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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become … environmental disasters and more long-term environmental degradation, which produce life-threatening diseases. … that the connection between the Endorois people and the land they once lived on were directly related to their human …
UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015
… resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance and … in redressing environmental imbalance: insecure land and tenure rights; obstructed access to natural resource … more severe storms and flooding, species depletion, soil degradation, deforestation, and other negative environmental …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… proposed reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanisms. No one blueprint for RBA … DIHR Danish Institute for Human Rights DLA Department of Land Affairs (South Africa) DNPWC Department of National … interest in social processes that shape patterns of land use. Before joining WCS he was the Monitoring and …
Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… mechanism, and the elaboration of rules on permissible land-use, land- use change and forestry (“LULUCF”). The … worked on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries since 2005. The Warsaw … and removals by sinks was used as a proxy for “carbon neutrality” or a “net zero” goal. , both of which also proved …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… REDD reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation SATIIM Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous … as resulting not only from drought but from land degradation linked to loss of natural vegetation … riches. According to the views of many indigenous peoples, land should not be torn open and exploited, which they …