{"id":4536,"date":"2025-04-30T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:34:58","slug":"under-guise-of-climate-action-the-world-bank-launches-fresh-offensive-on-land-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlandourbusiness.org\/es\/under-guise-of-climate-action-the-world-bank-launches-fresh-offensive-on-land-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Guise of Climate Action, the World Bank Launches Fresh Offensive on Land Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-subsection\"><div class=\"l-subsection-h\"><div class=\"l-subsection-hh g-html i-cf\"><p><strong>&#8212;FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 30, 2025; 9:00 AM PDT<\/p>\n<p>Media Contact: Frederic Mousseau, <a href=\"mailto:fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org\">fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org<\/a><a href=\"tel: +1-510-512-5458\">, +1 510-512-5458<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new report exposes the exploitation of the climate crisis by the World Bank to advance a global land grab agenda for corporate interests that will fuel dispossession across the Global South.<\/li>\n<li>Under the guise of accessing land for climate action, the Bank intends to open lands for agribusiness, mining, and carbon offsetting schemes \u2013\u00a0while undermining Indigenous and community land rights.<\/li>\n<li>The Bank\u2019s agenda to change land tenure directly contradicts recommendations made by climate experts, who uphold agroecology and the protection of lands from conversion and overexploitation as real solutions to the climate crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Oakland, CA \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Ahead of the World Bank\u2019s 2025 Land Conference starting on May 5th in Washington D.C., a new Oakland Institute report exposes how the financial institution is using the pretext of climate crisis to push a global land \u201creform\u201d agenda that favors corporate interests at the expense of people and the planet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/report\/climatewash\"><em>Climatewash: The World Bank\u2019s Fresh Offensive on Land Rights<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reveals how the Bank is appropriating climate commitments made at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to justify its multibillion-dollar initiative to \u201cformalize\u201d land tenure across the Global South. While the Bank claims that it is necessary \u201cto access land for climate action,\u201d\u00a0<em>Climatewash<\/em>\u00a0uncovers that its true aim is to open lands to agribusiness, mining of \u201ctransition minerals,\u201d and false solutions like carbon credits \u2013\u00a0fueling dispossession and environmental destruction.\u00a0Alongside plans to spend US$10 billion on land programs, the World Bank has also pledged to double its agribusiness investments to US$9 billion annually by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHijacking the climate crisis, the Bank is attempting to breathe new life and political buy-in to an agenda it has pushed in the Global South for several decades \u2013 often met with resistance from local communities against the commodification of their land for exploitation and extraction,\u201d said Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mousseau, Policy Director of the Oakland Institute and lead author of the report.\u00a0\u201cInstead of strengthening and securing land rights, this plan will enable land grabs and\u00a0exacerbate inequity and climate destruction,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p><em>Climatewash<\/em>\u00a0details how the Bank\u2019s land programs and policy prescriptions to governments dismantle collective land tenure systems and promote individual titling and land markets as the norm, paving the way for private investment and corporate takeover. These reforms, often financed through loans taken by governments, force countries into debt while pushing a \u201cstructural transformation\u201d that displaces smallholder farmers, undermines food sovereignty, and prioritizes industrial agriculture and extractive industries.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on a thorough analysis of World Bank programs from around the world, including case studies from Indonesia, Malawi, Madagascar, the Philippines, and Argentina,\u00a0<em>Climatewash<\/em>\u00a0documents how the Bank\u2019s interventions are already displacing communities and entrenching land inequality. The report debunks the Bank\u2019s climate action rhetoric. It details how the Bank\u2019s efforts to consolidate land for industrial agriculture, mining, and carbon offsetting directly contradict the recommendations of the IPCC, which emphasizes the protection of lands from conversion and overexploitation and promotes practices such as agroecology as crucial climate solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a blatant contradiction between the Bank\u2019s narrative of accessing land for climate action and its support for industrial agriculture, which is a major driver of climate change and biodiversity loss,\u201d said Andy Currier, Policy Analyst and co-author of the report. \u201cThe Bank\u2019s fresh offensive on land rights highlights an untenable position of the institution. It claims to support climate action while it stands by its core objective \u2013 catering to corporate and financial powers seeking more economic growth and profits,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE&#8212; April 30, 2025; 9:00 AM PDT Media Contact: Frederic Mousseau, fmousseau@oaklandinstitute.org, +1 510-512-5458 A new report exposes the exploitation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Under Guise of Climate Action, the World Bank Launches Fresh Offensive on Land Rights - 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