While the world seems to get further entangled in a web of concurrent crises, there are a growing number of leaders and experts who are sparking new hope and trust in the future. GLF took the effort to find the experts sharing their visions on the state of biodiversity and gathered them in a single digital space to share their inspirational knowledge. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to listen in, learn and get inspired on why biodiversity is essential to building back better.
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L’importance des données dans la protection de la biodiversité de l’Afrique centrale
Depuis 2007, l’Observatoire des forêts d’Afrique centrale (OFAC) agit pour créer des réseaux d’information, mettre en place des outils d’analyse et de communication, et produire des publications régionales pour fournir des données fiables, pertinentes et accessibles sur l’état des forêts d’Afrique centrale.
La session présentera de manière interactive les différents outils disponibles pour les décideurs, les chercheurs, les ONG, les bailleurs, le secteur privé et les étudiants engagés dans la région pour obtenir des informations relatives à la biodiversité et à la gestion des forêts.
Array ( )GLF in Action: Kicking off the first GLFx chapters and announcing the Restoration Stewards
Learn with forestry experts in Malawi, swim with Indigenous leaders in reef systems off the coast of Mexico and restore the Earth with young people in every landscape.
During this launchpad, explore how the Global Landscapes Forum is collaborating with amazing communities around the globe, and sparking action on the ground. The GLFx team will present the first official GLFx chapters and the GLF youth team will announce the 2021 Restoration Stewards who will receive sponsorship, mentorship, and training, to bring their project to the next level and restore their landscape throughout the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
Want to know more about GLFx and the local chapters?
GLFx chapters are independently organized local chapters, which foster action on the ground by empowering communities with the necessary technology, knowledge, and motivation to connect, share, learn, and act in their landscapes. As the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on sustainable land use, the GLF is on a mission to positively impact one billion people. GLFx is a movement that puts communities first in creating landscape-level change. GLFx is looking for change-makers ready to lead the movement in their local communities. To learn more about GLFx, join the launchpad, visit https://glfx.globallandscapesforum.org/
If this sounds interesting, drop in to the GLFx networking session at 12:30 CET on 28 October, day one of GLF Biodiversity. Find it in the agenda!
Want to know more about Restoration Stewards?
The Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) and the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) have launched the Restoration Stewards program to support and highlight the work of five young restoration practitioners and their teams, who will be dubbed ‘Restoration Stewards’. The year-long program will provide funding, mentorship, and training to deepen the impact of five youth-led restoration projects. After receiving more than 220 applications with the help of our partners, the final candidates have been selected and will be announced on October 28th! Read more about the Restoration Stewards Program here.
Some of the session will be in Spanish. If you would like to receive the audio translation of the launchpad, all you need to do is follow these steps:
- Download the Interactio App from the Apple Store or Google play store or access the web appfrom your laptop Google Chrome browser https://app.interactio.io/
- Enter the event code Glfbiodiversity
- Plug in your headphones.
- Open the App and select your language channel
Harnessing the power of nature: Financing a bio-economy in Latin America
In Latin America, multiple drivers are putting pressure on biodiversity and natural ecosystems. This plenary will build on the issues raised in the ‘Financing Diversity’ plenary to shed light on opportunities and challenges to sustainable climate finance in the Amazon basin and the Latin American region at large. The debate will speak to financial innovations at the intersection of biodiversity and climate action and explore the initiatives and instruments needed to achieve a bio-economy that is truly based on nature’s richness, is gender–inclusive, and is grounded in the rights and expertise of Indigenous Peoples.
The two-part discussion will primarily be held in Portuguese and Spanish, with English translation.
Array ( )Assessing and enhancing capacities to restore ecosystems globally – UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
In the context of the 2021 – 2030 United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the FAO-led Task Force on Best Practices has a central task to conduct a Capacity Needs Assessment to identify what and whose “system-wide capacities” need to be enhanced to achieve the goals of the Decade. As part of the preparatory process, this interactive session will be the occasion to raise awareness about the Capacity Needs Assessment, engage grassroots organizations, and more specifically, to gain critical feedback on the proposed methodology that includes a stakeholder mapping and network analysis, and a questionnaire encompassing multiple dimensions of capacity.
Find this session’s white paper here.
