This week focus: Finance
This year, the GLF called for far more ambitious climate action, including restoring forests and drylands, revamping our global food systems, and drastically ramping up sustainable investments. We also challenged innovators from around the world to restore the disappearing Aral Sea using disruptive technologies.
Global Disruptive Tech Challenge 2021: Restoring Landscapes in the Aral Sea Region
The Global Disruptive Tech Challenge 2021 awarded four winning innovators out of 159 proposals from 38 countries to restore Central Asia’s shrinking Aral Sea using disruptive technologies.
GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance – Frontiers of Change
Hosted digitally and in Glasgow alongside COP26, the GLF Climate hybrid conference called for ambitious, concrete action to stop the climate crisis through three key solutions: forests, food and finance.
This year, the GLF marked the launch of the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration with a series of events focused on protecting and restoring the world’s forests and drylands. We also launched the second edition of the Restoration Stewards program and continued to grow our network of local GLF chapters.
Generation Restoration Film Festival Panel
Award-winning filmmakers, experts and restoration enthusiasts share the experiences that moved them to action and stories behind the films at the Generation Restoration Film Festival.
GLF Africa
The GLF Africa digital conference issued a rallying cry to restore Africa’s drylands to stave off the threats of drought, hunger and mass migration due to climate change.
As commodity prices and hunger soar as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our food systems are looking increasingly shaky. In 2021, the GLF has continued to push for more sustainable ways to feed the world’s growing population, including hosting the launch of the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Program.
Food. Nature. People. digital forum
This digital event hosted by CIFOR–ICRAF explored solutions to create more diverse, sustainable and equitable food systems to provide healthy and nutritious diets for everyone.
FOLUR: How to grow greener food
At GLF Climate, the World Bank, Global Environment Facility and partners launched the FOLUR Impact Program, seeking to transform food and land use systems.
Indigenous peoples and local communities have stewarded the Earth for thousands of years, yet they now face a barrage of challenges including violence, dispossession, climate change and COVID-19. In 2021, the GLF continued to advocate for the protection of Indigenous and local rights to land and resources, which were key themes at our conferences on the African Sahel, the Amazon rainforest and climate justice alongside COP26.
Whose Land is It Anyways? An Intergenerational Dialogue Exploring Solutions to Land Tenure Challenges
Hosted digitally and in Glasgow alongside COP26, the GLF Climate hybrid conference called for ambitious, concrete action to stop the climate crisis through three key solutions: forests, food and finance.
GLF Amazonia
The GLF Amazonia digital conference put forth one clear message: we must protect the Amazon to ensure humanity’s survival on this planet.
Galina Angarova: What Indigenous people can teach us | #GLFClimate 2021 Must-see Speakers
Indigenous peoples have sustainably managed the Earth for thousands of years. So, why are their voices not being heard? It’s time for world leaders to start taking Indigenous rights seriously, says Galina Angarova, executive director of Cultural Survival.
As climate change poses ever greater risks to the global economy, the field of sustainable finance is growing faster than ever. The GLF marked a crucial year for sustainable investing by holding its 5th Investment Case Symposium at COP26, as well as launching a new partnership with the Government of Luxembourg to promote investments in sustainable land use and nature-based solutions.
Rethinking Supply Chains: Transforming business practices to enable ecosystem restoration
Hosted digitally and in Glasgow alongside COP26, the GLF Climate hybrid conference called for ambitious, concrete action to stop the climate crisis through three key solutions: forests, food and finance.
Luxembourg-GLF Finance for Nature Platform
The GLF has joined forces with the Government of Luxembourg to launch a new platform to promote investments in sustainable land use and natural climate solutions.
Greening Finance & Financing Green
The opening plenary of the 5th GLF Investment Case Symposium explores the opportunities and challenges for a holistic approach to boosting finance for nature.
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Sustainable finance 101: How to mobilize funds for the planet
All the ins and outs of sustainable investing
The Amazon rainforest is nearing its tipping point – but what does that mean?
Unraveling the complex equation of deforestation, warming and fires pushing the rainforest to its brink
When home is stolen: stories from the frontlines of climate migration
Increasing numbers of people are forced into migration from climate change – but lack legal protection as refugees
What is needed to safeguard food from future pandemics?
Lessons from COVID-19 ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit
16 Women Restoring the Earth
Raising up female leaders defining the future of our planet through their ideas, talents, actions and inspiration
The missing piece of new biodiversity goals? Managed landscapes
Scientists and policymakers stress importance of targeting agricultural landscapes in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
A boom in satellite technology is revolutionizing the way we see the Earth
And the data is opening new doors for landscape management and restoration
Can soil inoculation accelerate carbon sequestration in forests?
Newly popular field of soil microbiome restoration research offers hope
Pakistan is on its way to planting 10 billion trees. Here’s how
The massive initiative could pilot a new financial mechanism – and set an example for other developing countries
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Landscape TV: What is sustainable finance?
Greening Finance & Financing Green
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Generation Restoration Film Festival Panel
Positive Tipping Points for Transformative Change
Webinar on the Global Disruptive Tech Challenge 2021: Restoring landscapes in the Aral Sea
Landscape TV: Could Amazon deforestation trigger a climate tipping point?
FLR Digital Forum: How restoration can support a healthy climate, economy and planet
“Science is there, but it has to reach the people.”
