Videos
Towards ‘Standardising’ Environmental and Social (E&S) Impact
12 Dec 2019
This interactive ‘knowledge marketplace’ event focuses on the “why, what and how” of measuring [both negative and positive] environmental and social impact associated with capital flows to land use. Trying to create consistency in terms of what indicators are important to measure [both negative and positive] impact, how should these be monitored and reported on, […]
Digital summit: Measuring the Impact of Investments on Biodiversity
12 Dec 2019
Bending the curve on our current biodiversity crisis is key to sustainable land use and a healthy planet. In doing so, the private sector will play a crucial role and it must invest on biodiversity. Measuring impact from those investments requires that there are agreed upon methodologies and terminology to familiarize the financial sector with […]
COP 25: Indigenous Women Use Traditional Knowledge to Save River
10 Dec 2019
Naijelijeli Tipap , a Masái from Tanzania and member of the Non-Governmental Indigenous Pastoralist Organizations explains that through Indigenous knowledge, we can adapt to and fight climate change.
8 Facts about Indigenous Peoples
10 Dec 2019
Indigenous Peoples and local communities are bearers of rights and solutions to the climate crisis. 🌿 Sources: United Nations, Global Witness and RRI
The Forest People of the Tomsk Region
10 Dec 2019
In conversation with Daria Egereva, representing the Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North at COP 25. Daria is a Selkup activist from the Tomsk region of Russia and talks traditional knowledge and the role of Indigenous women in her region.
In conversation with gender and rights scientists at COP 25
10 Dec 2019
Gender and rights scientists Houria Djoudi and Markus Ihalainen discuss finance, safeguards for gender and rights, measuring progress and more at COP 25 in Madrid.
Impossible Foods debuts in grocery stores in NYC
10 Dec 2019
The senior manager of Impossible Foods’ impact strategy on the molecule that makes the plant-based-meat phenomenon indistinguishable from beef, and how this in turn can reduce emissions and save endangered species.
Untapped potential of street art to advocate for the environment
7 Dec 2019
Gabrielle Lipton, editor of Landscape News, speaks on a panel in the Global Climate Action Hub at COP 25 in Madrid. To draw attention to the environmental danger a toxic tributary poses and the opportunities it offers for regeneration, Global Landscapes Forum partnered with Greenpoint Innovations (GPI) in the creation of a mural by Brooklyn-based […]
COP 25 Check-In with Musonda Mumba
7 Dec 2019
The GLF team caught up with Musonda Mumba, Chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit of the UN Environment Programme midway through COP 25 in Madrid. Musonda shares her hopes for negotiations over the coming days – with a specific focus on restoration and how that might play a key role in the climate agenda and […]
So, what about the Blue COP?
6 Dec 2019
So what about the Blue COP? It’s still in the picture. And looking forward, clearer regulations on carbon markets could actually help bring more private sector attention to blue carbon – carbon stored in coastal, wetland and oceanic ecosystems – particularly through carbon emissions offsetting schemes. For more about the “health and wealth” of these […]
