Last year, virtually no country left COP29 happy after a much watered-down deal on climate finance brokered by beleaguered hosts Azerbaijan. Will Brazil do better in charge of COP30?
The GLF will be hosting a side event and providing live coverage from COP30. Stay tuned for more details.
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Array ( [0] => America/Belem )The Second World Summit for Social Development will address gaps in and recommit to the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action and its implementation.
Hosted by Qatar and co-facilitated by the permanent representatives of Belgium and Morocco to the UN, the summit aims to deliver a short and concise political declaration adopted by consensus with a social development approach that will build momentum to implement the 2030 Agenda.
Array ( [0] => Africa/Abidjan )The International Model Forest Network (IMFN) will host a Global Forum in the Eastern Ontario Model Forest in Canada from 26–30 May 2025, which will attract up to 200 delegates representing over 60 Model Forests from around the world.
The IMFN Global Forum is a business, technical, and networking meeting in which members share knowledge, review their accomplishments, address challenges, and agree on Network‐wide and other strategic plans and initiatives for the three‐year period following the Global Forum.
Since its creation, the IMFN has held five Global Forums:
Organized by the Eastern Ontario Model Forest (EOMF) and its lead organization, the Ontario Woodlot Association (OWA), the 2025 IMFN Global Forum will take place on the Kemptville Campus Education and Community Centre. This Centre is an educational and multi-use facility serving the community of North Grenville and surrounding area, located right in the heart of the Eastern Ontario Model Forest, a pioneer member of the IMFN with over 30 years of experience.
Located less than an hour from downtown Ottawa, the Kemptville Campus includes 254 hectares and 17 main buildings, as well as woodlands, cropland, wetland, greenspace, greenhouses, trails, an agroforestry centre and maple bush, among other buildings. The forest of the campus is fully certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), under the Eastern Ontario Model Forest’s certification program.
Functions of the Global Forum are three‐fold:
On 27 May, the GLF will be hosting the Forests, People, Planet: Scaling Local Solutions for Global Impact hybrid event at the IMFN Global Forum. Join us online for free by registering here.
Array ( [0] => America/Toronto )The 24th edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) will focus on the pivotal role of partnerships in catalyzing transformative action and advancing global sustainability objectives.
Under the theme ‘partnerships for accelerating sustainable development and climate solutions,’ it aims to outline a clear action plan to strengthen partnerships among governments, businesses, civil society, and other key stakeholders to drive meaningful change and lasting impact.
Array ( [0] => Africa/Abidjan )We are thrilled to announce the launch of the first Southeast Asia “Educators Training” online workshop, scheduled to take place from 25 – 29 November 2024. This four-day workshop will bring together dedicated educators to empower them in teaching innovative university courses about land restoration and sustainability.
The workshop will be led by Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) in partnership with TH Köln (Germany) and is now open for applications from participants in the Southeast Asia Region and its surrounding countries.
This program is ideal for university educators, researchers, professionals in the fields of agriculture and land management, and those working in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or the private sector within Southeast Asia region and its surrounding countries.
Check here for more information regarding the course materials.
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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) guides actions worldwide to preserve and protect nature. It was adopted by the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) in December of 2022. This October, at the CBD’s 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, parties will review the framework’s implementation to date, take stock of each country’s revised and updated National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), further develop its monitoring framework, and mobilize more resources towards this cause.
Under the GBF, the CBD for the first time recognizes the importance of managed lands’ – including agricultural and urban areas’ – contribution to biodiversity conservation and restoration. For the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), such recognition is timely. We have decades of experience working with land users across the Global South to meet climate, biodiversity, economic, and social goals simultaneously, through holistic approaches like agroforestry, sustainable wildlife management, and planting more trees on farms. We’re also deeply committed to protecting the planet’s remaining primary forests, which play particular roles within the biosphere and serve to maximize ecosystem services. We look forward to contributing our expertise to this critical global dialogue, and helping support our partners to reach their biodiversity targets across a range of landscapes, from forests to agriculture.
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Climate change poses significant challenges to biodiversity, agriculture, water resources, community health, and infrastructure, requiring global efforts to mitigate its impact and adapt to the changes occurring and anticipated.
Vietnam, with its extensive coastline, diverse ecosystems, and significant agricultural sector, is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change which is posing substantial threats to the livelihoods, food security, and overall well-being of its rural population.
In response to these challenges, there is a pressing need for effective climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies tailored to the specific context of Vietnam’s rural areas.
Against this backdrop, ICRAF and Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry have joined forces to organize a conference focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation science and practices tailored to Vietnam’s rural context. The conference will focus on the following topics: Climate change impacts on rural communities, scientific knowledge and best practices, capacity building and collaboration and community resilience.
Array ( [0] => Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh )Join the Bioregions Facility and FIRE-RES on 23 October at 15:00 CEST, where three innovators will present solutions that efficiently and effectively address wildfire risk and integrated fire management in Europe and beyond.
Array ( [0] => Europe/Berlin )In sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the Great Green Wall countries, women provide the essential labour force and are central to food systems. Women, including rural dwellers, play an important role in agro-sylvo-pastoral production, thus sustaining livelihoods and socioeconomic development in the region. Despite the adverse effects of climate change, and the gendered challenges they encounter in securing access to and control over productive resources, public leadership and assets, women still operate in various fields related to land restoration, agroforestry value chain entrepreneurship, climate activism and green business. They represent the building block of development programmes such as the Great Green Wall (GGW) Initiative being implemented in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. Recognizing their huge potential, the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall (PA/GGW) has launched the Women’s Green Platform to further harness women’s contributions to the initiative. National agencies for the GGW are also setting up coalitions to improve civil society organizations’ participation. However, challenges remain in the operationalization of these platforms, and in ensuring effective participation of other women’s and youth organizations in the GGW Initiative.
The objective of the webinar is to highlight the critical role of women in the environment sector, and discuss how their potential can be unlocked and mobilized for the realization of the GGW Initiative.
The webinar is part of a series of virtual engagements within the framework of the Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) programme.
The K4GGWA programme is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It aims to enable sustainable land management and livelihoods in support of the Great Green Wall Initiative and to accelerate progress towards its objectives.
The webinar will showcase impactful women’s success stories in land restoration, activism and green businesses through keynotes, videos and a high-level panel discussion. Beyond networking and cross-learning, the webinar is expected to raise the profile and concerns of women in the GGW, and influence the African Union, GGW officials, decision makers, donors and development practitioners towards better collaboration in, financing of, and support for women-led initiatives, particularly those involving rural women.
Array ( [0] => UTC )Our planet’s drylands don’t have the lush abundance of a rainforest, but they’re quietly teeming with species that have evolved to handle their extremes, and providing homes, food, and livelihoods for billions of people, too. Yet these ecosystems are also particularly vulnerable to disruption and desertification—and such changes can be permanent.
The UN passed its Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in 1994; to this day, it’s the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management.
Thirty years on, the UNCCD will gather in December of 2024 to reflect on the progress made so far—and the challenges that lie ahead – under the three focus areas of land restoration; women’s land rights; and land at the heart of the SDGs. As a global centre of excellence for soil and land restoration, integrated soil information, and soil organic carbon accounting, CIFOR-ICRAF will have a powerful presence at UNCCD COP16.
Join us in Riyadh or online to be part of this critical global conversation.
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