If you would like to be actively engaged in the Capacity Needs Assessment, please follow this LINK so that we can contact you after the session (Please note that even if you cannot join the session, you can also provide your information!)
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Collaborating to operationalize landscape approaches for nature, development and sustainability (COLANDS)
Integrated landscape approaches feature prominently in recent UN conventions as promoted strategies to address inter-connected social, political, economic and environmental challenges in tropical frontier landscapes. However, evidence of their effectiveness remains poorly researched, reported and understood. This session will address this gap through a book launch that showcases COLANDS initiatives that are implementing integrated landscape approaches in Ghana, Zambia, and Indonesia. Speakers will share their experiences of conceptualizing, designing and implementing landscape approaches, including: why biodiversity needs to be integrated within landscape approaches, how better governance can be achieved, what evaluation approaches are appropriate and how to bridge sectorial, disciplinary and knowledge system divides.
Array ( )Virtual tour: Journey to Malaysian Borneo
Journey to Malaysian Borneo with The Borneo Project to learn about the rare wildlife of this unique island and see how local communities are involved in documenting and maintaining forest health! Join Fi, Bryan, Shahnaz, and Jettie on an exploration of the rainforests of the Baram River Basin to learn about a community-led project to document the endemic species of this ecosystem. This extraordinary, remote land is home to the Orang Ulu, which roughly means “people of the interior”, a term that includes many different indigenous groups. Together we will discuss how community-led forest protection is an essential tool in maintaining biodiversity, and we will even see some of the rare species that have evolved to suit this particular climate. It’s everything you could want from an exotic eco-tour, minus the mosquitos and humidity!
Array ( )Global Evergreening Alliance: Capturing collaboration from the ground up
More than ever, we are realizing how interconnected we are. Public health, biodiversity, and ecosystem restoration are interconnected. Biodiversity underpins life on Earth; it protects our health and wellbeing and it is up to us to restore it.
Ambitious actions are necessary to combat the climate crisis, but these targets can only be achieved through massive-scale collaboration. The Global EverGreening Alliance is launching a cloud-based Monitoring Platform that tracks the progress and impact of multiple land restoration efforts in near real-time.
The Platform is placing communities and local realities at the center of restoration, illustrating the interdependent relationship between productive ecosystems and resilient communities.
The Platform’s data will provide critical and essential information for effective policy-making, training, and capacity-building opportunities for a larger-scale impact on the ground. Access to these insights will also further demonstrate why investing in Nature Based Solutions is a triple win for the planet, its people, and our economies.
Array ( )“Restoring the Earth: the next decade” – latest Unasylva journal edition release
The 252nd edition of international forestry journal Unasylva, “Restoring the Earth: the next decade”, is devoted to building momentum for the restoration agenda to 2030, particularly in light of the opportunities presented by major restoration commitments such as the Bonn Challenge, the New York Declaration on Forests, AFR100, Initiative 20×20 and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030.
The Unasylva journal, established in 1947, is the FAO’s longest-running periodical. It aims to bring globally-significant developments in forestry to a broad range of readers, and features contributors from across the planet and from a range of sectors and institutions.
At the launch of Unasylva 252, panelists from civil society, international organizations and national governments will share stories of the participatory process that lead to the edition’s creation; highlight important findings of the edition; raise awareness around the opportunities associated with restoration and the UN Decade; and emphasize the vibrancy of restoration efforts at the global level.
Array ( )Transformative change – a collective call for global action
Two days of dialogue and debate will compel participants to get ready for a strong call to global action. But what action is most urgently needed? So many of us are pleading for transformative change – but what does this require? Experts will discuss the need for a fundamental, system-wide change across technological, economic and social factors, including changing paradigms, goals and values. To achieve this, we must move away from looking at biodiversity as a production factor to seeing it as an integral part of life, without which we cannot survive. Moving from an economy of exploitation to an economy of restoration will require individual and collective behavioural change.
The Closing Plenary will be opened by Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary of the CBD and will start with a conversation between Christiane Paulus, Director General at BMU, Carla Montesi, Director at DEVCO and Carlos Rodriguez, CEO of GEF, before moving to a dynamic panel of representatives from youth, government, business, civil society and indigenous people.
Participants will join the discussion and contribute to the transformative change which we will initiate here.