Videos
On campus with Robert Nasi
28 Nov 2020
Robert Nasi, Director General of CIFOR-ICRAF, closes GLF Biodiversity live from Bogor, Indonesia.
Stefan Schmitz on crop diversity
28 Nov 2020
Stefan Schmitz, Executive Director of the Crop Trust, explains why agrobiodiversity is integral to a food secure future.
Bård Vegar Solhjell on sustainable land use
27 Nov 2020
Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, unpacks the pivotal link between land-use and planetary health.
Ma Jun, Director, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, China
27 Nov 2020
Ma Jun, Director of China’s Institute of Environmental Affairs, explains how China is stepping up its efforts to protect and restore biodiversity.
Carole Dieschbourg on creating the new normal
27 Nov 2020
In this plenary, Carole Dieschbourg, Minister for the Climate, Environment and Development of Luxembourg, discusses how we can ‘build back greener’, and create sustainable landscapes in which restoration and One Health are the norm.
Galina Angarova on Biocultural Diversity
27 Nov 2020
Join Galina Angarova, Executive Director of Cultural Survival, for an inspirational discussion on the link between cultural, linguistic and biological diversity.
Jennifer Morgan on environmental justice
27 Nov 2020
Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, explains why justice must be the guiding principle for planetary recovery.
Всемирный конкурс прорывных технологий 2021
22 Nov 2020
English version Аральское море, расположенное на территории Центральной Азии, когда-то четвертое среди крупнейших внутренних водоемов, сегодня почти исчезло из-за чрезмерного использования его ресурсов и изменения климата, поставив под угрозу жизнеобеспечение 40 миллионов человек, проживающих в этом регионе. Всемирный конкурс прорывных технологий 2021 направлен на выявление и поддержку прорывных технологий и инновационных подходов в сфере восстановления […]
Rewilding as a biodiversity engine
16 Nov 2020
Rewilding is a new, (pro)active approach to biodiversity conservation. The abandonment of rural areas worldwide provides huge opportunities for developing rewilding projects and creating new nature reserves – though it’s important to note that rewilding is necessarily a bottom-up process that can only be truly sustainable if it is set up and implemented in cooperation […]
For forests’ sake: Transforming extractive industries and infrastructure to achieve NYDF Goal 3
16 Nov 2020
The New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) is a non-binding international agreement that seeks to halt natural forest loss by 2030, contributing to global climate and biodiversity goals as well as the UN SDGs. In this session, Climate Focus, Meridian Institute and the UNDP hone in on NYDF Goal 3 (to significantly reduce deforestation from […]
