#GLFLive with game experts Elizabeth Newbury and Alan Gershenfeld

Games are some of our most effective teachers. They pull us into their small worlds with the enticement of entertainment and of winning, teaching us their own particular rules along the way. When their worlds and rules mirror those of our own, they teach us about reality itself. In this session, game production experts will discuss when games are the most effective format for exposing people to certain realities, conveying information, and explaining complex topics. In turn, this can make players begin to understand and invest in an issue, while equipping themselves with new knowledge and skills to confront adversities in real life too.

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Quotes

  • “Life is more fun if you play games.” – Roald Dahl
  • “Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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LandScale: Demonstrating Impact at Scale (for MOBILE APP users only)

The ability to communicate simple yet accurate statements of impact to donors, investors, and other stakeholders is crucial to strengthen support for work at the landscape level. How can we verify results from landscape assessments and what claims can organizations make about sustainability performance? Join us and other landscape leaders as we explore the latest thinking in measuring landscape performance and credibly communicating results.

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Q&A Session: How to improve smallholders’ access to finance in sustainable farming systems?

A Q&A session from the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance on how to improve smallholders’ access to finance in sustainable farming systems On June 3rd, Climate Policy Initiative Senior Analysts Daniela Chiriac and Tatiana Alves will answer questions about how to improve smallholders’ access to finance in sustainable farming systems. They lead the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance sustainable agriculture and Brazil programs, respectively. Four entrepreneurs from the Lab will join the session to share their practical experience in developing climate finance instruments for agriculture business.

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The Lab’s Impact

Overview of the Lab’s sustainable agriculture instruments

Conexsus Impact Fund

The Land Accelerator Bond

Smallholder Forestry Vehicle

The Socio-Climate Benefits Fund

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Addressing forest crime through improved governance in the post COVID-19 recovery: focus on the Lower Mekong

At a time of uncertainty and global economic disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, continued, concerted global effort is as crucial as ever to address illegality both at global and national levels to reduce the economic and environmental pressure on forests, protect livelihoods, and to secure a sustainable future.

The Lower Mekong basin is a globally important ecoregion that encompasses an incredibly high diversity of forest habitats. These forests are home not only to diverse and rare wildlife but are also relied upon by many communities for essential products and services. However, loss and degradation of natural forests in the middle-income countries of the region have displaced the growing demand for timber to the least developed countries of the region, and illegal logging practices and actors have followed.

The COVID-19 crisis may also create an opening to relax law enforcement to the extent of enabling large-scale illegal activities and fraudulent practices, while the attention is focused on immediate economic impacts. This risks undoing hard-earned achievements to increase legal and sustainable timber production and reduce deforestation and lead to increased unemployment, poverty and food insecurity.

The session will feature a lively discussion organized around the issues related to addressing illegal logging and trade through improving governance, legality and sustainability of value chains. The session will explore opportunities to address forest crime and reduce the pressure on forests in the region under the recently launched project “Addressing forest crime through improved governance in the Lower Mekong region”.

With the support from the Government of Norway, the UN-REDD Programme will support Lower Mekong region countries region (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam) in addressing these challenges through improved governance in the region. The session will gather project partners to explore current challenges and opportunities the countries encounter while trying to increase the effectiveness of systems designed to ensure legal and sustainable trade in timber.

The session will also address how by supporting the existing regional dialogues and forums, and addressing nationally-specific barriers to the implementation of their decisions, various initiatives can ensure that the post-COVID-19 recovery does not occur at the expense of the region’s forest ecosystems, nor of the substantial progress made by forest sector institutions to address climate change.

Main session: Forest solutions to the triple crisis – food, climate and Covid-19

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Plenary: Beyond the GLF Bonn Digital Conference

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We must fundamentally change the way we produce, consume and live. This interactive plenary will bring conference participants live to the stage to reflect and answer the question “what now?” and uncover key take-aways from the GLF Bonn Digital Conference. The segment will ask participants to reflect on the 3-days and identify which systems, approaches and lifestyles we must relinquish and restore, how we can continue to build resilience and how we reconcile our current realities with our actions to successfully move forward to build the future we want. Live scribing by Josephine Ford at studio RAA.

 

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#GLFLive with Perrine & Charles Herve-Gruyer – Starting a farm with zero experience

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Perrine and Charles Herve-Gruyer a “power couple” and described as France’s Permaculture Ambassadors and owners of the “Le Ferme du Bec Hellouin” – a permaculture/micro-farm situated in Eure Normandy renowned for its vegetable and fruit productivity and revenue on a relatively small patch of land that also protects nature and creates biodiversity. For their work, the couple were recently awarded a sustainable development prize in Haute Normandie and their farm is nationally and internationally recognised as a reference for holistic farming. On 4 June, award-winning journalist Natasha Elkington will speak with Perrine and Charles Herve-Gruyer on their reinvented lifestyles and the significant viabilities of cultivating with conscience.

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Inspirational talks by Crop Trust’s Stefan Schmitz and climate activist Vanessa Nakate, followed by a Conscious Planet talk and a guided meditation with Sadhguru

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As food need to grow, ecological degradation threatens not only food production but our very survival on the planet. It is time for people to become conscious of our fundamental relationship with land. How healthy the soil is today is how healthy we will be. And restoring tree cover is fundamental to restoring habitats, ecosystems, and averting large-scale desertification of our planet. Tree-based agriculture in particular is powerfully placed to harmonize several priorities, including aligning our ecological aims with our economic ones, and reducing human migrations compelled by loss of agrarian livelihoods. For human well-being, for health, for food security, and above all for ecological balance, we must aspire to draw at least 30% of our food from trees.

Meditation

Every worm, insect, and animal acts in harmony with the ecological wellbeing of the planet. Only we humans, who claim to be the most intelligent species, are not doing that. We act as if we are the only or the last generation on the planet. It is very important that we recognize that every other life has a right to live on this planet too, and our survival is contingent on theirs. The preservation and nurturing of this planet and all living creatures is synonymous with aspiring for a good life for ourselves. It is time to raise human consciousness so our actions transform from a

destructive mode to an inclusive one, bringing people and planet into harmony. Daily practice of a simple yet powerful meditation can bring about balance and stability such that human actions become purposeful and all-inclusive.

 

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