Land, Trust, and Data: Climate Interventions Designed by Communities

Land, Trust, and Data: Climate Interventions Designed by Communities.

Date: 13 November 2026 (Friday)

Time: Türkiye Time: 16:45 PM – 18:15 PM (UTC+3)

Venue: Side Event Room 2 – Dalyan, COP31, Antalya, Türkiye.

Hosted by Change Initiative with FUNABO, Maleya Foundation and RFUK

Climate action increasingly runs through the land that feeds people. Carbon offsets, conservation zones and renewable energy projects are moving farmland, forest and fishing grounds out of the hands of the communities who work them, and nothing measures the loss. A new frontier of enclosure has opened as well: the data on soils, yields and seed now gathered from farms and held by those who aggregate it, not by the farmers who produce it.

This session asks what climate interventions look like when communities design them, own their data and give real consent. It will launch Change Initiative's new report, Natural Rights to Safe and Sufficient Food, which sets out three tools:

• a Carbon–Calorie Displacement Ratio for every land-based climate project

• community data trusts that give farmers joint ownership of agricultural data

• free, prior and informed consent as a firm condition of land-based climate finance

Speakers from frontline and Indigenous communities will join policy and finance voices to set out how trust is built and how land and data rights can be protected inside the climate agenda