A WEBINAR FOR LONDON CLIMATE ACTION WEEK
WHEN
JUNE 23RD, 5-6PM CEST.
CONTEXT
A webinar co-organised with the International Institute for Environment and Development, Land Rights Now, Indigenous Peoples Rights International and Natural Justice.
The global energy transition is often framed in terms of finance, technology, and targets—but at its core, it is a profound transformation of land use and control. While land issues are increasingly present in forums like London Climate Action Week, they are typically subsumed within broader agendas such as climate finance, nature, adaptation, or food systems.
This webinar makes the case that land rights and land governance are not peripheral—but central to addressing the climate crisis and its impacts. As investment in renewable energy and transition minerals accelerates, the ‘transition’ is already reshaping territories worldwide—often where Indigenous Peoples and local communities live.
The energy transition is happening on land—and right now, we are not governing it fast enough to ensure rights protection, social equity and sustainability. Climate finance is flowing—but without land governance, delivery will fail or harm communities.
Objectives
- Unite academia, civil society, and grassroots rightsholders to explore what it takes to deliver a just transition in practice
- Highlight how securing land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities is essential across 3 dimensions of justice: distribution, procedure, and recognition
- Showcase existing solutions at both the country-level and local-level
- Explore how and where climate finance can deliver effective and equitable outcomes
Panelists
- Jeremy Bourgoin - Lead, Knowledge and Research, ILC
- Nathania Jacobs - Senior researcher, law, economies and justice programme, IIED
- Joan Carling - Executive director, IPRI
- Lauren Nel - Legal coordinator, Just Energy Transition Africa Initiative Natural Justice