Author: GLF Committee

Ademola Adenle, University of Oxford and John Morton, University of Greenwich The current and projected severe impacts of climate change in Africa make adaptation an urgent priority. While reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a vital task, the benefits will only emerge over time. Adaptation to the impacts of climate change is needed now as well […]

By Marianne Gadeberg. Originally published by the Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems. The ‘Global Landscape Forum – the Investment Case’ convened in London earlier this month with the aim of mitigating climate change and reducing poverty through investments in landscape restoration. Events like this one are desperately needed to ensure private-sector involvement in conservation […]

John Healey, Bangor University and Fritz Kleinschroth, Bangor University Large areas of tropical forest worldwide are used for selective logging which requires extensive road networks to access trees harvested for timber. It is well documented that building roads into intact forest can have consequences for forest ecosystems. This is because they lead to fragmentation and […]

A Q&A with Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Why hold a Global Landscapes Forum? We thought that one of the biggest gaps in the whole development discourse is, how do we find the finance that needs to be invested in fair and equitable ways to achieve all the […]

James Dyke, University of Southampton What is natural? What is artificial? It is often assumed that natural is better than artificial. Getting back to nature is something we should aspire to, with kids in particular not spending enough time in nature. But if you want to escape civilisation and head into the unaltered wilderness you […]

  By Leona Liu. Originally published by Forests News. This article is Part 2 of a two-part series covering the Global Landscapes Forum 2016 – The Investment Case. The aim of this one-day experts symposium was to accelerate investment in landscapes. Read Part 1 here. In addition to addressing climate finance, one of the main topics […]