Globally, more than 1 billion hectares are required for land-based climate solutions, such as nature-based solutions, conservation, regenerative agriculture, and renewable energy projects. These shifts in land use pose significant challenges to land tenure security, particularly for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), women, pastoralists, agricultural tenants, and urban slum dwellers. Climate narratives and solutions led by the Global North often clash with the nuanced realities of local land governance in the Global South. However, the South with a country specific initiatives is increasingly demonstrating decentralised and democratised initiatives around land administration, centring IPLC resource governance systems to build climate resilience.