LEI are attending the World Bank’s Annual Land Conference, 13-17 May 2024

In just a few days the World Bank’s newly relaunched Annual Land Conference will commence in Washington DC! The 2024 Conference, which has the theme Securing Land Tenure and Access for Climate Action, aims to highlight effective strategies for securing land tenure and access in support of climate change mitigation and adaption.

LEI’s team of experts will be very active at this year’s Conference, with Managing Director, Kate Rickersey, founding Director Tony Burns, and Senior Legal and Land Specialist, Renée Chartres in attendance. They are looking forward to meeting with land sector friends and colleagues. If you haven’t already, please do reach out to the LEI team to arrange a meeting – the best email to reach them on is home@landequity.com.au or feel free to send a LinkedIn message.  LEI will also be part of the Tetra Tech booth throughout the conference.

In addition Kate, Tony and Renée will present in five different sessions throughout the Conference:

• G10: How Land Administration Standards Empower People, Environment, and Economic Progress
  On MONDAY 13 May at 1pm in room MC C2-350 Kate and Tony will provide a walkthrough of the MCC Land Records and Transaction Systems (LRTS) Toolkit and discussion on the role of such tools in promoting fit-for-purpose standards adoption.

• T31: Managing Access to Land for Infrastructure
  Join Renée on WEDNESDAY 15 May in room MC 4-800 from 11am as she discusses the World Bank’s Access to Land for Renewable Energy project in Bangladesh, as part of the launch of the World Bank Guidance Note on Access to Land in SAR. This session will discuss the role that access to land plays in enabling countries to achieve their climate action pledges.

• T18: Negotiating Trade-offs Between Intersecting Climate and Land Actions
  Later in the day on WEDNESDAY 15 May in room MC 2-800 at 4pm, Renée will join a panel of experts to explore the operational complexities of implementing just and equitable land administration transitions. The session will illustrate diverse interventions to identify lessons in both policy and practice for enabling a fair and equitable sharing of costs and benefits to achieve both just land administration and locally responsible climate action.

• T20: Invest in Land or Invest in People? Transforming Investment Models for Agrifood Systems Transitions
  At the same time – also on WEDNESDAY 15 May in room MC C2-350 at 4pm, Kate will join the Transformative Land Investments (TLI) and Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) teams to explore project and investor results that catalyze global change and link responsible and informative investments to land, climate and sustainable food system goals. With a diverse panel of speakers in implementing roles the session will delve into examples, constraints and opportunities for scaling key policies and investor initiatives and approaches.

• G04: Women’s Land Rights as a Foundation for Sustainable Climate Action
  On THURSDAY 16 May in room MC 2-800 from 9am, Renée will join the Stand for Her Land team to present the Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) newly released report Outlook on Land and Gender in the Mekong Region at the end of the session.