Watch the Youth’s Dragon Den Session from the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, Lima, Peru. Young people are not given many opportunities to discuss and debate integrated approaches to land use in their studies or workplaces. So CIFOR gave them a space to effectively contribute to innovative cross-cutting solutions to land use, […]
By Kate Evans, originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News Young people in forestry don’t want to be thought of as the ‘future’ but be involved in important discussions and listened to in the present, was the message from a youth session at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru. “I’m tired of hearing the young generation are the,” said […]
In two blogs from the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, the Justin Catanoso from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting featured the event in the National Geographic, portraying Unilever CEO Paul Polman and human rights activist Bianca Jagger. Catanoso praises Polman as “one of the greenest CEOs” who understands the challenges of climate change and […]
Feeding a growing population while curbing deforestation and tackling climate change will require fundamentally managing landscapes differently, said a top climate policy expert. On the need to take an integrated landscape approaches to sustainable development, “the science is now crystal-clear, [and] the economics are compelling,” said Rachel Kyte, the World Bank Group’s vice president and special […]
Deputy Executive Director of UNEP, Ibrahim Thiaw, speaks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach a new climate agreement […]
Journalist Simran Sethi delivers opening remarks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach a new climate agreement as successor […]
CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren delivers opening remarks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach a new climate agreement […]
Administrator and Under-Secretary-General of the UN, Helen Clark, speaks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach a new climate […]
CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman, speaks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach a new climate agreement as successor […]
President of WWF International, Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro, speaks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach a new climate agreement […]
Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin of the National High Court of Brazil speaks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach […]
Chairman of the National Coordinating body of Indigenous Peoples of Panama, Cándido Mezúa Salazar, speaks in this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are […]
Watch this opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru., during COP20 In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected to reach a new climate agreement as successor to the Kyoto Protocol. This panel […]
Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre, Tony Simons, delivers remarks on forest landscapes at the opening plenary from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals. At the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, international leaders are expected […]
Watch this high-level dialogue from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. Subsidies, taxes, tariffs and other fiscal and trade policy instruments have major direct and indirect effects on land use. This panel discusses the ways in which such economic instruments are currently shaping forests and agriculture. Moderator: […]
