Invitation video to the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, 6-7 December in Lima
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2014 Global Landscapes Forum: A summary and celebration
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Cándido Mezúa Salazar – Opening Keynote: Landscapes for climate and development
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Stephen Rumsey – Closing Keynote: Financing sustainable landscapes
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Paul Polman – Opening Keynote: Landscapes for climate and development
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Sir David King – Closing Keynote
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Shifting cultivation and forest landscapes in the Amazon
This presentation by Lars Løvold from the Rainforest Foundation Norway was given at a session titled “How indigenous peoples use landscapes approaches to conserve forests: Good practices and challenges for food security and livelihoods”. The panel focused on the roles and contributions of indigenous women in forest management. Also, experiences from REDD+ in Asia were shared, linking REDD+ with the land use of indigenous peoples.

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Conservation and Recovery of Native Seeds resistant to the Effects of Climate Change for Food Security
This presentation by Maria Josée Artist was given during the session “Ensuring free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in REDD+”. She aimed to analyze the existing FPIC guidelines for REDD+ projects and the challenges of extending them to aid organizations and private businesses that are interested in REDD+.

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Assessment of Options for land use in a post-2020 world
This presentation was given the session “Assessment of options for land use in a post-2020 world“ and it took stock of recent publications on land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), REDD+ and land-related CDM discussions in the UNFCCC. The presentation showed potential options for how the land sector might be included in a post-2020 ADP agreement, highlighting the relative strengths and weaknesses of those options.

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Large-scale land restoration: Creating the conditions for success
This collaborative presentation was given at a session of the same name which identified the technical, social and institutional conditions for developing successful long-term initiatives and explored how they can be sustained at regional and national levels. The findings and discussion will be used to further develop an emerging focus on land degradation of WLE and CIAT – and others that join.

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Ensuring Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in REDD+
This presentation by Grace Balawag was also given at the session “Ensuring free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in REDD+” that aimed to analyze the existing FPIC guidelines for REDD+ projects and the challenges of extending them to aid organizations and private businesses that are interested in REDD+.

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This photo loop on the different functions of landscapes was shown during the two days of the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, on the sidelines of the UN climate change negotiations. The photos are part of this year’s photo competition for which more than 250 photos related to landscapes, sustainability, biodiversity, food and people were submitted.

You can see the winners of the photo competition here

and take a look at all photos here

The audience choice of the photo competition was decided in two rounds of online voting and was announced on 16 December:

Valle del Rio Mantaro – Peru, by Herbert Renato Salas Portugal

This is what he says about his photo:

“In the Andean highlands, like Alto Cunas and the Rio Mantaro Valley in Peru, there are species of cactus and flowers of a subtle beauty. The winds and rains have brought pollutants such as lead from the smokestacks of the mining city La Oroya. Those pollutants, crossing hundreds of kilometers, are seriously compromising the ecosystems of the highlands.”

 

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Experts have urged governments, business and investors to act faster and think bigger in fighting climate change and promoting sustainable development – and they name finance, human rights and sustainable landscapes as the necessary artillery.

“We’re not yet acting at either the speed or the scale that the problem demands, but we can win this battle,” Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, said in a keynote address at the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, held in Lima this weekend.
 
“Business leaders recognize that the cost of inaction is rapidly becoming greater than the cost of action. … Left unchecked, climate change has the potential to become a significant barrier to our growth and that of every other sector,” he said.

Stephen Rumsey, chair of investment company Permian Global, also noted the shortfall.
 
“Only one percent of global income goes to philanthropy and only one percent of philanthropy goes to the environment. This is not enough to confront the biggest challenge mankind has ever had,” Rumsey said.

It is necessary “to think about the big picture here,” said Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
 
“It’s clear that the finance sector must step up if we are serious about the landscape approach,” he said. “We need to talk trillions, not billions.”

The landscape approach to land management aims to bring together all land-use sectors, such as agriculture, forestry, energy and fisheries, to find ways to ease pressure on the world’s resources, which are threatened by climate change.
 
Landscape approaches as a solution to the current climate and resource crises are a core theme of the Global Landscapes Forum, now in its second year, organized by CIFOR, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

More than 1700 people from 90 countries attended the event on the sidelines of the annual climate change summit, including country climate negotiators, ministers, CEOs, indigenous leaders, civil society leaders and researchers.

