Securing Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Land Rights in the Voluntary Carbon Market

GLA believes it is crucial to collectively advance thinking, dialogue, and action on the role of land rights and tenure security to make the VCM and other nature-based markets equitable, efficient and sustainable. In the following sections of this brief, we set out some key considerations and propose concrete actions to make the VCM work for IPs and LCs, the carbon market and the global climate agenda. While we focus especially on addressing the threat represented by individual carbon projects present in the VCM, several considerations in this brief also apply to Jurisdictional REDD projects and to nature-based markets in general.