Videos
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 […]
“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 […]
Planet for sale – Dr. Tony Simons
10 Jan 2018
Tony Simons, Director General World Agroforestry Centre, give a talk at Landscape Talks, Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, 20 December 2017.
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 […]
Performance of land use intensification for poverty eradication in forest-frontier locations
30 Dec 2017
Adrian Martin give a talk on the intensified use of land can transform the lives of those living on it, very often reducing poverty but also driving displacement and the destruction of local practices. Drawing on new evidence that different types land use intensification have a widely varying impact on local marginalised groups, the session […]
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.
