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Photo: Jarle Refsnes/Flickr The connection between the changing climate and the world’s forests will be a key theme at the Global Landscape Forum during the UNFCCC COP 20 in Lima on 6-7 December this year. Timely enough, new research now supports a link between climate change and forest fires. Climate change is expected to contribute to […]

Originally published at Thomson Reuters Sustainability The author Tim Christophersen is Senior Programme Officer, Forests and Climate Change, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP is a coordinating partner of the Global Landscapes Forum and just joined forces with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to reforest 150 million hectares of land – […]

                    Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is a passionate speaker on environmental issues and a supporter of CIFOR’s landscape approach. On September 25, Peru’s Minister of State for Environment and UNFCCC COP20 President will deliver a keynote address at the inaugural CGIAR Development Dialogues in New York. On December 6-7, his […]

    The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a partner of the Global Landscapes Forum, is participating in a Field Dialogue on Changing Outlooks for Food, Fuel, Fiber and Forests (4Fs) in Finland from 2-5 September. The WBCSD has recently visualized the pressure on forests world wide through increasing resources need. A sub-group of the Council brings together major […]

By Ilse Hennemann, Wageningen Are you engaged in the management of natural  resources for (agricultural) production purposes, or for conservation? Then you have most likely noticed that competition within the landscape over natural resources such as water, land, resources and even clean air has drastically increased. Stakeholder groups each depend on these natural resources in […]

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What if you inherited a piece of Central American forest from your elders and were faced with a choice of farming it or leaving the trees standing to store carbon and combat climate change? What if you didn’t have to choose between these options but could choose both at the same time? Luis García Barrios, […]

Since the late morning of Saturday 19th of July there is no doubt that forests are an integral part of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals designed by the United Nations Open Working Group. An innovative game now provides a platform to discuss how exactly forests can contribute to sustainable development – and what it is […]