Connect, share, learn and act in Bonn at the world’s largest multi-sector platform for accelerating action towards landscapes that are productive, prosperous, equitable and resilient. The GLF is working constantly to inspire and drive action and aspires to create a movement of 1 billion people around sustainable landscapes. Together, through collaborative leadership, we will create a global force for positive change by realizing a vision of what we can do if we all work together.
This December at GLF Bonn, more than 2,000 participants and a global online audience will engage in cross-sectoral dialogues meant to turn sustainability commitments into action. Discussions will revolve around five core themes: Rights, Food & Livelihoods, Landscape Restoration, Financing Sustainable Landscapes and Measuring progress towards development goals.
There are several ways you can help shape this event.
Please note that applications are now closed as all sessions have been filled.
Discussion Forums
Shape the sustainability conversation with in-depth livestreamed and recorded discussions. You’ll engage with an audience averaging 140 people and thousands others online, while all GLF platforms and social media will support your work. You’ll have the option of running a Digital Summit before and/or after your event and you can reach a global audience, drive action and stir talks through GLF outreach and media activities.
Price: EUR 15,000
Session length: 90 minutes
Your benefits as host:
Leading a discussion forum comes with a wide range of services and complimentary items:
- The GLF Coordination Team will support the organization of your session;
- Assistance with how you can optimise and make the most out of your content and connect with your audience;
- 15 complimentary registration passes;
- Priority on the GLF media platforms, its social and traditional media channels so that you can reach the networks you target and a global community;
- A physical space at the GLF Bonn event in the World Conference Center to run your forum;
- Video recording you can use on your website(s) and communication channels;
- Audio-visual equipment for livestreaming and recording, along with simultaneous translation (Spanish, French) – optional cost;
- An opportunity to sit on the GLF Events Knowledge Committee which makes strategic decisions and provides inputs for the overall events.
- Your digital/print logo will be featured on all event communication products and website.
Past Discussion Forums
Landscape Launchpads
Show your work far and wide! This is your opportunity to reach a global audience through the GLF platforms. Debut your initiative, book or report launch, new technology, alliance or pledge to the world and to the press present at GLF, on-site and online , following in the footsteps of the International Partnership for Blue Carbon, AFR100, the 20×20 Initiative, the Indonesian National Carbon Accounting System (INCAS) and more. Over 70,000 people watched GLF Bonn 2017 online, with more than 40 million engaged online.
Price: EUR 3,000 (filmed) OR EUR 4,500 (filmed + livestreamed)
Session length: 45 minutes
Host benefits:
Showcasing your work with the GLF brings along a wide range of services and complimentary items:
- The GLF team will support and advise your media and communications activities
- You will be able to announce your launchpad, share relevant content, engage with the global community before, during and after the event using the GLF social and traditional media channels;
- 5 complimentary registration passes.
- Audio-visual equipment for livestreaming and recording, along with simultaneous translation (Spanish, French) – optional cost;
- GLF will feature your logo (Digital/print) on all event communication products and website;
- A physical space at the GLF Bonn event in the World Conference Center with a captive audience of up to 50 people, including media, and thousands more online.
Past Launchpads
Landscape Laboratories
A platform to showcase the latest innovations in technology, approaches and programs to the GLF community made up of investors, community members and potential partners.
Price: EUR 3,000
Session length: Both days, throughout
Host benefits:
Session hosts will benefit from a wide range of services and complimentary items:
- Facilitation support from the GLF Coordination Team;
- A prime physical space at the GLF Bonn event in the World Conference Center with access to all event participants;
- Digital/print logo acknowledgement on all event communication and website materials;
- Social and traditional media, communications and outreach support; and
- 2 complimentary registration passes.
Landscape Pavilion and Booths
Book a space where you can share knowledge, build and reach out to networks revolving around a specific theme —and you will have the entire two days of the GLF to make the most out of it. You can run Pavilion presentations, interactive discussions and share your results and experience. The themed pavilions provide the common ground you need to build connections with like-minded participants.
