GLF-2015

Senior Director for Environment & Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank, Paula Caballero, speaks at the thematic high-level session on “Resilient landscapes to reduce fragility, conflict and migration” on the second day of the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum in Paris, France, alongside COP21. In this session, experts in landscape management explore how to position the […]

With more than 4095 votes, the photo Tree of life by Jaya Setiawan Gulo is the audience choice in the 2015 Global Landscapes photo competition, winning US$ 1000. The photo with the second most votes is Mana: the last Indian village and collected less half as many votes: 1990. More than 150 amateur and professional photographers participated in this year’s […]

By Thomas Hubert, originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News Local practices with the commons offer lessons for collectively managing “global commons” such as oceans and the sky. If neighboring villages can share pastures for the common good, why could the world’s nations not do the same with the atmosphere? With global challenges on climate and […]

Presentation by Mary Njenga, ICRAF, at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, Paris, December 2015.

Over 100 organizations contributed to the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, hosting discussions and press launches, presenting their work in pavilions and at side events. Also, environmental online platforms and specialised media outlets featured the Forum or certain aspects of it. The below gives an overview of how they reflected on the event on their website, […]

Originally posted at CIFOR The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is pleased to be a founding partner of theInternational Partnership for Blue Carbon, announced by the Australian Minister for the Environment,Greg Hunt, at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on 6 December. “It is an enormous opportunity, as has been recognized here, for […]