The GLF Forests 2025 Hybrid Conference, as it happened
Hosted in Bonn, Germany, and online, the GLF Forests 2025 Hybrid Conference: Defining the Next Decade of Action united over 3,000 participants from 145 countries, along with 105 speakers and over 50 global and local partner organizations to lay the foundations for a resilient, productive and just future for forests on the road from Baku to Belém.
The global event reached over 13 million people via social media and media channels, with more than 700,000 engagements.
Across 27 plenaries, expert sessions, side events, networking sessions and forest talks, the conference sparked vibrant conversations on what we need to do to save the forests before it’s too late.
Stay tuned for the event outcome statement!
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
With AI, it’s so much easier to combine very different data – ground data with points with camera trap data, satellite data – to get more information out of them. That will be a revolution in making primary data.
How can we bring more people from different sectors? How can we open this discussion to those that are not in the room? That’s another challenge for us in this next decade.
Over 90% of deforestation is caused by the expansion of agriculture. Every year, we lose more than 12 million hectares of forests. This loss is not just an environmental issue. It directly impacts livelihoods, communities and economies. So, protecting forests is not just a moral and environmental duty, but also an economic and social necessity.
We need to mobilize not just public funding but mobilize more high-integrity private investments, both in carbon markets, as well as working with agricultural production and other commodities on becoming more sustainable along the whole supply chain.
It's better to invest now in protecting the forest than in the future in trying to find out ways to produce food for a growing population. The paradigm of getting rid of native vegetation to perform agriculture – we need to change that paradigm into one in which forests are part of the production system.
We are living in a very complex world where science can have the power to interlink and solve complex situations: managing the landscape as well as allocating financing efficiently and effectively.
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