Each themed Pavilion will include maximum 8 booths. Your organization may choose to manage the entire Pavilion (eight booths and a 30 person meeting space inside) but we encourage you to work with other organizations/partners within each Pavilion, to share the cost amongst you. Pavilions include audiovisual equipment. Global streaming is optional.
Price: EUR 3,500 per booth (up to 8 booths in each Pavilion) or EUR 35,000 per Pavilion
Session length: throughout the entire GLF Bonn
Host benefits:
As a host, you will benefit from a wide range of services and complimentary items:
- Facilitation support from the GLF Coordination Team;
- A physical space in a prime location at the GLF Bonn event in the World Conference Center with access to all event participants between 1-2 December;
- your logo (digital/print) logo will be featured on all event communication products and website;
- the GLF team will support your Social and traditional media and communications activities;
- 2 complimentary registration passes per booth [16 per Pavilion].
Landscape Talks
Welcome to the Big Stage! Share a cool idea, innovation, an amazing research breakthrough or critical issue that one billion people need to hear. Your talk will be professionally filmed, moderated, produced and broadcast online to a global audience of tens of thousands. We’ll share with you your recorded talk, while featuring it on the GLF communications channels.
Ideal session length: 7 minutes
Past Landscape talks
Side events
Want to launch a new program/project, unveil a new strategy, run thematic discussions or have a reception, all while strengthening your outreach? Then you should run a side event at GLF Bonn! They offer more independence, while falling in line with the GLF mission and objectives.
Price: EUR 15,000 per 1.5 hours
Session length: Varies
Host benefits:
Hosting a side event comes with a wide range of services and complimentary items:
- On-request support from the GLF Coordination team on how to exploit the full potential of your event;
- 15 complimentary registration passes;
- A physical space accommodating 150 participants in a prime location within the World Conference Center, with access to all event participants;
- We will feature your logo (digital/print) on all event communication products and website;
- The GLF team will support your social and traditional media and communications activities;
- Simultaneous translation services – optional cost.
Past Side events
Digital Summits
These live-streamed, and then recorded and edited discussions are more than just webinars – they are your chance to connect with influencers and join various communities of practice around the latest landscape relevant topics. From one process you have the benefit of a live, interactive event and edited podcast to continue to share the discussion forever. You can run a digital summit before, during and post GLF Bonn and boost momentum for action by bringing everybody into the conversation.
Price: Free!
Session length: 60 minutes
Host benefits:
Running a digital summit brings you a wide range of services and complimentary items:
- the GLF Coordination Team will assist you with coordinating and exploiting the full potential of your session;
- Audio-visual equipment for livestreaming and recording;
- Assistance in post-event podcast production;
- GLF will support your media and communications activities and share your work on the GLF channels.
Past Digital Summits
Sponsor the GLF movement
At this year’s Bonn event, the Global Landscapes Forum is taking one step further towards creating more resilient, equitable, profitable, productive and healthy landscapes, by “reigniting the flame” to turn pledges for sustainability a reality. As the world’s largest science-led platform on sustainable land use, we are bringing together partners crossing sectors and nations to connect, share, learn and act. You can play a key part in this.
We have already connected 3,900 organizations, 115 million people from 148 countries and reached 250 million others online and we’re stopping here. We are greening Africa through the AFR100 and Latin America through Initiative 20x20, and helping to restore degraded land around the world through the Bonn Challenge. Our goal is to reach 1 billion people for a global movement around sustainable landscapes. Help us get there.
The GLF, launched by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), UN Environment, and the World Bank at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw in 2013 (COP19), has entered now its second phase and sixth year of existence.
By sponsoring the GLF, your organization will be exposed to more than 90 million people online this year through GLF’s digital experience, including webinars and social media. Exclusive benefits of sponsorship packages include logo representation, active participation in the GLF and reserved spots for your organization’s speakers. Our stakeholders such as youth and indigenous groups offer unparalleled opportunities to work together with people from around the world to bring about real change.