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Marrakesh, Morocco On 16 November 2016, the fourth annual Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) once again brought together diverse stakeholders working in global landscapes. While the 2015 GLF event in Paris closed with promise due to newly agreed upon global climate and development commitments, 2016’s widespread social, environmental and political instability..Read More

London, England The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case in London on 6 June 2016 brought together experts from the financial services industry with leaders from the corporate sector, government and academia to take investments into sustainable landscapes to the next level. This second edition of the event offered a..Read More

Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) initiated the establishment of an independent organisation, the Belantara Foundation, that works to create an innovative new direct funding platform to protect rainforests. This funding mechanism channels both public and private sector finance direct to local communities and other actors implementing forest conservation projects…Read More

Australia, Indonesia, and Costa Rica, along with GRID-Arendal, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and Office of the Pacific Oceanscape Commissioner, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Global Change Institute, launched the Blue Carbon Initiative (with Conservation International, IUCN,..Read More

Paris, France The Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) is a youth-led and youth-targeted initiative that took place in Paris as part of the youth component of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) 2015. A total of 29 women and 21 men aged 18-35 from 31 countries came together to generate ideas..Read More

African ministers shared their experiences and results from implementing landscape-level initiatives in their countries at the Forum in Paris. Leaders from African countries announced a major new initiative to restore forests and agricultural lands. The AFR100 is a pan-African, country-led restoration effort to bring 100 million hectares of degraded landscapes..Read More