See Global Landscapes Forum video archive for footage from all keynote speeches and sessions

“Landscape does not have a one-size-fits all definition,” said Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
 
“But the reason why we believe the term is highly useful is that it indicates the key role of humans in shaping the land,” he said.

Commenting on calls for large new funding streams, Cándido Mezúa, Chairman of the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of Panama, said the “millions and trillions” of dollars, if they become available, must be shared fairly. He called for a climate finance mechanism beyond the Green Climate Fund that would protect forest communities and Indigenous Peoples.
 
“Indigenous Peoples want to have an indigenous territory climate fund, where all our rights will be respected and we will be able to follow through on our commitment to safeguard and protect the forest,” he said.

Polman was among the many speakers at the two-day conference referring to rights, acknowledging the damage that business practices have wreaked on indigenous people and forest communities. “For too long, their lives and livelihoods have been a hidden and unaccounted-for cost of the commodity expansion that has benefited the rest of us.”

Rachel Kyte, World Bank Vice President and special envoy on climate change, described the climate challenge as “fundamentally different” from anything known in human history, requiring very different solutions.
 
“We will have to fundamentally manage our landscapes differently to provide the nutrition for the people who will live on this planet. To provide the livelihoods and the sustenance to those people who live in the rural areas. To provide ourselves with the diversity of nature that we need to survive,” she said.

Helen Clark, UN Development Programme Administrator and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, said that “climate change is undermining any development gains made.”
 
Sustainable landscapes are essential for climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development overall, she added.
 
“It’s encouraging to see that key elements of sustainable landscapes feature among the 17 goals and 169 targets” contained within the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), she said.

The SDGs are a set of future international development targets, which world leaders are expected to finalize in late 2015.
 
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Peru’s Minister of Environment and President of COP20, the UN climate conference currently underway in Lima, expressed optimism that the talks would succeed in leading to the next international climate agreement in Paris in 2015.

Multifunctional landscapes and land uses are at the heart of the intertwined challenges associated with climate and development. The Global Landscapes Forum, held alongside the UN climate negotiations, creates a platform for positioning landscapes in the new international agreements on climate and sustainable development. The annual event brings together more than a thousand negotiators, world leaders, researchers, civil society leaders, business leaders, practitioners and policy makers in agriculture, forestry and development, funding organizations, and media, making it the largest, most influential event outside the UNFCCC COP.

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En el Foro Global sobre Paisajes se destacó que el financiamiento actual “no basta para enfrentar el mayor desafío en la historia la humanidad”.

Los expertos han instado a los gobiernos, las empresas y los inversionistas a actuar con mayor rapidez y pensar en mayor escala en el tema la lucha contra el cambio climático y la promoción del desarrollo sostenible, y señalan que el financiamiento, los derechos humanos y los paisajes sostenibles son la artillería necesaria para ese fin.

“Aún no estamos actuando con la velocidad o en la escala que exige este problema, pero podemos ganar esta batalla”, dijo Paul Polman, director ejecutivo de Unilever, en uno de los discursos principales del Foro Global sobre Paisajes 2014, celebrado en Lima este fin de semana.

“Los líderes empresariales reconocen que el costo de la inacción está superando rápidamente al costo de la acción. […] Si no se encara esta situación, el cambio climático tiene el potencial de convertirse en un importante obstáculo para nuestro crecimiento y el de todos los demás sectores”, dijo.

Stephen Rumsey, presidente de la compañía de inversión Permian Global, también destacó esta carencia.

“Solo el uno por ciento del ingreso mundial se destina a la filantropía, y solo el uno por ciento de [lo que va a] la filantropía es destinado al medio ambiente. Eso no basta para enfrentar el mayor desafío en la historia la humanidad”, dijo Rumsey.

Todos los discursos están disponibles en el archivo de vídeos, en inglés.

Es necesario “ver las cosas en perspectiva”, dijo Peter Holmgren, director general del Centro para la Investigación Forestal Internacional (CIFOR).

“Está claro que el sector financiero debe dar un paso adelante si queremos tomar en serio el enfoque de paisajes”, dijo. “Tenemos que hablar de billones, no de miles de millones”.

