Watch this Civil Society Session on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. In 2010, Peru committed to the UNFCCC in three points: zero deforestation by 2021, change in the energy matrix to reach 40 percent renewable energy and improved management of solid waste. This session shows the […]
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. The diversity of plants (specifically genetic resources), knowledge and partnerships play crucial roles for adaptation and resilience to climate change. Landscapes and communities also play an important part in sustaining genetically diverse native crops and trees […]
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. The world today faces the dilemma of having to balance a in increasing demand for natural resources and other services provided by ecosystems with a decreasing availability of these resources and ecosystem services. The challenge is […]
Watch this panel discussion from the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. Edwin Vasquez Coordinator of COICA, the coordinating body of the indigenous organizations of the Amazon basin Levi Sucre Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos e Bosques Dande Tavares Companhia de Desenvolvimento de Serviços Ambientais Peter Holmgren Director General, […]
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. This forum discusses the role of knowledge products and tools and how they are used by relevant stakeholders in achieving a more sustainable management of forests and forest resources at the landscape scale and within the […]
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. This discussion focused on REDD+ negotiations under UNFCCC, in particular the conservation of forest carbon stocks through avoiding deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. It demonstrates the application of safeguards for biodiversity and the rights […]
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. How can the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) catalyse policy and practice that enables ‘goal-scoring’ for forests and landscapes in a transformative, universal and integrated manner? This discussion forum reviews it’s progress and discusses the best way […]
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. The new report Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change by RRI and WRI is the most comprehensive analysis to date that links legal recognition and government protection of Indigenous Peoples and community forest rights with reductions in […]
This is how partners and sessions hosts of the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum in Lima featured the event: Building confidence in large-scale landscape restoration The enthusiastic launch of Initiative 20×20 last Sunday at the Global Landscape Forum (held alongside the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru) sent a clear signal that restoring degraded land is winning major support from […]
Originally published at SIANI The Swedish International Argricultural Network Initiative (SIANI) and EcoAdapt hosted a multi-stakeholder discussion event at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima. “Moving targets: challenges and opportunities for sustainability in “frontier” landscapes” debate focused on relative success stories of the landscape approach to governance, complemented by the views from mid- and high-level decision makers and […]
Global agreements on forests and climate change must safeguard the rights of indigenous peoples, said a Latin American indigenous leader who called for setting clear rules over development initiatives that affect the forests they live in. “At the global level, forests are where indigenous peoples are living,” said Cándido Mezúa Salazar, Chairman of the National […]
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 […]
