This publication brings together the results of a research partnership between four policy institutes: CEBRAP Sustentabilidade (Ĭentro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento’s sustainability centre) in Brazil, CEPAS (Ĭentre d’Etudes pour l’Action Sociale) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, CTSS IPB University (IPB University’s Centre for Transdisciplinary and Sustainability Sciences) in Indonesia, and Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) in the United Kingdom.ģ Through a twenty-month collaborative project, the four institutes sought to establish and discuss equitable research partnerships while examining prominent transnational initiatives that are affecting forest lands and peoples in the tropics. Rather, ‘glocalizing’ relates to redressing imbalances in the interplay between ‘global’ and ‘local’ imperatives in international collaboration, and between institutions in Global North and Global South countries. In this paper, being ‘glocal’ (or ‘glocalizing’) is not about translating, adapting or implementing Global North (or so-called ‘global’) ideas onto the ‘developing’ world. This includes revisiting Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 17 on ‘Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development’, the most central and implementation-focused of all the SDGs and climate targets.Ģ More inclusive international collaborations entail policy institutes in the ‘Global South’ leading and co-leading on critical analysis of international partnerships, and institutions in the ‘Global North’ acknowledging and learning from diverse perspectives, as well as enabling partnerships for ‘glocal’ land-use and forest governance analysis and solutions. The international community needs to take stock of how it frames and manages land-use, forest and climate policy collaborations: it needs to reflect on lessons learned to date, scale up effective solutions, rethink those that have not worked as intended, and improve the dynamics of transnational collaborations.Ī rethink of international collaborations needs to be conducted in an inclusive manner.
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International and market forces – particularly industrial-scale commodity markets and large-scale land acquisitions – are key underlying drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).ġ Their latest (2022) assessment comes as international and market-based mechanisms to steer land use in the tropics are continuing apace, and as climate crises compound environmental degradation and systemic poverty.
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