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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
    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2024
    Africa

    De plus en plus de pays africains se dotent d’universités virtuelles. Réponse pertinente, bien que partielle, au défi de la massification, leur déploiement soulève des défis techniques, institutionnels, culturels et de qualité des ressources mobilisées. En Afrique, dans un contexte de contraintes budgétaires manifestes sur l’enseignement supérieur, le coût de financement des infrastructures universitaires publiques est élevé. Les universités numériques semblent un moyen d’offrir un accès moins coûteux à la formation tout en répondant à l’enjeu de massification.

  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
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 2023
    Africa

    We, the African Heads of State and Government, gathered for the inaugural Africa Climate Summit (ACS) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4th to 6th September 2023; in the presence of other global leaders, intergovernmental organizations, Regional Economic Communities, United Nations Agencies, private sector, civil society organizations, indigenous peoples, local communities, farmer organizations, children, youth, women and academia,

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 2023
    Asia

    This document includes recommendations to different stakeholder groups (from governments to UN organizations) to operationalize a human rights-based approach to climate justice that affirms the link between climate action and land tenure security of the rural poor.

  6. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 2022
    Cameroon

    Le climat de la planète Terre change et le Cameroun, comme d’autres nations africaines, en subit les conséquences. Les risques physiques liés au changement climatique et les impacts déjà élevés des dangers aigus et chroniques exposent le Cameroun à de graves pertes économiques et de bien-être et menacent sa trajectoire de développement.

  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
    December, 2021
    Senegal

    Au demeurant, bien accompagner et appuyer les communautés locales dans la défense de leurs droits fonciers suppose une bonne connaissance des mécanismes nationaux et supranationaux de protection des droits fonciers des communautés. Or, si les premiers sont connus et mobilisés par les acteurs et organisations dans le cadre de leur travail, les seconds restent encore largement méconnus et donc peu mobilisés dans la défense des droits fonciers des communautés locales.

  9. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2018
    China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam

    The forum was co-hosted by the Mekong Region Land Governance Project and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Co-Conveners of the programme includes the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) and the Independent Mediation Group (IMG). The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg supported the Forum.

  10. 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.

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