About GLF Climate 2021
Hosted digitally and in Glasgow alongside COP26, the GLF Climate 2021 hybrid conference made a unanimous call for ambitious, concrete action to stop the climate crisis.
Attended by 4,386 digital participants from 145 countries, along with 481 in-person participants at the University of Glasgow, the event featured 400 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth, and government leaders.
Across 67 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, and climate talks, GLF Climate: Forests, Food, Finance – Frontiers of Change explored the potential of three key climate solutions: forest restoration, resilient food systems, and sustainable finance. Messages spread on social media rallied 41.34 million people around concrete ways to address the climate emergency as quickly as possible.
Climate financing is helping communities protect forests
Join a discussion between Indigenous Peoples leaders who support a new perspective in the climate financing architecture that can directly support indigenous and local communities. They will share guiding principles needed to ensure that forest conservation finance from the public and private sector is distributed equitably and directly to forest communities.
Resources
- However You Look at It, Our Future is Forests – Ecosystem Marketplace
- Stewards of the Forest – Forest Trends (forest-trends.org)
- How to Redesign Climate Funding to Better Support the Amazon’s Indigenous Communities – Forest Trends (forest-trends.org)
- Guiding Principles for Collaboration and Partnership Between Subnational Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communitie (GCF Task Force)
- The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation in Indigenous Territories – Forest Trends (forest-trends.org)
