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Regional Pacific NGO Live & Learn will announce the commercial launch of a rainforest protection initiative designed to lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation that pays rural landowners to care for their forests. Speakers include indigenous participants and the representative of a Swedish business that helps companies offset their emissions through the initiative.<\/p>\n

The Nakau Programme is a socially responsible approach to REDD+ and is the first of its kind to emerge from highly vulnerable Small Island Developing States. It takes an ethical, community-based approach and has a combined focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation.<\/p>\n","date":"20151205","time":"12.15- 13.00","contact":"","organization":[{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/logo-nakau.png","name":"Nakau","link":"http:\/\/www.nakau.org\/"},{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/LOGOwTagline-small.png","name":"Plan Vivo Foundation","link":"http:\/\/www.planvivo.org\/"},{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/LL-international-small1.png","name":"LIVE & LEARN","link":"http:\/\/www.livelearn.org\/"},{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/zero_logo-small.png","name":"Zero Mission","link":"http:\/\/www.zeromission.se\/en\/"}],"pdf":[{"cover":false,"title":"Fact sheet: Nakau Programme Brochure","file":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/Nakau-Programme-Brochure-B1.pdf"}],"speakers":[{"ID":16398,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-24 16:53:53","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-24 09:53:53","post_content":"","post_title":"Glarinda Andre","post_excerpt":"Coordinator, Live&Learn project, Nakau Programme REDD+","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"glarinda-andre","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-24 16:54:57","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-24 09:54:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16398","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16396,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-24 16:45:32","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-24 09:45:32","post_content":"","post_title":"Matteo Bigoni","post_excerpt":"Program Manager, Plan Vivo Foundation","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"matteo-bigoni","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-24 16:45:32","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-24 09:45:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16396","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16393,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-24 16:40:15","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-24 09:40:15","post_content":"","post_title":"Robbie Henderson","post_excerpt":"Co-Director, Nakau Programme","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"robbie-henderson","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-24 16:40:15","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-24 09:40:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16393","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16405,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-24 17:03:26","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-24 10:03:26","post_content":"","post_title":"Claire Wigg","post_excerpt":"Carbon offsetting specialist, Zero Mission","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"claire-wigg","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-24 17:45:56","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-24 10:45:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16405","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"title":"The Indonesian National Carbon Accounting System (INCAS) \u2013 monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from land-based sectors, realizing REDD+","description":"

Indonesia has set itself an ambitious target: lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 41% by 2020. Now it has the powerful tool needed to keep track of its progress.<\/p>\n

Environment ministers from Indonesia and Australia will launch a new system for tracking efforts to protect and restore forests and peatlands in Indonesia. Dr. Ir. Siti Nurbaya, Indonesian Minister for Environment and Forestry, and The Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Australian Minister for the Environment, will speak, among others.<\/p>\n

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Australia\u2019s Minister for the Environment will launch a Private Sector Roundtable to facilitate ongoing private sector involvement in the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Recovery Plan, a forest protection effort in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

The launch will also include details of the second Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, to be held in 2016.<\/p>\n","date":"20151205","time":"16.15 - 17.00","contact":"","organization":[{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/logo-australian-government1.png","name":"Australian Govt","link":"https:\/\/www.environment.gov.au\/"}],"pdf":false,"speakers":[{"ID":16561,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-26 10:00:38","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-26 03:00:38","post_content":"","post_title":"Minister Dato Bahrin","post_excerpt":"Minister of Development of Brunei Darussalam","post_status":"draft","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"minister-dato-bahrin","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-30 12:13:12","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-30 05:13:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16561","menu_order":16,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":15677,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-12 14:26:13","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-12 07:26:13","post_content":"","post_title":"Minister Greg Hunt","post_excerpt":"Minister for the Environment, Australia","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"minister-greg-hunt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-12-07 11:52:37","post_modified_gmt":"2015-12-07 04:52:37","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=15677","menu_order":4,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16563,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-26 10:03:35","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-26 03:03:35","post_content":"","post_title":"Minister Douglas Tomuriesa","post_excerpt":"Minister for Forests of Papua New Guinea","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"minister-douglas-tomuriesa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-26 10:03:35","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-26 03:03:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16563","menu_order":16,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16046,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-19 12:03:48","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-19 05:03:48","post_content":"","post_title":"Aida Greenbury","post_excerpt":"Managing Director Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement, Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP)","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"aida-greenbury","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-19 16:07:58","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-19 09:07:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16046","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":187,"post_author":"2049","post_date":"2015-05-05 10:18:39","post_date_gmt":"2015-05-05 10:18:39","post_content":"","post_title":"Peter Holmgren","post_excerpt":"Director General,
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At last year\u2019s Global Landscapes Forum, ministers from across Latin America launched Initiative 20\u00d720, a historic commitment to initiate the restoration of 20 million hectares of degraded land by 2020.<\/p>\n

