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Best of 2021: Sustainable Finance

As greenwash rules kick in, sustainable investing takes major strides

This week focus: Finance

TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Finance

Sustainable finance 101: How to mobilize funds for the planet

All the ins and outs of sustainable investing

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Finance

Can cryptocurrency be climate conscious?

Short answer: yes, but not Bitcoin

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Measuring progress

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

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Rights

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

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Food & Livelihoods

What is needed to safeguard food from future pandemics?

Lessons from COVID-19 ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit

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Restoration

16 Women Restoring the Earth

Raising up female leaders defining the future of our planet through their ideas, talents, actions and inspiration

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Food & Livelihoods

The missing piece of new biodiversity goals? Managed landscapes

Scientists and policymakers stress importance of targeting agricultural landscapes in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

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Measuring progress

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

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Restoration

Can soil inoculation accelerate carbon sequestration in forests?

Newly popular field of soil microbiome restoration research offers hope

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Restoration

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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2021'S MOST POPULAR VIDEOS

MOST VIEWED KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS

Event report

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).

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Event report

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.

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Event report

GLF Africa 2021: Outcome Statement (EN/FR)

Multinationals are increasingly harnessing nature to reach green goals, but it can be a tricky business

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White Paper

Meeting Land Tenure Needs of Pastoralists Key to Restoring Rangelands

In all landscapes, land tenure, land use practices and restoration progress are closely interlinked.

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Call to Action

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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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

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