Videos

Shaping sustainable supply chains of the future GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. This session examines sustainable-sourcing solutions – mobilizing large companies purchasing power and using real-world case studies. What are the trends regarding strategic resource cycles? What are the conditions required? The obstacles? How to encourage private investment […]

The role of agro-ecology in exploring innovative and viable adaptation measures GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. Coffee is being produced in some of the world’s important biodiversity hotspots, occupying large areas at mid elevations in the tropics. Building up resilience to increasing climate variability is a challenge faced not only by coffee […]

REDD+ Forest Reference Emission Levels GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The session provides an opportunity for the Republic of Congo, Zambia, Cambodia and DR Congo to present the status of their Forest Reference Emission Levels (FREL)/Forest Reference Levels (FRL) submissions to the UNFCCC and discuss lessons […]

Investing in integrated landscapes to achieve the SDGs GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. This session focuses on how investments are coordinated within integrated landscape initiatives and how investors can better engage with those who have a stake in the landscape. It highlights some of the most innovative funds and […]

Odds and ends for restoring landscapes through agroforestry GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The session focuses on tree-based approaches to regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across degraded farming landscapes in the tropics. It covers aspects such as practices for restoration, policy and institutional aspects of landscape restoration […]

It all begins at home – climate action with multiple scopes and scales for achieving INDCs GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. In defining their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), countries have shown a wealth of approaches to construct visions of a sustainable and resilient future – and to determine objectives and means to pursue them, which include […]

Managing and restoring natural tropical forests GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. The session debates the roles and future of managed tropical forests and the challenges of defining trade-offs between provision of goods on one hand, and maintenance of carbon stocks, biodiversity, and other environmental services on the […]

Landscape Restoration Snapshot GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. Climate negotiators and environmentalists are increasingly recognizing the significant contribution of forest landscape restoration as the other half of the land-use toolbox in addressing global challenges under the UNFCCC. The session includes experiences with and lessons […]

High-level Opening Plenary Discussion GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch the high-level opening plenary session from the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015 in Paris, France, alongside COP21. The session explores the investments into sustainable landscapes that countries and private actors have already committed to – as well as the areas in which we need to scale up efforts. Panelists discuss the […]

Climate Smart Agriculture for healthy landscapes and livelihoods GLF 2015

11 Dec 2015

Watch this Discussion Forum on the first day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. This session presents examples of how members of the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA) have developed different aspects of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and how this has contributed to healthy landscapes and […]