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Category: Measuring progress

The 25th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP 25) is held 2–13 December 2019 in Madrid under the Presidency of the Government of Chile. Melissa Kaye Angel, GLF

Participants of COP 25 on what they expect from the year’s pinnacle climate event

As COP 25 kicks off in Madrid, Landscape News talked youth, Indigenous women and scientists about their hopes and concerns for the U.N. climate conference.

 
Gonzalo Muñoz, 2019's High-Level Climate Action Champion, at COP 25 in Madrid. Melissa Kaye Angel, GLF

Broadening the circle: Climate champion Gonzalo Muñoz kicks off COP 25

Meet Gonzalo Muñoz, founder of South America's game-changing waste management company and first High-Level Climate Action Champion from the private sector.

 
Marja Abad, a conservationist on the Filipino island of Siargao, surfs the island's famous waves. Courtesy of Marja Abad

Blue belles: The surfer and the scuba diver

Part 1 of a photoessay series on the young, female water sport athletes working to clean and protect the Philippines’ waters.

 
Professional kiteboarder Paula Rosales got involved in conservation work after ocean pollution affected her health. Justin K. Davey

Blue belles: The freediver and the kiteboarder

Part 2 of a photoessay series on the young, female water sport athletes working to clean and protect the Philippines’ waters

 
The government of Luxembourg has invested EUR 1.9 billion in the revitalization of Belval. Tobias Mandt, Flickr

From industrial landscape to City of Science: A portrait of Belval

The collapse of the steel industry hit Luxembourg's Belval region hard. Now a €2 billion project seeks to revitalize it through research and innovation.

 
West Kalimantan tropical forest

What to think of California’s new Tropical Forest Standard

Tropical forests are vital to limiting global warming – and California's controversial Tropical Forest Standard aims at keeping them in place.

 
Diolo Celine plants Gnetum (okok) in a village in Cameroon. The GLF Accra focused on the importance of integrating agriculture and restoration. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

Integrating the many meanings of restoration, big and small

Linking local and global restoration efforts at day two of the Global Landscapes Forum Accra

 
Kennedy Kirui, co-founder of Kenya-based design-thinking firm Tanasuk Africa.

“What Silicon Valley does usually doesn’t work here”

Product designer Kennedy Kirui gives the lowdown on Africa’s burgeoning tech scene and how to use design thinking to achieve sustainable development.

 
A 2011 satellite photo of the divide between the Sahara and the Sahel and southern forests of Africa. NASA

As the Sahel dries, the Sahara advances

Here stands the Great Green Wall: Part 1

 
Vegetation in the Sahel region is composed of mainly stunted and scattered trees, shrubs, bushes and grasses. Daniel Tiveau, Flickr

Why trees could bring water back to the Sahel

Here stands the Great Green Wall: Part 2

 
Children in Africa. Daniel Tiveau, CIFOR

Will the Great Green Wall’s architecture support its future?

Part three of a Landscape News series on the Great Green Wall focuses on the future of the restoration initiative that could change the landscape of Africa.

 
A lone tree stands in the Sahara, whose encroachment on the Sahel has led to the desertification of lands and inspired the Great Green Wall. orientalizing, Flickr

Here stands the Great Green Wall

An in-depth look at the progress and holdbacks of Africa's Great Green Wall, one of history's most ambitious restoration efforts.

 
An orchid in Gunung Simpang, West Java, Indonesia. Yayan Indriatmoko, CIFOR

100 questions to prevent biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia

Scientists identify the top research questions needing answers in preventing biodiversity loss and aiding conservation in the region.

 
Schoolgirls in South Africa

Why the Day of Girls matters

On the International Day of the Girl Child, here’s why better childhoods mean better futures, for girls and for the world.

 
Molly Burhans

Molly Burhans on how to reduce the separation of church and Earth

Catholic cartographer Molly Burhans explains how she uses digital mapping to help the Church expand its conservation efforts.

 

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