Climate Land Ambition & Rights Alliance
Land rights, climate change, and ecosystem health are all key sustainability challenges for the 21st century. The Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA) was founded in 2015 by NGOs and researchers to address these challenges in an integrated way.
CLARA members working at the grassroots see how climate resilience and resource rights are linked. CLARA works to make forest protection, agroecology, and indigenous land management a bigger focus for climate action. We are working to increase the share of funding support directed toward these solutions.
Article 6.2 - countries swapping carbon credits
Article 6.4 - offsets, but not emission reductions
Voluntary Markets - where did ‘integrity’ go?
CLARA member groups are concerned about weaknesses in carbon markets and misleading claims about ‘net zero’. Most recently, CLARA has been tracking the debate around how carbon ‘removals’ are defined and used.
CLARA’s Work
Article 6.8 - sets the table for true solutions
TFFF - Brazil’s alternative heading for UNFCCC COP30
‘Nature Based Solutions’ - nature, or market?
No Offsets! - the reality of a limited carbon budget
SBTi - corporate accounting for carbon removals
Net Zero - we can’t use offsets to get there
IPCC - scientific proposals for carbon removals
Members
CLARA members are leaders in the climate justice movement, in rainforest and temperate/boreal protection movements. We work on land rights and agroecology. CLARA members are active in more than two dozen countries.
Find out more about our members and the work that they do here.