Key Messages

• Holistic Framework: Territorial approaches foster coherent governance by integrating social, environmental, and economic dimensions.
• Inclusive Development: These approaches address inequalities, prioritizing women, youth, indigenous peoples, and marginalized communities.
• Resilience and Sustainability: They support sustainable food systems, climate adaptation, and biodiversity protection.
• Lessons Learned: The updated 2023 White Paper builds on key milestones since 2018, offering actionable recommendations for policymakers, donors, and practitioners.
• Global Importance: Territorial approaches are essential for bridging rural-urban divides and aligning local actions with global SDG ambitions.

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About the 6th GLF Investment Case Symposium

Hosted in Luxembourg and online, GLF–Luxembourg Finance for Nature 2023: What comes next? united 4,500 participants from 160 countries around how finance can solve – rather than exacerbate – the climate and biodiversity crises. The event featured 106 speakers and 100 global and local partner organizations and reached 10 million people on social media, with more than 230,000 engagements.

About this session

This session provides an overview of Luxembourg’s sustainable finance journey, the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Strategy, and the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative (LSFI). It dives deeper into what the LSFI Action Plan is and its related activities.

The LSFI is Luxembourg’s coordinating entity on sustainable finance. It is a non-profit organization founded by the Luxembourg Government, Luxembourg for Finance, and the High Council on Sustainable Development. Their aim is to promote sustainable finance in Luxembourg and help the financial sector transition towards increased sustainability.

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About UNCCD

The largest, most influential event on how governments are handling land is the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, which this year convened for the 15th time: UNCCD COP15.

For two weeks in May, leaders ranging from presidents, ministers, and financiers to heads of the community and youth representatives gathered in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire to strategize how to limit land degradation, raise funds for sustainable land management, and further the land rights of marginalized groups, women and young people.

TMG at COP 15

TMG and partners bring the “Rights to Land” agenda to COP 15. TMG co-hosted four side events at the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 15) that explored practical entry points to empower communities that depend most on land and natural resources to claim their legitimate rights and fulfill their rightful roles as stewards of these precious resources for the benefit of people and planet.

This video presents highlights of TMG participation and reflections from diverse partners and collaborators. Many thanks to the various speakers and contributors to the events. ​ TMG participation at COP 15 was supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

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GLF Climate 2021: As it happened

Marfrig, farming in favor of sustainability

The current food system definitely cannot remain as it is. As a relevant player in the production of proteins, Marfrig intends to show what paths it is following to establish itself as a resilient company and a driving force for a “chain effect” in Brazilian livestock farming in favor of sustainability.

Resources

Brazilian Beef-Cattle Production and It’s Global Challenges

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Robert Nasi, Director General of CIFOR-ICRAF, closes GLF Biodiversity live from Bogor, Indonesia.

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The potential that integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) could have in replenishing the Earth’s ecosystems while concurrently tackling global and societal challenges is staggering. Yet, despite featuring prominently in UN Conventions as promising solutions to climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity and socioeconomic disparity, they remain underresearched, underreported and, as a result, untapped by societies worldwide.

In this session, experts explore the multitude of cross-sectoral applications for ILAs, breaking down their core design principles, while outlining key barriers to their implementation and adoption. The discussion is framed against the preliminary findings of the COLANDs initiative, an interorganizational pilot project currently implementing ILAs in Ghana, Zambia and Indonesia.

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HOSTS: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) with Satoyama Initiative, LandScale, UNU-IAS, HoARECN – African Landscape Dialogue

The various changes around the world is gradually telling us about the need for a huge transformational shift in our biodiversity. This move calls for the collaboration of all actors espaecially the non state actors to help achieve the post 2020 global biodiversity goals. This session highlight and discuss the landscape based approaches and initiatives by non state actors to help in achieving the GBF.

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This paper and its accompanying session seek to kickstart a research revolution on the effectiveness and multi-sectoral functionality of ILAs by showcasing the preliminary findings of the Collaborating to Operationalise Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development and Sustainability (COLANDS) initiative, an interorganizational pilot project currently implementing ILAs in Ghana, Zambia and Indonesia.

Watch the corresponding session that took place at the GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World – One Health here: Collaborating to operationalize landscape approaches for nature, development and sustainability (COLANDS)

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In this paper, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), the IUCN and GIZ assess the viability of modern agriculture against the backdrop of Covid-19, bringing to light the strains that economic downturns, declining exports and restrictions on travel have placed on food systems around the world, while laying out the steps necessary to drive transformative change and cultivate resilience in agricultural landscapes going forwards.

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GLF Bonn 2020

How to feed the world without eating the planet? The 2020 theme of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is “Food and Livelihoods.” Today, food production and agricultural systems are one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, a main driver of deforestation, and the greatest threat to biodiversity. It’s time to transform this problem into an opportunity.

GLF 2020 is the first environmental digital conference of its kind – with over 300 speakers, hundreds of organizations, 235,000 engagements on social media, 22,000 messages plus 2,500 articles exchanged among participants – highlighted the need for platforms like GLF to continue including the voices of diverse knowledge holders from every corner of the world.

Sustainable wood value chains are contributing to food security  in Sub-Saharan Africa

One of the most important contributions of forests to food security is the provision of wood fuel. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 60% of households use wood fuel to cook, boil water, and preserve food. But unsustainable wood fuel production and trade are depleting and degrading forests and trees.

Despite its socio-economic importance, woodfuel production and trade is still a mostly informal sector. It is not organized, it has weak or inadequate legal frameworks, and it contributes little to government revenues.

The lack of woodfuel governance, in combination with increasing demand, results in unsustainable wood harvesting that causes forest degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. In contrast, sustainable woodfuel value chains can positively contribute to livelihoods, by generating both household income from trade and a secure supply of cooking fuel, while mitigating negative environmental impacts.

There is a need for an integrated approach to woodfuel value chain dynamics that considers multiple functions of forest-agricultural landscapes and outcomes for livelihoods and forest governance.

This session provides documented experience on how better practices within woodfuel value chains and related governance can positively transform woodfuel sectors to benefit livelihoods, through both energy supply and income-generating activities, while reducing negative environmental impacts on forest-agricultural landscapes and mitigating climate change.

Check out the GLF Bonn Digital Conference 2020 Outcome Statement.

Originally titled “Sustainable wood-fuel value chains for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa”, this session hosted by CIFOR aired on June 4th, 2020 at the GLF Bonn Digital Conference.

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