Videos
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.
How integrated approaches support the achievement of multiple benefits in the landscape
5 Mar 2018
Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute on inspiring, enabling and mobilizing action to restore vitality to degraded landscapes and forests around the globe. 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.
Science and indigenous knowledge
5 Mar 2018
Joan Carling, Co-convener, Indigenous Peoples Major Group for the SDGs stresses the importance of inclusion of indigenous people in decision making for sustainable landscapes. Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
What does it take to make sustainable landscapes a reality?
5 Mar 2018
Karin Kemper, Senior Director for the Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice at the World Bank says we need innovation, information and incentives. Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany. December 2017.
Maria Margarida Ribeiro da Silva: “Great pride for women who fight to defend forests”
20 Feb 2018
Five years after her death, the forest advocacy efforts of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai were commemorated at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany during the Global Landscapes Forum, December 19-20. Almost a thousand delegates gathered to witness Maria Margarida Ribeiro Da Silva from Brazil receive the Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award.
Putting landscapes first to green up the environment
20 Feb 2018
A strong grassroots movement, brave political leadership and innovative leadership are key to forging change and preventing landscape degradation, said Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment, at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Bonn, Germany.
The role of local forest champions: Extraordinary commitment to community forest management
20 Feb 2018
Hiroto Mitsugi, Assistant Director-General of Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) discusses the role of local community in raising awareness of the key role forests play in supporting local communities, rural livelihoods, women and the environment. Maria Margarida Ribeiro da Silva, a resident of the Verde para Sempre Extractive Reserve in Brazil’s northern state […]
Panel Discussion: The future of the Global Landscapes Forum
17 Jan 2018
The GLF is forming a global movement of 1 billion people in support of collective engagement, learning, and action to effectively build sustainable landscapes that deliver multiple benefits to some of the planet’s most vulnerable people. Taking a holistic, evidence-based approach to the world’s most complex and pressing development challenges, we promote transformational change at […]
