GLF-2015

National and subnational ministers, corporate leaders and officials will announce commitments to the Bonn Challenge, representing a major leap towards achieving the goal of having 150 million hectares under restoration by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030. These officials will also highlight the progress already being made and tools that have been developed to […]

After a wave of commitments and pledges to remove deforestation from company supply chains, how successful have businesses been in implementing these goals? CDP will launch a new report, “Realizing zero-deforestation: Transforming supply chains for the future”, which presents important new findings on how over 170 of the world’s largest companies, including Asia Pulp & […]

Eight ministers of agriculture from across Central America and the Caribbean will announce an unprecedented joint effort to pool resources against the threat of climate change. Costa Rica’s Agriculture Minister Arauz will bring together his regional counterparts and partners from research to set out the next steps.

At last year’s Global Landscapes Forum, ministers from across Latin America launched Initiative 20×20, a historic commitment to initiate the restoration of 20 million hectares of degraded land by 2020. This year, ministers from four countries will make new commitments and an announcement of a new private-sector financing mechanism managed by the Inter-American Development Bank […]

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) will launch a new platform that makes the business case for investing in natural, or green, infrastructure and provides case studies and tools for business. Speakers include Neil Hawkins, Corporate Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer at Dow; and Brandy Wilson, Global Director Sustainability at CH2M.

A consortium of environmental organisations will release The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book, which explores how integrated landscape management can be an effective means of achieving sustainable development. The book brings together evidence from 25 case studies, dozens of examples, surveys of hundreds of integrated landscape initiative leaders, and expertise from some of the world’s leading […]