Videos
Mamadou Diakhite: It takes a region…Coordinating landscape restoration in Africa– GLF 2016 Marrakesh
17 Nov 2016
Mamadou Diakhite of NEPAD – the African Union’s body for development coordination – talks about what Africa is doing on the regional level to restore its drylands in the fight against climate change. There is now broad recognition of the potential impact of landscape restoration on both mitigation (e.g. on vegetation cover and soil carbon […]
Harrison Karnwea: How Liberia fights climate change by planting trees – GLF 2016 Marrakesh
17 Nov 2016
Harrison Karnwea, Managing Director of Liberia’s Forest Development Authority, talks about how his country is protecting itself against desertification and environmental change by restoring landscapes – before it is too late. There is now broad recognition of the potential impact of landscape restoration on both mitigation (e.g. on vegetation cover and soil carbon sequestration) and […]
Panel discussion: Non-state actors and the new climate goals – GLF 2016 Marrakesh
17 Nov 2016
The Discussion Forum addresses, based on CIFOR research in interaction with partners, the challenges and opportunities presented by the full participation of non-state (e.g. private sector) and subnational government actors in efforts to address climate change on the ground. The presentations are based on comparative research on multilevel challenges conducted in 54 sites of land […]
Julia Bucknall: Commitments and ideas for regreening Africa’s drylands – GLF 2016 Marrakesh
17 Nov 2016
Julia Bucknall, Acting Senior Director for Environment and Natural Resources at the World Bank, highlights major developments, commitments and perspectives for concrete action to address landscape restoration challenges in African drylands, one year after the Paris climate agreement has been forged.
Creating communities to combat climate change – 2016 Global Landscapes Forum in Marrakesh
29 Oct 2016
The 2016 Global Landscapes Forum: Climate Action for Sustainable Development on 16 November is bringing together experts from many sectors to talk climate change, landscapes and sustainable development. Join us in Marrakesh or online to make connections and#ThinkLandscape! http://www.landscapes.org/glf-marrakesh/
Building sustainable landscapes through gender-responsive restoration in Brazil
27 Oct 2016
‘Building Sustainable Landscapes through Gender-Responsive Restoration in Brazil’ is a collaborative effort produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Global Gender Office and Global Forest and Climate Change Programme. The video showcases the importance of women’s equitable participation and representation in Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Brazil via a series of capacity-building […]
Anne Larson discusses recognizing, titling indigenous lands
24 Oct 2016
forestopia? or how (not) to title indigenous community lands
Karla Canavan – Making sustainable supply chains the new normal
2 Aug 2016
Director Sustainable Finance for Bunge, Karla Canavan, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London.
Odds and ends for restoring landscapes through agroforestry GLF 2015
11 Dec 2015
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The session focuses on tree-based approaches to regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across degraded farming landscapes in the tropics. It covers aspects such as practices for restoration, policy and institutional aspects of landscape restoration […]
It all begins at home – climate action with multiple scopes and scales for achieving INDCs GLF 2015
11 Dec 2015
Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. In defining their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), countries have shown a wealth of approaches to construct visions of a sustainable and resilient future – and to determine objectives and means to pursue them, which include […]
