and Climate Implications</a></li> <li><strong>REPORT</strong>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/ZIKJ2998">Rights-Based Conservation – The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity?</a></li> <li><strong>REPORT:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/NQNN6499">A Global Baseline of Carbon Storage in Collective Lands</a></li> <li><strong>REPORT:</strong> <a href="https://www.corneredbypas.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cornered by Protected Areas</a>: Findings from our report on the contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to conservation</li> <li><strong>BRIEF:</strong> <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/QFUJ1241">Securing Community Land Rights: Priorities and Opportunities to Advance Climate and Sustainable Development Goals</a></li> </ul> </div></div> <div class="column"><div class="master__text"><p> </p> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none"> <ul> <li><strong>REPORT</strong>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/CHET6628">Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change</a></li> <li><strong>REPORT</strong>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/FNPN5361">Uncertainty and Opportunity: The Status of Forest Carbon Rights and Governance Frameworks in Over Half of the World’s Tropical Forests</a></li> <li><strong>PAPER</strong>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/GAXF9733">Mai-Ndombe: Will the REDD+ Laboratory Benefit Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities?</a></li> <li><strong>PAPER: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/MKMZ2578">The Green Climate Fund: Accomplishing a Paradigm Shift?</a></li> <li><strong>REPORT</strong>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.53892/UCYL3747">At a Crossroads: Trends in Recognition of Community-Based 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