Videos
Virtual tour: Journey to Malaysian Borneo
16 Nov 2020
Journey to Malaysian Borneo with The Borneo Project to learn about the rare wildlife of this unique island and see how local communities are involved in documenting and maintaining forest health! Join Fi, Bryan, Shahnaz, and Jettie on an exploration of the rainforests of the Baram River Basin to learn about a community-led project to […]
Collaborating to operationalize landscape approaches for nature, development and sustainability (COLANDS)
16 Nov 2020
The potential that integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) could have in replenishing the Earth’s ecosystems while concurrently tackling global and societal challenges is staggering. Yet, despite featuring prominently in UN Conventions as promising solutions to climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity and socioeconomic disparity, they remain underresearched, underreported and, as a result, untapped by societies worldwide. […]
Humanity at a crossroads – key messages from the Global Biodiversity Outlook
16 Nov 2020
Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). GBO-5 provides global summary of progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and sets the scene for the development of the post 2020-global biodiversity framework. It is based on a range of indicators, research studies and assessments (in particular the IPBES […]
Restoring Asian drylands – Landscape Partnership for Asia
16 Nov 2020
Join leaders from the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO), World Agroforestry and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF), Global EverGreening Alliance (Alliance) for the signing of a landmark partnership agreement to restore drylands and drought-prone areas in Asia. The Landscape Partnership for Asia will contribute to efforts to restore economic and environmentally productive functions of […]
Transformative change and the age of collective action
16 Nov 2020
Years from now, historians will be discussing the reality that we are living and the tomorrow that we are defining. But what will they call this time? The age of climate denial? The age of extinction? The age of disunity, disharmony and disparity? The story doesn’t have to pan out that way. If we’re smart, […]
Global Evergreening Alliance: Capturing collaboration from the ground up
14 Nov 2020
More than ever, we are realizing how interconnected we are. Public health, biodiversity, and ecosystem restoration are interconnected. Biodiversity underpins life on Earth; it protects our health and wellbeing and it is up to us to restore it. Ambitious actions are necessary to combat the climate and biodiversity crises, but these can only be achieved […]
Assessing and enhancing capacities to restore ecosystems globally
14 Nov 2020
Through Resolution 73/284, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2021– 2030 to be the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The resolution calls for supporting and scaling up efforts to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide, as well as to raise awareness of the importance of ecosystem restoration. To support the implementation of the […]
Mainstreaming biodiversity in the forest sector
14 Nov 2020
HOST: CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) Biodiversity is already a well-recognized element of sustainable forest management (SFM). The role of forests in maintaining biodiversity is also explicitly recognized by the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017-2030. In this session, panelists discuss the integration of biodiversity in the forest sector, take stock […]
Seizing the landscape opportunity to catalyse transformative biodiversity governance
14 Nov 2020
HOSTS: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) with Satoyama Initiative, LandScale, UNU-IAS, HoARECN – African Landscape Dialogue The various changes around the world is gradually telling us about the need for a huge transformational shift in our biodiversity. This move calls for the collaboration of all actors espaecially the non state actors to help achieve the […]
Landscape biodiversity for healthy people and healthy economies: tools for preventing future pandemics and for re-establishing nature-based tourism
14 Nov 2020
HOST: World Bank COVID-19 has brought new attention to the interdependence of landscape, human and animal health. While the pandemic’s zoonotic origins clearly evidence the risks that ecosystem degradation and human encroachment into wildlife habitats pose to global health, its aftershocks have starkly exposed the lack of resilience in our current social and economic systems. Healthy landscapes […]
