- At GLF Forests 2025, experts and forest practitioners from diverse sectors will share insights and solutions to protect forests.
- The conference will take place 24–25 April in Bonn, Germany, and online, with interpretation available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
- Online registration is open to all.
Bonn, Germany (9 April 2025) – On 24–25 April, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) will host the hybrid conference GLF Forests 2025: Defining the next decade of action, placing forest ecosystems at the heart of climate and biodiversity strategies.
The world’s forests face unprecedented challenges, but the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people depend on them. Rising temperatures, deforestation and unsustainable land use are compromising forests’ resilience. Their future depends on sustainable management rooted in science and traditional knowledge.
With 2030 deforestation targets fast approaching, governments and all sectors must accelerate progress, scale impact, reinforce resilient local action and align efforts under a unified climate agenda for the next decade and beyond.
At GLF Forests 2025, policymakers, forest experts, youth leaders and financiers who are shaping the future of forests will provide insights and practical examples through sessions such as:
- The living forest: Food, forests and the future of community-driven restoration. Learn from grassroots efforts restoring ecosystems with agroforestry. Hear examples of how this work strengthens social dynamics, enhances food security, boosts economies and aides climate resilience.
- Turning forest commitments into action: What governments must do in 2025. Explore the new “2030 Global Forest Vision: Priority Actions for Governments in 2025,” outlining eight transformative actions to halt and reverse forest loss through finance, governance and land rights actions.
- What’s at stake for forests, people and the planet? Discover why the next decade is crucial for forests, how collaboration across sectors can drive meaningful change and how to align global goals with local solutions for effective and sustainable forest management and restoration efforts.
- Learning from REDD+ for the next decade of forest action. Review science-based insights from REDD+ and identify what must evolve to achieve multi-level policy frameworks, improved forest monitoring and stronger governance, equity and participation.
- Forests beyond trees. Explore evidence and tools supporting the sustainable, equitable and safe use of wild species. Unveil how humans can sustainably use forest ecosystems and how their value should be reflected in management and policy.
- IMFN: Action beyond words – Forest partnerships for landscape sustainability. Join experts from across the world in discussing practical solutions to reimagine the future of forests and explore ways to scale sustainable strategies for land use.
- The evolution of digital tools for sustainable forest management in the Congo Basin. Discover current trends in digital tools for forest assessment and management, such as remote sensing for mapping and monitoring. Discuss the transformational approaches needed over the next decade.
- Defining the next decade of action. Identify urgent actions needed to protect and manage forests sustainably. Hear from Brazilian leading actors shaping the forest agenda at COP30 and beyond, and explore critical next steps in forest research, finance, policy and locally-led action.
Browse the full agenda here. All sessions will offer simultaneous interpretation in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
GLF Forests 2025, co-organized by the GLF and the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), will bring together hundreds of stakeholders in Bonn, Germany, and online.
Register to join online or apply to attend in person: bit.ly/GLFForests2025
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NOTES TO EDITORS
- If you will be in Bonn, Germany on 24–25 April, apply for an onsite media pass here
- Join GLF Forests 2025 online as media and receive all press updates, registering here
- Stay tuned to the conference updates and access additional information at our newsroom
- Find visual assets in our Trello board
- For more information, feel free to contact Kelly Quintero (k.quintero@cifor-icraf.org) in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese
ABOUT THE GLF
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, connecting people with a shared vision to create productive, profitable, equitable and resilient landscapes. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), in collaboration with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank, and its charter members. Learn more at www.globallandscapesforum.org.
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