Videos
Crop Trust and Plant Treaty Secretariat launch BOLD Emergency Reserve | #GLFClimate 2021 Must-see Speakers
11 Nov 2021
“Seeds may not look like much, but seeds have changed the course of history before”, said Norway’s Minister of International Development Anne Beathe Tvinnereim at the launch of the Emergency Reserve, the first financial mechanism to help genebanks in need.
Lessons Learned for Sustainable Development in the MAP Region, Amazonia
11 Nov 2021
Since its inception in the late 1990s, the MAP initiative – a trinational effort to accelerate sustainable forest and land use in the Peruvian, Brazilian and Bolivian Amazon – has been building an evidence base for the effectiveness of transboundary cooperation in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With a special focus on SDGs 13 […]
Facilitating Spaces for Gender Responsive Conservation: Women’s Solutions from the Amazon
11 Nov 2021
This session reports preliminary lessons learned from gender inclusive initiatives that have increased women’s participation in conservation and development in the Brazilian, Colombian and Peruvian Amazon. These cases cover a diverse collection of Indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant women from across the region. The session will facilitate a discussion of findings from multiple grassroots efforts where […]
Positive Tipping Points for Transformative Change
8 Nov 2021
Leaders across the globe are facing up to humanity’s biggest challenge yet – transforming societies towards carbon neutrality and harmony with nature. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is clear: our prevailing economic model and consumption patterns have placed the planet on a trajectory towards uninhabitability. Every new strategy and policy from now on will be judged and measured by its ability to draw down carbon emissions. Though the challenge is great, we have the ability, knowledge and will to adapt. And there are positive signs.
Coffee with Sineia Wapichana
7 Nov 2021
Join us for a coffee with a defender of the biocultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest. During this brief discussion, we explore how grassroots action and international advocacy are coming together to address both human and nature rights that are threatened by forest fires.
Project to Process: Pitfalls and Potential of Implementing Long-term Integrated Landscape Approaches
7 Nov 2021
This session will highlight experiences in Integrated Landscapes Approaches (ILA) implementation and reflect on the challenges related to facilitating long-term and more meaningful landscape-scale initiatives that are adaptable, flexible and ultimately more effective. Moving from “project” to “process” has been mooted as the means of ensuring more effective and more equitable means of engagement at […]
Landscapes for Forests and Food
7 Nov 2021
The ways we use our land to produce food and other goods and services are responsible for just under a quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Within this segment, the most significant contributors are deforestation and agricultural emissions from livestock, soil and nutrient management. It’s also on the land where climate change has its […]
Climate Action in the Restoration Decade
7 Nov 2021
Positive tipping points can transform our future. One promising entry point for triggering them is ecosystem restoration, which combines restoring ecosystem functioning and development with climate mitigation and adaptation. Experience shows that landscape approaches are key to restoration, as it is in landscapes where stakeholders meet, conflicting interests are negotiated, and synergies are achieved. However, […]
How Can Functional Diversity Foster Conviviality?
15 Oct 2021
The PRODIGY project centres on the hypothesis that knowledge-based functional diversity management increases societal and ecosystem resilience. Through this lens, resilience is understood as the capacity to resist, recover and learn from external perturbations. During this session, the PRODIGY project team will explore this idea from the perspective of partners and stakeholders in southwestern Amazônia […]
Collaborative Actions for Rural Prosperity and Biodiversity Conservation in Peru
15 Oct 2021
This session showcases findings from an integrated intervention developed in the priority landscape of the San Martín region, and spotlights the leadership of smallholder farmers in mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity. Co-created with public, private and local actors, the San Martín model combines natural climate solutions (including conservation, restoration and agroforestry) with market-driven commodity […]
