Climate change

Dr. René Castro Salazar, the minister of environment and energy of Costa Rica, explains Costa Rica’s low carbon strategy including how they managed to increase their forest cover, how that affected tourism and how they will strive to further take advantage of their efforts.

View session details here This presentation by Timothy Thomas, IFPRI, shows the lessons learned from considering the Kenya data from “East African Agriculture and Climate Change” in developing a crop model and integrating the landscapes approach.

View session details here This presentation focuses on the complex influences on farmers in West Africa, the major challenges for them, scenarios for the future and shows some recommendations.

View session details here This presentation by Michal Zasada and Tadeusz Moskalik from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, focuses on why this kind of research is needed, the Polish institutions involved in this research, what carbon balance is, how CO2 streams can be estimated and what the ecological consequences of carbon […]

The Global Landscapes Forum, a 2-day event held on the sidelines of the UN climate change negotiations in Warsaw, was designed to inform the negotiations and design of global climate and development frameworks — specifically the post-Kyoto Protocol process and the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), respectively — about a “landscapes approach” to development. This […]

View session details here This presentation by Matthias Schwoerer, GIZ, teaches some lessons from the German NFP case: 1. Why started? 2. The different phases over time 3. The set-up in Germany 4. Strengths and weaknesses 5. Lessons learnt