Videos
How can we tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems?
5 Mar 2018
Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility discusses how we can enable increased private sector participation in landscape restoration activities. Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
Smoke on Water – Countering global threats from peatland loss & degradation
5 Mar 2018
Annawati van Paddenburg, Head of Sustainable Landscapes, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) calls to decision-makers to acknowledge the importance of peatlands to protect our ecosystem. Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
Creating communities where people and nature flourish
5 Mar 2018
Charles Batte, Founder, Tree Adoption Uganda believes through landscape restoration activities like planting trees and agroforestry, we build resilience for small holder farmers against the changing climate while economically empowering unemployed young people in our rural communities. Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
Why peatlands matter?
5 Mar 2018
Dr. Alue Dohong, Deputy for Construction, Operation, and Maintenance, Indonesian Peatland Restoration Agency talks about the Global Peatlands Initiative—an effort by leading experts and institutions to save peatlands as the world’s largest terrestrial organic carbon stock and to prevent it being emitted into the atmosphere. Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
Mexico’s Felipe Calderón on how to make land restoration profitable: energy, cities, landscape
5 Mar 2018
The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, thinks that most degraded land can be restored in a profitable way — but “creative” approaches are needed to make restoration projects attractive to investors. Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
“What are you sinking about? Landscape carbon accounting – BIG TIME!” – Alexander Lotsch
17 Jan 2018
The Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes is pushing the envelope with a new and innovative approach to account for carbon emissions from landscapes. The resources and ideas generated through this initiative support and incentivize countries in implementing ambitious and transformative plans that harness their landscapes for development while contributing to global climate change mitigation.
Wanted! Chief ecosystem officers ensuring business and landscapes bloom – Eva Rood
17 Jan 2018
How to restore landscapes and, simultaneously, create sustainable businesses? We believe that every board should have a CEO: a Chief Ecosystems Officer. Someone who can bridge economy and ecology, and design a business model that serves both financial, natural and social capital ánd delivers return of inspiration. The ENABLE-project, a consortium of practitioners, researchers, trainers […]
Learning-by-Doing: Practical Landscape Lessons from West Africa
30 Dec 2017
Miro Forestry has been operating in West Africa for seven years, often as a pioneer in plantation forestry. In this time the company has encountered various political, environmental and social challenges. This talk by Stephanie Doig and Andrew Collins summarises the major challenges faced and goes on to detail lessons learnt from a specific landscape […]
Peatlands Matter: GLF Bonn 2017 Summary video
26 Dec 2017
On Dec 19-20, the Global Landscapes Forum brought together 1000 attendees from 103 countries in the World Conference Center in Bonn. In total, 21,610,513 people were reached across social media and fully 51,000 people tuned in live from 114 different countries to connect, learn, share and act around our planet’s greatest climate and development challenges.
Why care about peatlands? – Daniel Murdiyarso
21 Dec 2017
CIFOR Principal Scientist discussed the Global Wetlands Map’s development, its use, and the need for verifications. An Indonesian case study will demonstrate how to locate degraded peatland. Criteria of successful restoration by rewetting degraded peatland will be proposed.
