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At the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum in Paris, Australia launched a new International Partnership for Blue Carbon, according to a press release by Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt, a speaker at GLF 2015. Australia is joined by the governments of Indonesia and Costa Rica. The Partnership brings together governments, non-profit organisations, intergovernmental agencies, and scientists […]

A new report released on 9 December at the COP21 Paris Climate Conference, presents a scientifically validated process to assess the green credentials of products made from bamboo. It shows how items made from this versatile plant can be carbon-neutral – or even carbon-negative – over their lifecycle. This is a tool that producers can […]

Humans harvest a nearly incalculable amount of goods from natural resources. Every one of these commodities is available—for a price. But what about the services nature supplies? Conservation efforts are increasingly aligning themselves with the concept of placing monetary values on the benefits we get from ecosystems. The dominance of this line of thought can […]

By Thomas Hubert, originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News A holistic approach to sustainable land use adds an extra and important dimension to the global climate policy being shaped at COP21, speakers said at Sunday’s closing ceremony of the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum, held in Paris. The Forum brought together more than 3000 people from […]

By Frank Hajek, Executive Director, Nature Services Peru I came to my third Global Landscapes Forum (GLF15) to present a prototype ecosystem services transaction tool we are developing, but more importantly to gain new insights about how our company, Nature Services Peru, can work to make Peru a country where people live well, in harmony […]

Four years ago in Bonn, world leaders set a goal of restoring 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded lands by 2020. By the start of the UNFCCC COP21, commonly known as the Paris Climate Change Conference, 20 countries had pledged to restore a total of 60 million hectares, about the area of Spain and […]