This year, ministers from four countries will make new commitments and an announcement of a new private-sector financing mechanism managed by the Inter-American Development Bank will be made.<\/p>\n","date":"20151205","time":"17.15 - 18.00","contact":"","organization":[{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/wri.png","name":"WRI","link":"http:\/\/www.wri.org\/"},{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/CIAT-logo.png","name":"CIAT","link":"https:\/\/ciat.cgiar.org\/"},{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/11\/bioversity_international-small.png","name":"Bioversity 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Eight ministers of agriculture from across Central America and the Caribbean will announce an unprecedented joint effort to pool resources against the threat of climate change.<\/p>\n

Costa Rica\u2019s Agriculture Minister Arauz will bring together his regional counterparts and partners from research to set out the next steps.<\/p>\n","date":"20151205","time":"18.00 - 18.45","contact":"","organization":[{"logo":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/09\/CATIE-Logo1.png","name":"CATIE","link":"http:\/\/www.catie.org\/"}],"pdf":false,"speakers":[{"ID":249,"post_author":"1875","post_date":"2015-08-03 03:45:34","post_date_gmt":"2015-08-02 20:45:34","post_content":"

Luis Felipe Arauz is the Minister of Agriculture of Costa Rica. He earned his doctorate in plant pathology from NC State in 1990. Until May 2014, he was a professor of Plant Pathology and Agroecology at the University of Costa Rica and Dean of its College of Agricultural and Food Sciences. Costa Rica has raised its forest cover restoration goals from 22% to 52% - based on innovative policy reforms that aggressively tackle deforestation. The country also introduced the world\u2019s first payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme. Currently, Costa Rica is committed to restoring 500,000 hectares of degraded lands\u2013 around 10% of the country\u2019s total land area.<\/p>","post_title":"Minister Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini","post_excerpt":"Minister of Agriculture, Costa Rica","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"minister-luis-felipe-arauz-cavallini","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-12-07 11:49:32","post_modified_gmt":"2015-12-07 04:49:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=249","menu_order":6,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":14545,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-10-13 08:28:19","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-13 01:28:19","post_content":"","post_title":"Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Campos Arce","post_excerpt":"Director General, CATIE\r\n","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"jose-joaquin-campos-arce","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-29 18:44:50","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-29 11:44:50","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=14545","menu_order":16,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":16653,"post_author":"2069","post_date":"2015-11-26 20:13:34","post_date_gmt":"2015-11-26 13:13:34","post_content":"","post_title":"Ann Tutweiler","post_excerpt":"Director General, Bioversity International","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ann-tutweiler","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2015-11-26 20:13:34","post_modified_gmt":"2015-11-26 13:13:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&p=16653","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},{"title":"Launch of two major African landscape initiatives:","description":"

AFR100: Restoring 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes in Africa by 2030 and Africa Resilient Landscape Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n

African ministers will share their experiences and results from implementing landscape-level initiatives in their countries. An international perspective on resilient landscapes will be given by WRI and the World Bank.<\/p>\n

This assessment will be followed by an announcement of commitments by African leaders in terms of the numbers of hectares covered and households supported by the Resilient Landscape Initiative.<\/p>\n

Leaders from African countries will also announce 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 in Africa under restoration by 2030.<\/p>\n

The launch event will feature a number of African government ministers as well as prominent representatives from development banks, bilateral donors and impact investors, who will announce financial support for investments in restoration activities in African landscapes.<\/p>\n

See also:<\/p>\n