At last year’s Global Landscapes Forum, ministers from across Latin America launched Initiative 20×20, a historic commitment to initiate the restoration of 20 million hectares of degraded land by 2020. This year, ministers from four countries will make new commitments and an announcement of a new private-sector financing mechanism managed by the Inter-American Development Bank […]
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) will launch a new platform that makes the business case for investing in natural, or green, infrastructure and provides case studies and tools for business. Speakers include Neil Hawkins, Corporate Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer at Dow; and Brandy Wilson, Global Director Sustainability at CH2M.
A consortium of environmental organisations will release The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book, which explores how integrated landscape management can be an effective means of achieving sustainable development. The book brings together evidence from 25 case studies, dozens of examples, surveys of hundreds of integrated landscape initiative leaders, and expertise from some of the world’s leading […]
A public–private partnership in Indonesia will announce a major effort to protect the country’s peatlands—under threat from commercial agriculture, including activities behind this year’s forest fires—from destruction. Participants include climate officials from Indonesia’s national government, the Governor of South Sumatra, and the representative of a paper company operating in Indonesia.
Watch the launch of Indonesia’s national carbon accounting system (INCAS) on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. Indonesia has set itself an ambitious target: lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 41% by 2020. Now it has the powerful tool needed to keep track of its progress. High-level […]
Local authorities from Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia will announce the launch of an initiative by more than 125 municipal and regional governments across the Andes to protect their upstream water sources by conserving their forests. Funded by a dozen public and private sources, including the European Union, Swiss Re, DFID and more than a […]
Regional Pacific NGO Live & Learn will announce the commercial launch of a rainforest protection initiative designed to lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation that pays rural landowners to care for their forests. Speakers include indigenous participants and the representative of a Swedish business that helps companies offset their emissions through the initiative. […]
Developing countries are already financing the bulk of domestic land restoration efforts and cannot rely on international donors to fill the finance gaps, according to Nigerian economist and former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. “If we look at where the money for landscape restoration comes from now, according to a study by the New Climate Economic […]
Watch the Te Mau Aroha group from New Zealand perform at the high-level closing plenary session from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21.
Director General of Planning, Housing and Nature at the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Paul Delduc, speaks at the high-level closing plenary session from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The closing ceremony takes a closer look at some of the initiatives that emerged […]
Watch this Discussion Forum on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. Underway for almost a decade, REDD+ still has not yet reached the potential originally envisioned. This notwithstanding, it remains a leading policy and technical option for mitigating climate change within and beyond the forest sector. Building […]
Director General for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Peter Holmgren, speaks on behalf of the Forum organizers at the high-level closing plenary session from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The closing ceremony takes a closer look at some of the initiatives that emerged through […]
Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse, Mark Burrows, speaks at the high-level closing plenary session from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The closing ceremony takes a closer look at some of the initiatives that emerged through the Forum and offers […]
Costa Rican Minister of Agriculture, Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini, speaks at the high-level closing plenary session from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The closing ceremony takes a closer look at some of the initiatives that emerged through the Forum and offers a space for tracking progress […]
Secretary General for the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), Abdon Nababan, speaks at the high-level closing plenary session from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The closing ceremony takes a closer look at some of the initiatives that emerged through the Forum and offers a […]