Inspirational video by Mordecai Ogada
FOLUR: How to grow greener food
Drylands - what, where and why should we care?
7 Pathways to live in harmony with nature
Landscape TV: How Africa’s Great Green Wall will make the Sahel green again
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Nature-Based Solutions – How Restoration Can Support a Healthy Climate, Economy and Planet
On 29 April 2021, the Global Landscapes Forum held a digital forum on restoration hosted jointly by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR).
GLF Amazonia 2021: Outcome Statement (ES/PT/ENG)
Amazonia, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, is one of the most culturally and biologically diverse regions on Earth. Yet this vibrant territory where multiple actors, livelihoods, and ideas coexist, compete and cooperate, is reaching a tipping point.
GLF Africa 2021: Outcome Statement (EN/FR)
Multinationals are increasingly harnessing nature to reach green goals, but it can be a tricky business
Meeting Land Tenure Needs of Pastoralists Key to Restoring Rangelands
In all landscapes, land tenure, land use practices and restoration progress are closely interlinked.
Restoration Education: A Call to Collective Action
A diversity of practitioners, youth, policymakers, educators, capacity developers and others from across Africa and beyond gathered on 3 June 2021
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What is needed to safeguard food from future pandemics? Watch to see 
pathways that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)recommends to address our global food system’s persistent deficiencies.
Discover all the facts here: bit.ly/safeguardfood
#ThinkLandscape
Drylands are diverse, complex and vital ecosystems, yet they are often misunderstood.
Here are 5 common myths that surround them, and the facts that debunk them:
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📢 Application Call: Restoration Stewards Program 2022!
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If you are working on restoring the planet, or do you know someone who does, this is an opportunity for you! 💚 Rise and become one of the Five Restoration Stewards whose projects would be earmarked for financial support, further training and mentorship. Go to the link in our bio to learn more!
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#GenerationRestoration #ThinkLandscape
Renata Koch Alvarenga is a young eco-feminist using storytelling to change climate policy! She’s the founder of EmpoderaClima, a multilingual educational platform that spreads global awareness of the linkages between #genderpolicy and #climatejustice to Latin American and Caribbean youth.
Since childhood, activism has ran deep in her family. Intergenerational knowledge and Indigenous culture play a powerful role in her work, with the use of storytelling as a tool to avoid historical amnesia. Renata unearths stories of how marginalized women are directly impacted by climate change, to inform policy and action.
➡️ Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3xWlN0j
#GLFClimate Must-see Speakers: @SadhguruJV on how to heal the Earth 
@ishafoundation founder Sadhguru sits down with @BBCOne host @petetong to discuss why we can’t bring the Earth’s degraded lands back to life without restoring the soil.
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Africa's Great Green wall has entered a new phase with partners pledging USD 16.85 billion for the project!
80 percent of the region’s population heavily relies on rain-fed agriculture for work, but 65 percent of the land has been degraded due to climate change, over-farming and unsustainable land management practices.
In the past 30 years, this has intensified food insecurity and hopelessness among millions of jobless rural youth, triggering dangerous migrations and growing the ranks of radical groups.
“That’s why, if we get this right, we can tip the whole future of the region,” says Louise Baker from United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Read more: https://bit.ly/3t2Jimr
What’s being said at #COP26Glasgow? Here are some powerful quotes from the past days.
We have to hold our leaders and negotiators accountable.
At #GLFClimate, we’ll be tackling these commitments at the COP and addressing the REAL obstacles and barriers to progress.
Hear from scientists and experts, representatives from Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities, youth and women’s voices, and more. If we dream for change, these voices need a seat at the table.
🌐 Register now through the link in bio!
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“#ClimateAction without #ClimateJustice, without [recognition of] loss and damage [to countries as a result of climate change], without proper #ClimateFinance is just not plausible.
“It’s morally wrong and technically bankrupt.”
💬 Danny Sriskandarajah, Chief Executive at @oxfamgb
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GLF has partnered with @scidevnet to bring you the latest news from #COP26.
🌐 Read more at https://news.globallandscapesforum.org
"Our health is directly connected to what we eat, and everything starts in the soil. If the soil isn't healthy and depleted of nutrients, so is our food."
- UN Environment Programme Global Goodwill Ambassador Gisele Bündchen
#GenerationRestoration #GLFClimate #ThinkLandscape
How can we make the #climatejustice movement accessible to all?
Listen to this discussion between Joycelyn Longdon from @climateincolour and @june_kimaiyo from the Youth In Landscapes Initiative on what climate justice really means, and how everyone, everywhere can support this movement especially as thousands from around the world come together at #cop26, while many others are left behind.
Indigenous leaders share guiding principles needed to ensure that forest conservation finance from the public & private sector is distributed equitably and directly to forest communities. #GLFClimate #ThinkLandscape #COP26
It is our voice for the life of the forest! ✊🌳
TOMORROW, join @jazz__mota and many other amazing advocates for the Amazon, scientists, artists, and much more! Stand up for the Amazon at #GLFAmazonia 💚
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GLF CLIMATE HYBRID CONFERENCE
ALONGSIDE COP27
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
GLF ASIA
August 2022
GLF AFRICA
September 2022
GLF CLIMATE
November 2022
6TH GLF INVESTMENT CASE SYMPOSIUM
December 2022