Indigenous Peoples & Local Community Tenure in the INDCs

Status and Recommendations

Author: Rights and Resources Initiative

Date: April 21, 2016

This brief presents a review of 161 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted on behalf of 188 countries for COP 21 to determine the extent to which Parties made clear commitments to strengthen or expand the tenure and natural resource management rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as part of their climate change mitigation plans or associated adaptation actions. Of the 161 INDCs submitted, 131 are from countries with tropical and subtropical forests.

 


https://doi.org/10.53892/ITWR4987
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Key Findings

  • Only 21 INDCs, representing less than 13 percent of the world’s tropical and subtropical forest area, included clear commitments to implement community-based tenure or natural resource management strategies as part of their climate change mitigation plans or adaptation actions.

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