2024
in review
Growing Together:
5 Areas of Impact
This has been a year of incredible growth as the GLF has continued to work with new chapters, share powerful stories and widen our available tools and resources for those involved in landscape action.
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Growing Together:
5 Areas of Impact
1. Landscape champions
2. AI FOR GOOD
3. Knowledge IS POWER
4. REWARDING NATURE
5. CELEBRATING YOU
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2024
Landscape
Champions
So, who are
landscape champions?
At the GLF, landscape champions are those who dedicate themselves to the conservation and protection of natural ecosystems. They uplift their local communities, educate those around them, and fight to preserve the integrity of nature.
Landscape champions are the dozens of locally-led organizations that have become GLFx chapters and the Restoration Stewards working tirelessly to conserve and protect their local ecosystems. They are activists, photographers, writers, planters, brave-hearted individuals and organizations.
AI for good?
Yes, we might be tree huggers, but we’re also up to speed on AI! This year, the GLF was a part of many conversations about the impact and benefits of using AI to help quickly compile and analyze landscape data and remove knowledge barriers.
At GLF Africa, conversations focused on ways to train AI models with agricultural data from Africa.
Later, reshaping nature finance took center stage at the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, followed by recognition of the amounting innovations of AI in finance at this year’s Biodiversity COP16.
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We know that knowledge is key to positive change. Our Knowledge Hub is where we share publications, interviews, infographics and more.
This year, the Knowledge Hub published over 150 publications – and that’s just scratching the surface!
ThinkLandscape is our platform for everything from local stories like climate-proofing potatoes in Peru to global conversations on food waste and light pollution. We aim to share stories that inspire action toward a greener planet.
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of environmentally-related stories gathered from
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Peatlands can store an incredible amount of carbon unless they are exploited. This year at GLF Peatlands we explored how we can better gather data, map, and work together to protect these ecosystems.
We work with communities to tailor and co-develop courses for the greatest impact. This year with a university in Ghana we implemented a course on restoration education, and partnerships in Asia are on the horizon.
This year’s GLF Africa highlighted 6 ways to accelerate landscape restoration and implement integrated landscape management in the next 6 years.
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We have launched our Digital Campus – a space where you can take online courses, access resources and engage with a landscape community.
We’ve also updated our Landscape Academy. So whether you are a scientist, landscape leader or academic, you can use this platform to learn more about designing workshops and facilitating dynamic landscape restoration.
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3 top stories
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What is light pollution?
Agroecology aids floods in Brazil
What can tradition teach us about architecture?
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SUSTAINABLE FINANCE: REWARDING NATURE
In 2024 we’ve had lengthy discussions about sustainable finance and how it can fund green transitions for local landscape organizations and nationwide policies.
At our 7th Investment Case Symposium hot topics included biodiversity and carbon credits as well as incentivizing valuing nature.
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“Restoration should not be perceived as a cost; it needs to be perceived as an investment because the cost of not doing it will be much higher,” said Fabiola Marono Zerbini, director of Brazil’s Forestry Department.
Financing solutions that prize biodiversity must include partnerships across private and public sectors, lowering investment risk and amping accessibility for local and Indigenous communities.
Investors can channel private investments into preserving, conserving or restoring biodiversity by buying biodiversity credits.
Speakers at GLF Africa discussed national strategies and financial pathways to restore land while best supporting vulnerable communities.
Celebrating YOU!
It’s time to give yourself a round of applause. Many of you have engaged with our GLF Live videos, joined hybrid conferences, a media seminar or a film festival, tuned into our podcast episodes and watched our Instagram vlogs and takeovers.
In 2024, we’ve also strengthened connections by adding 10 new GLFx chapters and sponsoring 7 new restoration stewards. We’re also proud to work with two new Charter Members: the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and SouthSouthNorth (SSN).
You give meaning to our mission: “Connect, share, learn, act.” Thank you!
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CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU! CELEBRATING YOU!
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