For climate finance to work, it must consider women's land tenure rights

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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals depends on tackling women's land tenure insecurity in the Global South, writes Oxfam in Africa's Wanjiku Wanjohi

The inter-relationship between land ownership and climate justice in low-income communities remains thoroughly unexplored. In 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscored that land...

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