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This year’s Global Landscapes Forum (5-6 December), on the sidelines of the climate change negotiations in Paris, was covered widely in the media. Besides the New York Times and The Guardian (see our story here), who covered the launch of the African landscape restoration initiative, mainstream media and specialised outlets featured aspects of the event. […]

No one kind of investment can hope to turn around environmental and social problems. Instead, we need to aim for a virtuous circle of sustainable investments, with solutions fertilizing more solutions. PARIS – Addressing the 5th Global Landscapes Forum, banker, businesswoman and philanthropist Ariane de Rothschild has called for combined charitable, profitable and public investment in […]

Meeting the world’s sustainability challenges depends on how we realize opportunities in the world’s landscapes. PARIS – Welcoming participants of the 5th Global Landscapes Forum, Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR – the Center for International Forestry Research – has called for a redoubling of investment in the “landscape economy” to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs). […]

One of the world’s largest producers of food products is widening the circle of corporate responsibility –pledging to peak carbon emissions all along the supply chain within a decade. ————- PARIS – The Chief Executive Officer of Danone, Mr Emmanuel Faber, has told the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum the company is assuming responsibility for cutting carbon emissions from […]

The Pecha Kucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) Night gave seven people the opportunity to tell their stories within a very tight timeframe of six minutes, using a maximum of 20 Powerpoint slides. Watch their stories below:

By Thomas Hubert, originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News With land use and livelihoods receiving unprecedented attention at the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, proponents of an integrated approach to managing land use might well be feeling endorsed. But, as speakers at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum in Paris warned today, achieving such sustainable land-use management […]