Videos
The Decade to Act – GLF Accra 2019
1 Nov 2019
What the global community needs to achieve has been made very clear: The United Nations has issued a massive global ‘call to action’ to mobilize the political and financial support necessary to restore the world’s deforested and degraded ecosystems over the coming decade,to support the wellbeing of 3.2 billion people around the globe. More than […]
Horst Freiberg – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
Horst Freiberg is a restoration expert who is a forester by training and considered the “father of the Bonn Challenge”, a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030. He formerly served as the Head of the Forest Division […]
Nana Ama Yirrah – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
A land economist, development policy analyst and gender specialist by profession, with over 24 years of experience in land and natural resource governance, land policy, women’s land rights and development practice in general. Nana Ama Yirrah is the Founder and Executive Director COLANDEF. At COLANDEF, she is responsible among others, for providing overall leadership and […]
Siham Drissi – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
Siham is Programme Management Officer in the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit in the Ecosystems Division at UNEP headquarters. She has been working in the field of international cooperation and sustainable development, with particular focus on agriculture, food security and environmental issues for the past 15 years. After some years in the private sector at international level, […]
Johnmary Kavuma – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
Johnmary Kavuma is a young environmentalist from Uganda. He is deeply passionate about changing people’s lives and saving the environment. He founded Upcycle Africa with an idea of providing affordable, artistic and durable houses to low income earners while training marginalized youth to construct housing using plastic bottle waste. Kavuma’s organization has run awareness campaigns […]
Kennedy Kirui – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
Kirui is passionate about the impact that technology can have on people’s lives. He is the Co-founder & CEO of Tanasuk Africa (also doing business as iHub Consulting) – a design thinking and software consulting firm working with organizations building products for African markets. Kirui leads a talented team of design thinkers, UX researchers, developers, […]
Wanjira Mathai – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
Wanjira Mathai is the Chair of the Wangari Maathai Foundation (WMF), whose mission is to advance the legacy of 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai. Wanjira is leading the development of innovative training programs for children and youth that will nurture courage, leadership, and integrity. Wanjira also serves as Senior Advisor at the World Resources […]
Afternoon Plenary Restoring Africa’s Landscape – Connecting Efforts – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
The Bonn Challenge’s ambitious global forest restoration targets were set during a high-level event in 2011 in Bonn, organized by the Government of Germany and IUCN. These targets were later endorsed and extended to 2030 by the New York Declaration on Forests at the 2014 UN Climate Summit. This plenary session will bring together representatives […]
Richard Eba’a Atyi – GLF Accra 2019
30 Oct 2019
Richard Eba’a Atyi has more than 25 years of experience working in forestry, especially in tropical forest management planning, forest economics, forest certification and forestry institutions. He has a Masters of Science in Forestry from Oregon State University, USA, and a PhD in forest resources management and economics from Wageningen University, Netherlands. Prior to joining […]
