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President of Mauritius Her Excellency Ameenah Gurib Fakim, yogi and spiritual leader Sadhguru, UN Environment Director General Erik Solheim, cultural instigator Scott Goodson, Coordinator of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity Marcos Terena, El Salvador’s Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Lina Dolores Pohl Afaro and the World Bank’s Senior Director for the Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice Karin Kemper will address the world’s largest gathering on sustainability issues at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Bonn this December 19-20.

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Connect with 45 organizations through 18 topical Discussion Forums, including the World Resources Institute (WRI), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Rare, FAO, Rabobank, the African Union Commission, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

Interact with 18 community leaders from all over the world via the Indigenous Peoples Major Group for Sustainable Development (IPMG SDGs) at the GLF.

Discover the latest innovations through lively Landscape Talks (8-10 minute fast-paced, impassioned lectures from leading experts and practitioners on sustainable land use), and 5 Launchpads (mini press conferences). 

Explore exciting pavilions (exhibition booths categorized by theme): German Pavilion, Restoration Pavilion, Financing Sustainable Landscapes Pavilion and the Indigenous Peoples Pavilion. 

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Inside Indonesia’s fires and haze

Reserve front row access to the brightest minds, movers and shakers of the sustainability sector, and discover new reports and initiatives to be launched in a series of press events throughout the two-day event.

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What is the Landscape Approach? In this upcoming free event, scientists and researchers from the Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation and CIFOR, among other organizations, will discuss how integrated landscape approaches can reconcile local socio-economic and global environmental challenges. They will also address the pressing issues of definition, implementation and scale of landscape approaches.

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Inside Indonesia’s fires and haze
Clouds rise over the landscape in West Lampung, Indonesia. CIFOR scientists brought a landscape perspective to issues of global climate change at COP23 in Bonn. CIFOR Photo/Nanang Sujana

Landscapes and their multiples functions were the focus of discussions led by scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on the sidelines of this month’s global climate talks in Bonn, Germany.

At COP23 – the 23rd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – CIFOR scientists presented their latest findings on the relationship between gender, rights and forest landscape restoration; collective action on peatlands; and progress on REDD+, while promoting conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks in developing countries.

Bringing a landscape perspective to the challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation, CIFOR scientists emphasized the importance of land and forests to meeting global goals. The role of rights – for communities, for indigenous peoples and for women – was also highlighted as an urgent priority for global action on climate.

PALM OIL
New map helps track palm-oil supply chains in Borneo
The updated Borneo Atlas offers new data to measure the impact of mills and plantations on forests
EBOLA
Ebola outbreaks linked to forest loss
Scientists track disease to edge of newly cleared forests
RIGHTS
Restoring forest landscapes: A question of community rights
What forest landscape restoration means for tenure, governance and communities
FOOD AND FORESTS
Global food solutions from the Asia-Pacific
At the EAT Food Forum in Jakarta, finding more sustainable ways to feed the world
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Forests vital for global food security
CIFOR scientists explain why at the EAT Food Forum in Jakarta
Wild nourishment
Forest foods boost local diets in Zambia
COP23: ANALYSIS
COP23 Special: Green Climate Fund payments: An explainer
Stephen Leonard on how countries will be paid for REDD+ results
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COP23 Special: Can REDD+ benefit the poor?
Amy Duchelle on why the scheme’s success depends on it
COP23 Special: How land and forests can help meet global goals on climate
Manuel Guariguata, Rosa Román-Cuesta and Christopher Martius on how their research is drawing the connections between restoration and climate change
COP23 Special: What would a rights-based REDD+ look like?
Anne Larson and Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti share eight transformational proposals from a new literature review
COP23: REDD+
COP23 Special: Walking the REDD+ line, talking transformational change
Deciphering what works and what doesn’t with deforestation commitments
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COP23 Special: The politics of REDD+ in Mexico
Why measurement, reporting and verification is not a strictly technical task
Planting the seeds for REDD+ payments in Indonesia
Jakarta discussion draws connections from the national level to the grassroots
COP23 Special: Sharing the benefits of REDD+ in Burkina Faso
How funds are split among groups on the ground
COP23 Special: In Burkina Faso, finding new paths through a changing landscape
What climate and land-use changes mean for farmers and pastoralists
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