FLARE 2025 Annual Meeting

The 11th FLARE Annual Meeting will be held October 23-27, 2025 in Lima, Peru. This year’s meeting will convene under the theme of forests and transformative change and will examine and assess the role of forests and those who rely on them for achieving transformative change.

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Tropentag 2025: Reconciling land system changes with planetary health

Tropentag 2025 will explore how agricultural systems can adapt to global challenges while ensuring sus-tainable land use. Discussions will focus on balancing productivity and conservation, improving soil and water management, and integrating livestock, crops, and agroforestry into resilient farming landscapes. The conference will also examine the role of policies, market mechanisms, and knowledge transfer in fostering land-use systems that support both human and planetary health.

 

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Climate Week NYC

This September, Climate Week NYC returns to the City of New York.

It will bring together inspiring heads of government and leaders from the world of business, tech, academia, and civil society. Together, they’ll share ideas, challenge, create, collaborate, and energize.

The world is changing – and so is the way we talk about the action we need to take, the investments that are needed. These are incredibly important discussions to have.

Climate Week NYC 2025 will be a platform where some of the big challenges of our time are being discussed. How to stay competitive in a changing world, how to reduce costs and swiftly unlock barriers, where to spot opportunities, and the investments in clean tech that are powering shifts.

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The Land-Peace Nexus: Advancing Restoration for Peacebuilding, Resilience, and Stability

In this 90-minute cross-learning event, restoration practitioners, policymakers, and researchers will come together to explore the role and potential of restoration in promoting peace, resilience and stability—and how to undertake restoration in conflict-sensitive settings.

Participants will engage with both research insights and practical case studies and will be encouraged to contribute to collective thinking on the topic.

Note: This is an online event with French – English simultaneous translation.

🔍 What to Expect

  • Strengthen understanding of the land–peace nexus through expert insights, addressing knowledge gaps, and sharing best practices
  • Share knowledge about different sources of conflict affecting land and ecosystems, such as mining, disputes over resource access and illegal land use
  • Present field-based insights on how ecosystem restoration fosters peace, using compelling stories and case studies
  • Showcase collaboration between actors for restoration with peace-positive outcomes, using conflict-sensitive approaches
  • Co-create a practice-oriented roadmap for context-specific restoration strategies that support peacebuilding

💡 Why This Event Matters

Earth’s natural systems are essential to human wellbeing, supporting over three billion people globally (IPBES, 2019). With $44 trillion in global revenue tied to healthy ecosystems (WEF, 2023), their degradation—now affecting 20–40% of land (UNCCD, 2024)—poses serious risks to peace and stability.

Environmental decline intersects with social, economic, and governance challenges, weakening resilience and fueling insecurity. In fragile contexts, instability further accelerates degradation as communities shift to immediate needs over long-term sustainability.

While restoration offers environmental and livelihood benefits (UNCCD, 2024), achieving peace outcomes requires deeper understanding and sensitive design. In some areas, restored lands become contested, as armed groups seek control of natural assets—highlighting the urgent need for context-aware strategies.

👥 Who Should Attend

  • Restoration practitioners working at ground level on project implementation
  • Regional actors focused on programme design and coordination
  • Policy developers and advisers shaping rural development and cohesion strategies
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) professionals

📌To join the session:

REGISTER HERE

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Findings from a New Global Assessment on Forests for Social and Economic Resilience

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Given the increasingly rapid, unpredictable, and unprecedented global changes linked to the Triple Planetary Crisis of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss, fostering resilience has become a key policy issue. Forests as Pillars of Social and Economic Resilience. A Global Assessment Report responds to this urgent context. It has been developed by a team of internationally recognized scientists from varied professional backgrounds and geographical contexts under the IUFRO-led Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) Initiative of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF).

The report is the first of its kind to comprehensively explore how forests contribute to social and economic resilience in the face of disturbance and change, and how societies can, in turn, support and steward resilient forest systems.

By focusing on the dynamic interlinkages between forests, people, and policy, the assessment provides a knowledge base for decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers seeking to understand and strengthen just forest-based pathways to resilience.

The release of the assessment will take place on World Environment Day – a timely moment to elevate science-based knowledge in support of more integrated and equitable approaches to forest policy and practice.

Join this online roundtable on 5 June to explore key assessment findings and engage in interactive discussion with experts from science, practice, and policy.

REGISTER TO JOIN ONLINE

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CGIAR Science Week

CIFOR-ICRAF is taking part in the inaugural CGIAR Science Week! This conference will engage the community of global leaders in research, policy, and development working for a food, nutrition, and climate secure future in active dialogue during plenary sessions focused on harnessing and scaling science and innovation. CIFOR-ICRAF will offer the opportunity to see, first-hand, its transformative innovations improving the lives of communities and to visit its cutting-edge labs to see science in action.

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Trigger Change! Innovative Sustainable Agriculture Solutions for Land Restoration

This new course, developed over six months by a team of university professors and sustainable agriculture experts from around the world, serves as a comprehensive resource for educators. In line with the ambitious goals set by the G20 Leaders’ Declaration in November 2020 to reduce land degradation, it forms part of the Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation and Enhancing Conservation of Terrestrial Habitats.

Released in April, 2024 this course targets university students and training institution participants worldwide enrolled in agriculture and related programs. With a focus on sustainable agriculture and innovation, it aims to equip a new generation of land restorers and ecopreneurs.

Professors, lecturers and training instructors can receive course materials and implement this course to empower their students in addressing the challenges of land degradation and promoting sustainable development.

Format: 3.5 hours daily of interactive learning, virtual trips, and region-specific tools.

Who should attend: Educators, researchers, academics, and agricultural professionals dedicated to advancing sustainable practices in the Arab States.

Don’t miss this opportunity to drive meaningful change for land restoration.

REGISTER HERE.

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Festivals of Action: Learning Experience

Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to make a difference?

We are seeking individuals who are passionate about environmental restoration, want to organise festivals or large-scale restoration activations, and are eager to make a tangible impact in their communities.

Greenpop and the UNCCD are thrilled to invite you to the Reforest Fest in South Africa, taking place from 16-21 April 2025. This is a chance to be part of a global environmental restoration movement and learn how to run a community-driven restoration event from experts.

Reforest Fest is Greenpop’s flagship event, uniting hundreds of volunteers for a weekend filled with tree planting, arts, music, and educational workshops in the beautiful Uilenkraal Valley. This immersive experience combines ecological restoration with a celebratory festival format, fostering lasting change in our communities.

Why Attend?
– Learn and grow: Gain practical experience in hosting citizen-led environmental restoration initiatives.
– Network: Connect with restoration experts and like-minded individuals from around the world.
– Skills development: Acquire key organisational skills necessary for planning and executing future Festivals of Action.

Included are five nights of camping accommodation, meals throughout the festival, and mentorship and community support for your future projects.

Application Details:

Cost: $172 USD per person (excluding flights, visas, and insurance) – motivating participants can apply for support.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025, at 11:59 CET

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What if youth led the way? Redefining action for land, culture, and people

From restoring landscapes to preserving heritage and influencing policy, young experts and practitioners around the world are already bridging the worlds of science, traditional knowledge, policy, and practice to drive change in their landscapes and communities. From restoring degraded lands to leading innovative policy campaigns, and from preserving cultural heritage to sparking community-driven solutions, these youth are redefining the boundaries of what’s possible for transformative action. This session will also provide a platform for dialogue, inviting participants to connect, collaborate, and reimagine the role of youth in addressing the pressing challenges of our time.

Join us on 9 December at 12:00 local time (UTC+3) in the Science Pavilion at the UNCCD COP16.

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