Videos

Kyoto Digital Edition: Changing Fashions

16 Jun 2019

Description: Fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world. It’s responsible for 20% of the planet’s water pollution, and every second, it creates enough textile waste to fill a garbage truck. What’s more, its production processes create around 10 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, and take up valuable land that could otherwise produce […]

Operationalising the landscape approach: Learning from doing

16 Jun 2019

  Location: University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, Room 1005 Event description Sectorial approaches to land management have proved to be inefficient in combating persistent global challenges of biodiversity loss, food insecurity, climate change, and political and socio-economic inequality. Landscape-scale interventions have been identified as a means to manage trade-offs between conflicting land uses […]

Youth leadership in climate smart landscapes

16 Jun 2019

This WUYLF discussion panel will explore the role of youth leadership in the co-creation of innovative climate smart knowledge. The panel will be informed by the outputs of participatory and interactive workshops held 2 days prior to the panel. Photos, mind maps, visual representations, stories, business plans and novel ideas developed in the workshop will […]

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – a dialogue on restoration approaches and commitments in East Africa

16 Jun 2019

UN Environment is hosting a 2 hour discussion forum as part of the 24-hour Digital Edition, one of 5 live online sessions around the world, to take place on May 13, following on the GLF conference live from Kyoto. The session will be webstreamed live, with an expected audience of 10,000+. The expert discussion forum […]

Digital summit: Restoring Ecosystems, Reviving Hope

13 Jun 2019

  The restoration of forests and natural ecosystems is one of our best strategies for solving the climate and biodiversity crisis. Though 3.2 billion people are currently threatened by degradation – there is hope on the horizon.

In conversation with food security expert Bruce Campbell, at COP 25

12 Jun 2019

Dr. Bruce Campbell is director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). CCAFS attempts to address the most pressing and complex challenge to food security in the 21st century. Campbell shares his view on the protein supply chain plus how it can be disrupted and his own eating habits.

Sharing Knowledge and Actions Between the Youth Movement and the Private Sector

12 Jun 2019

Youth representative of COP 25, Salina Abraham of the Global Landscapes Forum sits down with the CEO and Founder of Impossible Foods, Pat Brown for a fire-side chat on the future of food.