El enfoque de paisajes para la gestión del suelo tiene el objetivo de reunir a todos los sectores de uso del suelo, como la agricultura, la forestería, la energía y la pesca, para encontrar formas de aliviar la presión sobre los recursos del planeta, amenazados por el cambio climático.

Los enfoques de paisajes como una solución a las actuales crisis del clima y de los recursos son un tema central del Foro Global sobre Paisajes, ahora en su segunda edición, organizado por el CIFOR, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura. Más de 1.700 personas de 90 países asistieron al evento, realizado en el marco de la cumbre anual sobre cambio climático, entre ellos negociadores nacionales sobre el clima, ministros, directores ejecutivos de empresas, líderes indígenas, líderes de la sociedad civil e investigadores.

“Los paisajes no tienen una definición única”, dijo Ibrahim Thiaw, director ejecutivo adjunto del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente.

“Pero la razón por la que lo consideramos un término sumamente útil es porque indica el papel clave que tienen los seres humanos en la conformación del suelo”, añadió.

Al comentar sobre las demandas de mayores flujos de financiamiento, Cándido Mezúa, presidente de la Coordinadora Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas de Panamá, dijo que los “millones y billones de dólares”, si llegan a estar disponibles, deben ser compartidos de manera justa. Pidió [la creación de] un mecanismo de financiamiento para el clima, además del Fondo Verde para el Clima, que tendría el encargo de proteger a las comunidades forestales y pueblos indígenas.

“Los pueblos indígenas quieren contar con un fondo climático para territorios indígenas, donde se respeten todos nuestros derechos y seamos capaces de cumplir con nuestro compromiso de salvaguardar y proteger el bosque”, dijo.

Polman fue uno de los muchos oradores de la conferencia de dos días que hicieron referencia a los derechos, reconociendo los daños que las prácticas empresariales han causado a los pueblos indígenas y las comunidades forestales. “Durante mucho tiempo, sus vidas y medios de vida han sido un costo oculto, y no contabilizado, de la expansión de materias primas que ha beneficiado a los demás”.

Rachel Kyte, vicepresidenta del Banco Mundial y enviada especial sobre el cambio climático, describió el desafío del clima como algo “esencialmente distinto” de todo lo conocido en la historia humana, y que requiere soluciones también muy distintas.

“En lo fundamental, tendremos que gestionar nuestros paisajes de manera diferente para proporcionar la nutrición [necesaria] a las personas de este planeta. Para proporcionar medios de vida y sustento a quienes viven en zonas rurales. Para proporcionarnos a nosotros mismos la diversidad natural que requerimos para sobrevivir”, dijo.

Helen Clark, administradora del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo y subsecretaria general de las Naciones Unidas, dijo que “el cambio climático está minando todos los beneficios obtenidos deldesarrollo”.

Los paisajes sostenibles son esenciales para la adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático, y para el desarrollo sostenible en general, agregó.

“Es alentador ver que los elementos esenciales de los paisajes sostenibles están contenidos en los 17 objetivos y 169 metas” que figuran en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) propuestos, señaló. Los ODS son un conjunto de objetivos de desarrollo internacional a futuro, que se espera que los líderes mundiales finalicen antes de que termine 2015.

Manuel Pulgar Vidal, ministro del Ambiente del Perú y presidente de la COP20, la conferencia de la ONU sobre el clima que actualmente se desarrolla en Lima, expresó su optimismo acerca de que las conversaciones tendrían éxito en guiar el proceso hacia el próximo acuerdo internacional sobre el clima de París en 2015.

Los paisajes multifuncionales y los usos del suelo son el centro de los múltiples desafíos interrelacionados asociados con el clima y el desarrollo. El Foro Global sobre Paisajes, que se celebra a la par de las negociaciones climáticas de la ONU, crea una plataforma para el posicionamiento de los paisajes en los nuevos acuerdos internacionales sobre el clima y el desarrollo sostenible. Este evento anual reúne a más de un millar de negociadores; líderes mundiales; investigadores; líderes de la sociedad civil; líderes empresariales; profesionales y responsables de políticas en temas de agricultura, silvicultura y desarrollo; organizaciones de financiamiento; y medios de comunicación, lo que lo convierte en

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By Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR, originally published at the DG’s Blog

The UNFCCC COP20 in Lima is around the corner, and expectations are mounting again on how far the world’s countries are prepared to go in handling causes and effects of climate change. Lima is the last main stop en route to a new climate deal in Paris next year, following a high-profile UN Climate Summit in New York in September.

