The webinar Multifaceted Challenges of Land and Climate Change explored the interconnection of land rights and climate responses at micro, meso and macro level. The webinar aimed to explore the following question: What kind of land governance will foster adequate climate response actions? Oxfam and partners in many countries are confronted with this two-sided problem while dealing with both land and climate justice interventions. Oxfam is currently investing in deepening the analysis of land & climate nexus at both country and global level.
The webinar was co-hosted by LANDac, the Land Portal Foundation and Oxfam Novib as part of the LANDac Online Encounter 2020.
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation can only be achieved if the land and property rights of stakeholders are assured and if communities form an integral part of landscape approaches and commodity supply chains.
• Land represents both a problem and a solution to climate change; deforestation and land grabs from communities will further exacerbate climate change, while company commitments to sustainable supply chains combined with secure management of land by indigenous and local communities will reduce GHG emissions.
• Bringing communities voices to the table with government and the private sector ensures that policies and programs will have meaningful and sustainable impact.

2) HOW AND WHY LAND IS A BIG PART OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS?
• Climate change and its interaction with land poses severe challenges for the wellbeing of human societies and ecosystems. How we use land for different uses matters for our response to climate change for both mitigation and adaptation.
Many land-based solutions can reduce the risk of warming, help with options to live with climate change and provide other benefits for humans, ecosystems and biodiversity.
• Effective policies can reduce trade-offs between ecosystem services and have adaptation and mitigation co-benefits, including regulation of land use, providing secure tenure for local communities to land, forest and aquatic systems for
fostering sustainable land management practices and restoration of degraded land and making commitments towards land degradation neutrality. Voluntary actions (change in diet, standards and certification, collective action), persuasive policies such as payments for ecosystem services, early warning systems and risk sharingmechanisms can complement these actions. (Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy)

3) CLIMATE CHANGE POSES NEW CONDITIONS THAT REQUIRE RETHINKING
LAND USE MANAGEMENT AND PROPERTY RIGHTS. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
AND WHAT ARE THE MAIN CHALLENGES?
• Climate change has forced us to consider land use in a far more integrated way - how mitigation and adaptation interact; how land uses for agriculture, how forestry and fisheries interact; and how production and nature conservation
interact. It is insufficient to analyze any one of these on i ts own and come up with sustainable solutions. We are being forced to think in terms of land use systems, and the institutional innovations that would be required for land use planning, investment and governance to be continuously response to changes in climate, as well as market, health, et al. (Sara Scherr)