GLF 2015 Paris – Themes

Originally posted on the blog of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) This blog links to a session at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (5-6, December in Paris): This Land is Our Land: Gender perspectives on tenure and rights. Moving beyond “zombie statistics”: land restoration and gender issues CGIAR has pledged […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News blog By Laura Dattaro New York – A year ago, the New York Declaration on Forests set a daring goal: a world without deforestation. But it didn’t lay out a plan for how to get there. The agreement – to cut deforestation in half by 2020, and eliminate it […]

Originally posted on the World Resources Institutes’ blog. By Peter Hazlewood and Mathilde Bouyé The unveiling of the Sustainable Development Goals last week were a milestone moment for our collective future. On September 25, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders joined together at a UN Summit meeting in New York to formally adopt Transforming Our […]

Paula Caballero, a World Bank director and speaker at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, congratulates the inclusion of a focus on the world’s ocean in the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals: At this week’s UN Sustainable Development Summit, the world’s oceans will be getting the attention they have long deserved — but not always received. They […]

By Josh Gregory, Global Canopy Program Current methods to tackle deforestation aren’t working. The statement may be blunt but, with 6.6 million hectares of natural forest lost since 2010, it’s hard to dispute. Understanding current methods of forest protection The most common protection measure is command and control: governments restrict forest access and use by […]

The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, convened at the Royal Society in London on 10–11 June 2015, brought together 220 experts on public and private finance, representatives from the corporate sector, senior government officials, and leading thinkers from research and civil society. The invitation-only expert symposium sought to overcome barriers to sustainable landscape investments […]