Explore the connection between land rights and climate justice
Infographics
Land Rights, Climate Change, and Environmental Stewardship
Vanishing Land: Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters, and Land Rights
Secure Land Rights: A Tool for Strengthening Food Security and Climate Resilience in the Global South
Land rights for women flips the script of gendered power—it challenges patriarchy at its root, by fundamentally changing women’s economic, social, and political status. And key to climate action, research shows efforts to protect biodiversity and address climate change are more successful when women have strong land rights.
Research
Women Gaining Ground: Securing Land Rights as a Critical Pillar of Climate Change Strategy
Land Tenure as a Critical Consideration for Climate Change-Related Displacement in Slow-Onset Disaster Zones
Land Rights for People in Rural Areas Can Improve Forest Management, Halt Deforestation
News
To Avert the Next Humanitarian Crisis, Empower Women and Girls
May 19, 2023
Women and girls are resilient agents of change – and their potential to respond to all crises, from conflict to climate change, is accelerated when they enjoy secure rights to land.
Read ArticleUnited Nations committee publishes landmark statement on land and human rights
February 07, 2023
This General Comment marks a historic juncture: the first comprehensive statement from a human rights treaty-monitoring body on the relationship between land and human rights.
Read MoreAt COP27, a Call to Root Climate Action and Justice in Land Rights for Women and Rural Communities
November 07, 2022
In Bangladesh’s Sundarbans, life revolves around coastal mangrove forests. But as climate change effects worsen, livelihoods are under threat. Read about what global actors at COP27 can do amid the deepening climate crisis.
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