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The New Vision for Earth Film Festival
Explore stories of biodiversity, climate, and land rights, highlighting solutions from the Global South at the New Vision for Earth Film Festival.
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What’s at stake at the COP16 desertification negotiations?
In this final episode of our ‘What the COP?!’ series, we covered some of the challenges and opportunities around desertification, land degradation and restoration.
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Continue exploring the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium
Re-watch 39 sessions and workshops hosted by 91 organizations and learn how sustainable finance and nature can thrive together.
WATCH REPLAY
The New Vision for Earth Film Festival
Explore stories of biodiversity, climate, and land rights, highlighting solutions from the Global South at the New Vision for Earth Film Festival.
REGISTER TO WATCH
What’s at stake at the COP16 desertification negotiations?
In this final episode of our ‘What the COP?!’ series, we covered some of the challenges and opportunities around desertification, land degradation and restoration.
WATCH REPLAY
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The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium: A Roadmap to Finance the Biodiversity Gap
25 October | Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Columbia and online
The stakes are immense: losing biodiversity means losing essential ecosystem services, livelihoods, food security and climate regulation.
On 25 October, at the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium alongside UN COP16, we explored how the world can reverse this trend and – most importantly – fund these efforts.
Join us for two days packed with plenaries, interactive and expert sessions, launches and more, and learn from leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and policymakers as we pave together a fairer world ahead of COP28.
GLF Africa 2024: Greening the African Horizon
17 September 2024 | Nairobi, Kenya, and online
Over 45% of Africa’s land is degraded - yet this continent’s vast natural resources offer countless opportunities for its people to champion sustainable landscape solutions and conserve precious ecosystems.
On 17 September, join us for a hybrid conference to find out how Africa can navigate the future of three shifting landscapes: forests and savannas, drylands, and freshwater and oceans.
Join us for two days packed with plenaries, interactive and expert sessions, launches and more, and learn from leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and policymakers as we pave together a fairer world ahead of COP28.
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Experts: global environmental goals are within reach, if national agendas don’t get in the way
On 25 October, alongside the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16), leading sustainable finance practitioners and changemakers will explore cutting-edge solutions for biodiversity finance at the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, titled “Rewarding Nature: A Roadmap to Finance the Biodiversity Plan.”
What is carbon neutrality?
How it differs from ‘net zero’ and why clarity matters for the climate
The Global South needs a just transition. What will it take?
We can’t afford to keep burning fossil fuels. Can poorer countries develop without them?
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