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Join 2017 GLF Bonn
This year, December 19-20 at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany, the GLF will expand the discussion to a larger audience than ever before, and place communities at the center of the conversation. This event will challenge global influencers to react, expand, and — of course — scale-up actions…Read More
Jakarta, Indonesia The Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter thematic event provided a space for more than 400 peatlands stakeholders, policymakers, scientists, and private sector actors to convene in Jakarta on May 18, 2017, with thousands joining in online livestreams and discussions. The platform explored what it means to employ multi-directional…Read More
The Tropical Landscapes Financing Facility (TLFF) was launched at the Forum in Marrakesh. TLFF uses a novel structure, leveraging public funding to provide access to long-term finance at affordable rates to support smallholder producers, renewable energy production and other land users’ investment in sustainable Indonesian landscapes.
The Forum in Marrakesh saw the launch of an interactive atlas of Borneo developed by CIFOR and partners. The tool utilizes the Landsat archive to enable users to assess the level of company-driven deforestation or avoided deforestation of plantation companies with operations in Borneo. The map is currently limited to…Read More
The Global Peatlands Initiative, launched at the Forum in Marrakesh, is a new UN Environment- led multi-partner effort to save one of the world’s largest carbon stocks. The Global Peatlands Initiative aims to scale up the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of peatlands in countries with significant peat deposits delivering…Read More
The Africa Palm Oil Initiative (APOI) brought together nine Central and West African governments, as well as the private sector, civil society and indigenous and local peoples groups, in a commitment to make this key industry sustainable and responsible. The initiative was launched at an important moment in the development…Read More
Marrakesh, Morocco On 16 November 2016, the fourth annual Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) once again brought together diverse stakeholders working in global landscapes. While the 2015 GLF event in Paris closed with promise due to newly agreed upon global climate and development commitments, 2016’s widespread social, environmental and political instability…Read More
London, England The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case in London on 6 June 2016 brought together experts from the financial services industry with leaders from the corporate sector, government and academia to take investments into sustainable landscapes to the next level. This second edition of the event offered a…Read More
Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) initiated the establishment of an independent organisation, the Belantara Foundation, that works to create an innovative new direct funding platform to protect rainforests. This funding mechanism channels both public and private sector finance direct to local communities and other actors implementing forest conservation projects.…Read More
Australia, Indonesia, and Costa Rica, along with GRID-Arendal, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and Office of the Pacific Oceanscape Commissioner, the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Global Change Institute, launched the Blue Carbon Initiative (with Conservation International, IUCN,…Read More
Paris, France The Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) is a youth-led and youth-targeted initiative that took place in Paris as part of the youth component of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) 2015. A total of 29 women and 21 men aged 18-35 from 31 countries came together to generate ideas…Read More
African ministers shared their experiences and results from implementing landscape-level initiatives in their countries at the Forum in Paris. Leaders from African countries announced 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…Read More
The Indonesian National Carbon Accounting System (INCAS) is a platform for greenhouse gas accounting for the land-based sectors in Indonesia. During the 2015 GLF Event in Paris, The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry research, Development and Innovation Agency released the first national level results from the INCAS; a complete…Read More
Paris, France As delegates at UNFCCC COP21 hashed out a new climate deal and debated how best to meet the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), more than 3,200 scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders from forestry, agriculture, water, energy, law and finance sectors came together for the third annual Global Landscapes Forum…Read More
London, EnglandThe Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case — convened at the Royal Society in London on 10–11 June 2015 — brought together 220 experts on public and private finance, representatives from the corporate sector, senior government officials, and leading thinkers from research and civil society. The invitation-only expert symposium…Read More
Representatives of International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the World Resources Institute (WRI), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), and Permian Global met in Colombia to kick-start the implementation of the 20×20 land restoration initiative. The Initiative itself was…Read More
Lima, Peru The 2014 event built on the successful inaugural Forum in Warsaw and focused on introducing the landscape approach to a broad audience of world leaders, climate negotiators, researchers and representatives of civil society, the private sector and media. Discussions focused on the four key considerations central to putting…Read More
The first ever Global Landscapes Forum — a successor to Forest Day and Agriculture and Rural Development Day — succeeded in bringing together and connecting stakeholders from different land-use sectors such as forestry, agriculture, and water management, facilitating cross-sectoral dialogue in a way rarely seen before. This two-day event, held…Read More
