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Community Forest Rights and Climate Change Mitigation

WRI-CoverSecuring Rights, Combating Climate Change. How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change is a study published by the Word Resource Institute. It focuses on the role of community rights in forest management in African, Asian and Latin American countries. The findings suggest that legal recognition of community rights combined with supportive action by the government enhance forest preservation along with its climate change mitigation benefits.