Seven reasons why climate-induced land grabbing requires significant changes in land governance

Abstract

Two decades after the start of the debate on land grabbing, scholarly and policy attention is shifting from ‘how to stop land grabbing’ to ‘how to use land to combat climate change’. In this trend, the climate-induced land grabbing is deepening for production of renewables, carbon trades and nature conservation, whereas the concept of climate justice is not sufficiently incorporated in the agenda against the land grabbing. In this article, we discuss seven reasons why we need significant changes in land governance to prioritise climate justice and address the overlooked inequalities caused by climate policies in a rapidly changing context.