Videos
Kim Cartensen – The role of forest certification in resilient landscapes
27 Dec 2018
How can forest restoration best be incentivized and monitored? Which finance and policy instruments best support integrated approaches and payments for externalities? How can communities and SMEs be connected to financiers and project developers for landscape management and restoration initiatives? These are questions the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has grappled with for a number of […]
Jefferson Hall – Applying key lessons to restore tropical landscapes
27 Dec 2018
Dr. Jefferson Hall’s research focuses on understanding the flow of goods and services provided by tropical forests and how they change with land use and climate change. He is also the Director of Smithsonian’s Agua Salud project which includes a 700-hectare landscape-scale laboratory to understand the role of biodiversity in regulating stream flow, sequestering carbon, […]
Interview with Christopher Knowles – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Former head of the European Investment Bank’s environmental division, Christopher Knowles is a longtime leading figure in climate and environmental finance. For eleven years, he led the Bank’s operational team handling investments in equity and debt funds for infrastructure and environment, throughout which the EIB scaled up and innovated its contributions to climate finance. With […]
Interview with Juan Carlos Mendoza – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Mr. Mendoza has extensive experience at the intersection of international development, climate finance, project finance, international policy, and resource mobilization. He has served in a number of high-profile positions, including ten years at the World Bank in both technical and managerial roles, and more recently as part of the senior management team and interim Director […]
Interview with Rhett Butler – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Rhett Butler founded Mongabay in 1999 with the mission of raising interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife. For the first ten years of the project, he operated Mongabay on his own, publishing thousands of stories and tens of thousands of photos. Today Rhett Butler serves as editor-in-chief and CEO of Mongabay, a […]
Interview with Satya Tripathi – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Satya S. Tripathi is the Senior Adviser for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at UN Environment. He is also currently leading the exploratory efforts on behalf of UN Environment and other key development partners to establish sustainable finance facilities in India and other developing countries. Mr. Tripathi is the Executive Secretary of the US$ 1 […]
Interview with Christian Kroll – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
In 2009, Christian Kroll founded Ecosia as a start-up search engine that uses its profits to plant trees and combat global deforestation. With more than 7 million active users, Ecosia is known for its industry-leading standards of corporate transparency and user privacy, alongside its mission to restore the world’s degraded and vulnerable forests, in turn […]
Interview with Claire Nasike – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Claire Nasike is a Food For Life Campaigner at Greenpeace Africa, the third awardee of the Wangari Maathai scholarship and the founder of the Hummingbird Foundation an initiative that connects school children to nature by establishing organic food and botanical gardens. In her free time, she loves reading, and writing articles on her eco-blog www.conservationatheart.wordpress.comwhich […]
GLF in conversation with Hans Friederich – GLF Bonn 2018
27 Dec 2018
Dr. Friederich, a Dutch-born geographer, has been leading INBAR since 2014. Previous to this, he was the IUCN Pan-European Regional Director, overseeing operations in Europe, Russia and Central Asia, while having also managed the organizations global fundraising unit. He has also worked in IUCN’s Eastern Africa Regional Office, as senior technical advisor for the Ministry […]
