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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2021
    Global

    Land and ecosystems lay the foundation of the economy and the wellbeing of society. 85 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion young people live in regions that are directly dependent on land and natural resources for sustenance. Land degradation is a youth issue that threatens current and future generations’ quality of life. Young people are increasingly becoming eco-anxious about threats to their environment and the possible impacts there may be for future generation.

  2. Library Resource
    Understanding and Addressing Corruption in the Land Sector

    Written Submission to UNAC COSP10

    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2023
    Global

    Land corruption – corrupt practices in the land sector – threatens the lives and livelihoods of people and communities, the environment and climate, food security and political stability. Its impacts are particularly acute for 2.5 billion people who live on and from the land. Addressing it requires a dedicated focus and assessment of land related institutions across different national contexts.

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    May, 2023
    Global

    While emissions trading already began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, carbon markets can officially be traced back to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. The Kyoto Protocol introduced market-based mechanisms allowing countries to trade emission allowances and invest in emission reduction projects overseas. On this basis, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) was launched in 2005, pioneering the introduction of large-scale, regulated carbon trading systems.

  4. Library Resource
    Fair Transitions and the Politics of Land.

    Institutions and Imaginaries for Inclusive Futures

    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 2023
    Global

    Questions about how land is governed and controlled in the context of multiple crises are key to debates about fair transitions. The energy transition, net-zero ambitions, nature protection, and food system transformation all involve claims on land, water, and forests. How these claims are framed, analysed, and governed, how access to land is organised, and who gets a seat at the table to discuss key decisions are questions of urgent concern from both a fair transitions perspective and a land governance perspective. Key note speaker Prof.

  5. Library Resource
    the 10th anniversary of the vggt

    A decade of the CFS VGGT: assessing progress and enhancing accountability

    Conference Papers & Reports
    May, 2022
    Global

    The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security (CFS VGGT) promote secure tenure rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests as a means of eradicating hunger and poverty, supporting sustainable development, and enhancing the environment.

  6. Library Resource
    Women's Digital Inclusion

    Background paper for the G20

    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 2018
    Global

    The internet has great potential to promote women’s digital inclusion and gender equality, one of the pillars of sustainable development. But it can also pose new challenges to women’s rights and personal security, both online and offline.

    This briefing, jointly published by the Internet Society and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), outlines ways in which policy makers can facilitate the internet’s positive potential through an enabling framework for women’s digital inclusion:

  7. Library Resource
    Declaración Mar Muerto

    EL DERECHO A LA TIERRA COMO VÍA PARA SALIR DE LA CRISIS CLIMÁTICA

    Conference Papers & Reports
    May, 2022
    Global

    26 de mayo de 2022. En el cuarto y último día del Foro Global de la Tierra 2022, en una decisión unánime, los miembros de la ILC adoptaron la Declaración del Mar Muerto.

     

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2021
    Global

    About the workshop

    On 28th June from 2pm - 5pm CEST the LandPortal and LandVoc Community of Experts hosted a workshop as part of the 4th AGROVOC Annual Editorial Meeting to support shared learning and dialogue on the development, promotion and adoption of AGROVOC sub-schemes. 

  9. Library Resource
    Where Bottom-Up and Top-Down Meet: Challenges in Shaping Sustainable  & Scalable Land Interventions
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2021
    Egypt, Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Chad, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Vietnam, Palestine, Global

    LAND-at-scale is a land governance support program for developing countries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, which was launched in 2019. The aim of the program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale in lower- and middle-income countries/regions/landscapes. The program is designed to scale successful land governance initiatives and to generate and disseminate lessons learned to facilitate further scaling.

  10. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2011
    Global

    The report addresses a much debated issue – bioenergy and associated land use change, and how the climate change mitigation from use of bioenergy can be influenced by greenhouse gas emissions arising from land use change. The purpose of this background report is to supply a more detailed, fully referenced version for practitioners, and researchers, in support of the short version (IEA Bioenergy: ExCo:2010:03) which was aimed at policy advisors and policy makers.

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