Videos
Seizing the landscape opportunity to catalyse transformative biodiversity governance
14 Nov 2020
HOSTS: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) with Satoyama Initiative, LandScale, UNU-IAS, HoARECN – African Landscape Dialogue The various changes around the world is gradually telling us about the need for a huge transformational shift in our biodiversity. This move calls for the collaboration of all actors espaecially the non state actors to help achieve the […]
Landscape biodiversity for healthy people and healthy economies: tools for preventing future pandemics and for re-establishing nature-based tourism
14 Nov 2020
HOST: World Bank COVID-19 has brought new attention to the interdependence of landscape, human and animal health. While the pandemic’s zoonotic origins clearly evidence the risks that ecosystem degradation and human encroachment into wildlife habitats pose to global health, its aftershocks have starkly exposed the lack of resilience in our current social and economic systems. Healthy landscapes […]
The Nature of Business – What can Resilient Landscapes do for you?
14 Nov 2020
HOST: Resilient Landscapes Currently, we use 40 percent of the Earth’s land surface to produce our food – a figure that will need to double if our current food and agricultural systems are to meet the population’s nutritional needs by 2050. Unless we change tack and adopt more sustainable, land-use efficient methods of production, such […]
The role of diverse agricultural landscapes in biodiversity conservation and food system resilience
14 Nov 2020
HOST: World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Join World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and GIZ for an insightful discussion on the role that mixed and diverse agricultural landscapes play in bolstering biodiversity and food system resilience. Across a series of case studies, panelists reframe agriculture from ‘biodiversity threat’ to ‘restorative tool’, and provide policy recommendations for how the post-2020 Global […]
The Hindu Kush Himalayan Call for Action: Maintaining the ‘Pulse of the Planet’
14 Nov 2020
Home to four biodiversity hotspots, six UNESCO natural World Heritage Sites, 30 Ramsar sites, 330 IBAs and a diverse array of cultures hosting more than 1000 languages, the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region is truly a global asset in the fight against biocultural loss. But its future is at stake. Rifts and inequities between the 1.9 […]
A One Health approach for environmental, animal and human health
14 Nov 2020
HOST: The International Livestock Research Institute COVID-19 forcefully illustrates the power zoonoses that have to disrupt our economies and public health systems. In recent years, One Health has emerged as a strong approach for preventing and addressing such global health crises, as well as playing an important role in mitigating climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem […]
Rethinking protected areas in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
14 Nov 2020
HOST: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) The zoonotic origins of COVID-19 and countries’ responses to the pandemic raise important questions about the future of protected areas. First, does the threat of future spillover events substantiate calls for stricter separation of nature and people despite repeated and justified criticism of fortress conservation […]
Lessons From Indonesia: building a nature-based economy through jurisdictional approaches
14 Nov 2020
HOST: Sustainable District Association (LTKL) The Sustainable Districts Association of Indonesia (LTKL) is a collaboration forum established and managed by Indonesian district governments to promote sustainable land and resource use through collective action. The forum – comprising nine ‘Kabupaten Lestari’, or sustainable districts – supports governments with the development and implementation of jurisdiction-wide sustainability policies, […]
The food, climate and biodiversity ‘triple challenge’ and One Health landscapes
14 Nov 2020
HOST: WWF By 2050, the population is set to reach 10 billion. Providing adequate food and nutrition for this number – while delivering on our commitments to biodiversity and climate – will undoubtedly be the defining challenge of our time. Building on the talks that took place at GLF Bonn 2020, this session advances thinking on […]
Tackling the risks of wildlife-borne disease pandemics – policy and investment priorities
14 Nov 2020
HOSTS: Sustainable Wildlife Management with Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) This session centres on the white paper and policy brief “Build Back Better in a Post-COVID World – Reducing Future Wildlife-Borne Spillover of Disease to Humans” […]
