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By Janna De La Paz, originally published on IFPRI’s blog The U.N. Marrakesh Climate Change Conference, also known as the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22), will be held in Morocco Nov. 7-18 with the theme “Africa, Adaptation and Agriculture.” This year’s meeting will focus on countries turning their pledges into specific objectives and strategies […]

CIFOR scientists discuss the main issues related to gender and climate change in the lead-up to COP22 in Marrakesh. Are women considered in climate policy? How is gender understood in global climate commitments? CIFOR will be talking gender in Marrakesh at a number of events, including the Global Landscapes Forum on 16 November.

By Stephen Leonard and Suzanna Dayne, originally published on Forests News At the COP21 in Paris last year, 195 countries reached an historic agreement – the first ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. Yet while each country made emission-cutting pledges, the pledges remain on the whole inadequate to date, potentially putting the world on a […]

By Terry Sunderland and James Reed, originally published on Forests News With landscapes integral to achieving global climate and development goals, action points to operationalize the landscape approach are needed. What are integrated landscape approaches and how do we put them in practice on the ground? These questions – important when considering sustainable land-use management […]

Increasing numbers of governments, foundations, NGOs, and companies are looking to jurisdictional scale approaches as ways to help deliver sustainable and deforestation-free agricultural commodities. Jurisdictional approaches to zero-deforestation commodities (JA-ZDCs) lie at the intersection of three existing strategies to reduce forest loss and degradation, along with improving the health and sustainability of rural and frontier […]