The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is a collaborative, mobile platform for discussions leading to action on landscape restoration, rights, finance, food, and livelihood initiatives.
It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), supported by UN Environment and the World Bank.
The GLF will convene under the theme, ‘Rights in the Landscape,’ and focus on the issue of rights in addressing “the current environmental crisis.” Linking people to landscapes, GLF Bonn 2019 will explore the contributions of indigenous peoples, local communities, and rural and indigenous women and youth to achieving the SDGs and Paris Agreement on climate change, highlighting the transformative role of rights and rights-based approaches for securing a more just, sustainable and prosperous future for all.
Conference objectives:
- To amplify the transformational role of rights in the identification and implementation of solutions to sustainable development that address environmental challenges such as climate change;
- To enhance the global narrative that recognizes the men and women of indigenous and local communities as bearers of rights and solutions to our common challenges;
- To launch a new collaborative partnership that will develop best practice ‘Guiding Principles to Rights-Based Approaches’ to inform global policy agendas and interventions across the landscape for the benefit of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
VENUE:
Bonn, Germany
22-23 June 2019
Original source: GLF
Published on 27 May 2019
