Thinking Landscapes and the Importance of Youth to Meet the COP21 1.5 Degree Goal

Landscapes - mosaics of different types of land use and ecosystems, the people living within them and all the possible interactions between them - by themselves are complex, so is the approach. It's a different, less rationalized and less linear way of thinking. Last weekend, the fourth edition of the Global Landscapes Forum was held alongside the the COP21 negotiations in Paris. The GLF serves as a platform for bringing researchers, indigenous community representatives, policy makers, development cooperation, NGO's, private sector and others together to embrace that complexity and find ways not only to understand it, but to make it work better.