Videos
Sustainable Rangeland Management in a Changing Environment An Introduction to Good Practices
4 Nov 2019
This interactive session will share and discuss key information coming out of the new TerrAfrica/WOCAT sustainable rangeland management (SRM) in Sub-Saharan Africa guidelines, which have documented existing practices and approaches through over 30 cases practices. The session will facilitate interactive exchanges and share visual presentations by experts who have contributed to documenting selected practices. The […]
Closing Plenary – GLF Accra 2019
4 Nov 2019
Restoring Africa’s Landscapes – From the Ground Up – GLF Accra 2019
1 Nov 2019
With the anticipated restoration of 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded land across Africa by 2030, the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) is literally the biggest restoration effort across the globe. Conditional on receipt of technical and financial support, various African countries have committed to significantly scale up restoration on the ground, to […]
Third Dialogue on Forest Landscape Restoration FLR and Bioenergy
1 Nov 2019
This interactive session will bring together various international organizations that agree to join forces to facilitate raising awareness and exchange of ideas and information among stakeholders from both Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and Bioenergy communities, with a view to intensify opportunities for collaboration and to develop a joint agenda foraction around Sustainable Bioenergy and FLR. […]
Accelerating the Implementation of REDD+ and Results based Payments in Africa
1 Nov 2019
In Africa, the UN REDD programme has worked with 28 partner countries to successfully achieve substantial climate, forest and development goals. As a result, more than 12 countries have advanced their national REDD+ strategies or action plans, 10 countries have finalized their forest reference emission levels (FREL), five countries were supported in developing national forest […]
The Decade to Act – GLF Accra 2019
1 Nov 2019
What the global community needs to achieve has been made very clear: The United Nations has issued a massive global ‘call to action’ to mobilize the political and financial support necessary to restore the world’s deforested and degraded ecosystems over the coming decade,to support the wellbeing of 3.2 billion people around the globe. More than […]
Horst Freiberg – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
Horst Freiberg is a restoration expert who is a forester by training and considered the “father of the Bonn Challenge”, a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030. He formerly served as the Head of the Forest Division […]
