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13/10/22

Climate finance ‘not reaching communities’

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Mau Forest and tea plantations. Copyright: Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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The lands of indigenous peoples contain much of the world’s surviving tropical forests – which are key to limiting the devastating impacts of climate change. Yet it is estimated that just 17 per cent of global climate and conservation finance allocated for indigenous peoples and local communities’ forest management initiatives reaches them.

In this episode of Africa Science Focus, Bryson Ogden of the Rights and Resources Initiative in Washington DC explains the barriers indigenous peoples face in accessing funds meant to protect forests on their lands. And Kenyan social entrepreneur and climate leader, Patricia Kombo, speaks about the importance of the forests in indigenous communities.

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.