Videos
Susanne Wallenoffer – Out of the forest and into the landscape of Central Asia
27 Dec 2018
This landscape talk will focus on viewing forest management as part of a wider landscape management approach. By showcasing a solution for sustainable and integrative forest management that has been successfully practiced in Central Asia, the talk aims at highlighting the need for a landscape perspective in forest management planning to address the various environmental, […]
Stephen Garnett – Why indigenous peoples are crucial to conservation
27 Dec 2018
Indigenous Peoples have long been recognised as central players in many of the world’s landscapes. However, the extent of their influence has never been fully understood – no attempt has ever been made to quantify the area owned or managed by Indigenous Peoples, the condition of those lands, the uses to which those lands are […]
Socrates Schouten – The Chamber of Commons: New models of cooperation
27 Dec 2018
Exciting examples of sustainable landscape management occur when governments, private organisations and civil society organisations work together to establish and finance new courses of action. There is a great flurry of new arrangements observing to these ‘landscape commons’. Similar to the Chamber of Commerce, we need more structural and vocal representation of these kind of […]
Mauro Agnoletti – Taking care of rural landscapes
27 Dec 2018
The focus of the talk is about the conservation and management of rural landscapes, with a specific focus on the FAO agricultural heritage systems sites. The talk will also address their role for achieving the sustainable development goals, the ongoing training projects for creating managers of these systems, particularly in developing countries. In addition, the […]
Kim Cartensen – The role of forest certification in resilient landscapes
27 Dec 2018
How can forest restoration best be incentivized and monitored? Which finance and policy instruments best support integrated approaches and payments for externalities? How can communities and SMEs be connected to financiers and project developers for landscape management and restoration initiatives? These are questions the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has grappled with for a number of […]
Jefferson Hall – Applying key lessons to restore tropical landscapes
27 Dec 2018
Dr. Jefferson Hall’s research focuses on understanding the flow of goods and services provided by tropical forests and how they change with land use and climate change. He is also the Director of Smithsonian’s Agua Salud project which includes a 700-hectare landscape-scale laboratory to understand the role of biodiversity in regulating stream flow, sequestering carbon, […]
Interview with Christopher Knowles – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Former head of the European Investment Bank’s environmental division, Christopher Knowles is a longtime leading figure in climate and environmental finance. For eleven years, he led the Bank’s operational team handling investments in equity and debt funds for infrastructure and environment, throughout which the EIB scaled up and innovated its contributions to climate finance. With […]
Interview with Juan Carlos Mendoza – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Mr. Mendoza has extensive experience at the intersection of international development, climate finance, project finance, international policy, and resource mobilization. He has served in a number of high-profile positions, including ten years at the World Bank in both technical and managerial roles, and more recently as part of the senior management team and interim Director […]
Interview with Rhett Butler – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Rhett Butler founded Mongabay in 1999 with the mission of raising interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife. For the first ten years of the project, he operated Mongabay on his own, publishing thousands of stories and tens of thousands of photos. Today Rhett Butler serves as editor-in-chief and CEO of Mongabay, a […]
Interview with Satya Tripathi – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Satya S. Tripathi is the Senior Adviser for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at UN Environment. He is also currently leading the exploratory efforts on behalf of UN Environment and other key development partners to establish sustainable finance facilities in India and other developing countries. Mr. Tripathi is the Executive Secretary of the US$ 1 […]
