Climate change

Focusing on carbon alone not enough to tackle emissions, deforestation: development expert WARSAW, Poland (20 November 2013) — Indonesia’s mission to cut carbon emissions through avoided deforestation can offer lessons to the rest of the world, a top official in the country’s development unit said — not least because focusing on carbon alone often falls […]

Lesotho prince: ‘Evidence at hand points at a landscapes approach as being the renewed opportunity for mitigating and adapting to climate change’ WARSAW, Poland (19 November 2013) — Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso has declared the need for all-inclusive climate solutions as a matter of “urgency” for his “suffering” nation. Speaking recently to agricultural and […]

See more session details This presentation by Shahid Naeem from Columbia University focuses on the three central biodiversity issues: 1. Ecosystem services and biodiversity 2. Functional biodiversity and climate change 3. Bio-ecological adaptation

See more session details This presentation by Walther E. Baethgen asks and answers some of the most important questions concerning climate change: Adaptation to What? What Can We Expect? What Mitigation options are likely to succeed? Also it presents many interesting scenarios all related to climate change: for example how it would affect socioeconomics and […]

See more session details This presentation by the International Institute for Sustainability shows how the landscape approach can lead to reforestation of the Atlantic Rainforest.

The crucial role of equal rights and opportunities for men and women in a resilient and sustainable future for agriculture was brought up by various high-level speakers such as Rachel Kyte from the World Bank, while later being discussed during an informal ”Gender Café” and during the Forum Session ”linking gendered knowledge with gender-responsive action […]