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Cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests
2014-09-18 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Since 2008, governments have invested $1.64 billion in funds to kick-start REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, the global effort to conserve the world's forests in order to better mitigate climate change. However, a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) finds that same amount of money could have secured the legal rights of indigenous and local people to 450 million hectares of forest, an area 40 percent larger than India. "Securing the rights of indigenous...
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