Videos
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.
Ask Me Anything: Sadhguru
21 Dec 2017
A conversation with Sadhguru, a yogi and mystic who founded the Isha Foundation. The foundation focuses on human wellbeing and has over nine million volunteers. Sadhguru discusses various projects, such as Green Hands, aimed at tree planting, and Action for Rural Rejuvenation, which focuses on revitalizing rural communities. He emphasizes the importance of inner transformation […]
Sadhguru in conversation with Erik Solheim
21 Dec 2017
Sadhguru has chosen to speak about his campaign with the Executive Director of UN Environment, Erik Solheim, at the 2017 Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Bonn, Germany—the world’s largest gathering on sustainable land use.
Adopting a new perspective on landscapes and water – Bruno Locatelli
21 Dec 2017
Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into local, national, and international decision-making on climate change, land use and water management. This Talk will present new research results on forest, water, and energy interactions that provide the foundations for cooling terrestrial surfaces and for distributing water resources. Our call to action targets a reversal […]
Lessons learnt from Peru to Papua New Guinea – Hannah Peck
21 Dec 2017
Cool Earth has been trialling methods of direct giving to rainforest communities for forest protection for the last ten years, focusing particularly on income generation schemes. This talk briefly describes the journey and shares some of the similarities in issues faced and successes found working alongside different communities from Peru to Papua New Guinea. We […]
