GLF Africa 2025, as it happened
Africa’s landscapes are facing a triple crisis: land degradation, biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.
How can the continent build a thriving nature economy to address these challenges and keep its land healthy for future generations?
That was the big question we set out to tackle at GLF Africa 2025: Innovate, Restore, Prosper, along with 2,300 participants from 122 countries, 67 speakers and 77 global and local partner organizations.
Held in Nairobi, Kenya, and online, the global event reached over 10 million people – and counting – via social media and media channels, with more than 1 million engagements.
All 14 live-streamed plenaries and sessions are now available to watch on demand. Tune in to explore a series of vibrant conversations on how Africa can rethink development in a way that works for nature and people.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
We need to create enabling ecosystems that support people to actually do more of the restoration and also tap into nature-based economies, because policies without people is just poetry.
But we are operating in a state where the economy has been given more prominence over nature. Yet nature sustains the economy, and we need to undo that.For us to undo that, we need to look at the $7 trillion that is being pumped into destructive activities – activities that are actually destroying nature – and stop that.
We need to think about owning and controlling our own data. Not just adopt solutions that are built elsewhere to scale on the continent, but really look at it as: can we solve challenges that are really pervasive across our communities and our countries and start from solving a problem first, rather than trying to apply a solution first?
We are our own resource. We can forget the notion that we need to have foreign aid for us to sustain ourselves and just dig into ourselves and see how best can we solve our own problems in our own landscapes without relying heavily on external influence.
We need a shift from aid to investment-centered development. Africa is home to $6.5 trillion in natural resources, a population that is about to reach 2.5 billion by 2050 and 60% of the world’s renewable energy potential. This is not a charity case. This is a compelling investment case that the world cannot afford to ignore.
It is time for Africa to rise up to the challenge and steward its development.
We have the resources, we have the will, and we can build healthy ecosystems, resilient and prosperous livelihoods and competitive and sustainable economies.
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