Global Landscapes Forum enters new phase

Nearly 1,000 members of the development, environment, and finance communities gathered in Germany this week for what is being hailed as a “new phase” of the Global Landscapes Forum as it breaks away from the United Nations climate conference.

John Colmey, director of communications at CIFOR who works specifically on the GLF, told Devex that the new phase of the forum was deliberately conceived to be different to other development and environmental conferences, and is intended to help the forum “break out of the academic world” and become as big, if not bigger, than the World Economic Forum.