There are new reasons for optimism. We recently noted an opening move by US and China, while Norway remains a champion of the forest game. The EU is committing to substantial emission reductions. The Green Climate Fund is growing, and so is, seemingly, the political momentum.

At the same time, there are some clouds in the sky. Guarding local and indigenous people’s rights to forests can be outright dangerous. One major concern is that increasing demand for food affects the climate. Reconciling the world’s climate ambitions with the world’s development ambitions could also be better articulated.

It is against this backdrop that the second Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) will be held in Lima on 6-7 December. Presented in conjunction with the Government of Peru and coordinating partners UNEP and FAO, the Forum will be a science-based gathering that rivals any similar conference of the past few years. Among the 91 (!) institutions that will lead sessions and research launches at GLF, we share the vision that healthy landscapes are a crucial part of climate and development solutions, and we share the mission to exchange knowledge and experiences across regions, disciplines, scales and sectors….

My own expectation from this year’s GLF—indeed the thread that runs through the entire program—is that we will explore the “How?” In the past couple of years, the interest in integrated landscape solutions has grown fast. But we need more than interest and good will. We also need to see and understand how those landscape solutions are realized under widely different social, environmental and economic conditions.

…Finally, we are breaking new ground. The GLF represents a unique, even historic, fusion of disciplines, sectors and ambitions engaged in a sustainable future and committed to lowering fences and building bridges to work together.

See you in Lima!

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The Global Landscapes Forum 2014 is now carbon-neutral. The Swiss-based company South Pole Carbon has agreed to support an offset project for reforestation in Colombia to make up for the Forum’s CO2 emissions – for example from energy consumption at the event site in Lima or from participants’ flights. According to the Voluntary Carbon Market Survey 2014, South Pole Carbon is the leading developer of emission reduction projects. It has its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

The project is located in Manizales, capital of the Department of Caldas, in the central-western area of Colombia. This department is part of the Coffee-Growers region of the country, dominated by the scenic Nevado del Ruiz Glacier Mountains National Park, which has lost more than 36% of its ice cap since 1970 due to climate change.

The program’s activities involve ecological restoration through assisted natural regeneration and reforestation with both native and commercial timber tree species, agroforestry and a mixture of forest and pastures on an area of 4,540 hectares in its first phase. According to South Pole Carbon, the program will not only have an environment impact but also improve people’s livelihoods.

Read more about the carbon offsetting project here

The Director Forestry and Land Use of South Pole Carbon, Christian Dannecker, will speak at the Global Landscapes Forum session

Making the case for organic farming and for a low external input sustainable agriculture as climate-smart landscape solutions

El Foro Global sobre Paisajes 2014 es “carbono neutral”. La compañía South Pole Carbon se ha comprometido a apoyar un proyecto de reforestación en Colombia, para compensar las emisiones de CO2 del Foro – por ejemplo, del consumo de energía o de vuelos de los participantes. De acuerdo con la Encuesta de Mercado Voluntario de Carbono 2014, South Pole Carbon es el líder en el desarrollo de proyectos de reducción de emisiones. Tiene su sede en Zurich, Suiza.

El proyecto se encuentra en Manizales, capital del departamento de Caldas, en la zona centro-occidental de Colombia. Este departamento es parte de la región de cafeteros del país, dominada por el glaciar del Nevado del Ruiz del Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevados, que ha perdido más del 36% de su capa de hielo desde 1970 debido al cambio climático.

En su primera fase las actividades del programa involucran la restauración ecológica por ejemplo a través de la reforestación con especies de árboles nativas y para madera, la agroforestería y una mezcla de bosques y pastos en un área de 4.540 hectáreas. Según las informaciones de South Pole Carbon, el programa no sólo impactará favorablemente al medio ambiente, sino también mejorará los ingresos de la gente.

El director de Silvicultura y Uso del Suelo de South Pole Carbon, Christian Dannecker, asistirá al Foro Global sobre Paisajes y hablará durante la sesión:

En defensa de la agricultura orgánica y de una agricultura sostenible de bajos insumos externos como soluciones climáticamente inteligente para los paisajes

Para averiguar más sobre el proyecto, visite el sitio web página de South Pole Carbon

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