The Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) consists of a geospatial platform and a registry of restoration initiatives. It is the official monitoring platform for tracking global progress and disseminating good practices for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. It also supports countries in reporting areas under restoration for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Target 2.

How to navigate FERM

This guidance document provides an overview of how to use the FERM. The document covers information about the FERM ‘s objectives, the context within the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and its role in supporting countries with reporting on areas under restoration for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) Target 2 indicator. Furthermore, it provides step by step instructions on how to use FERM, including the FERM registry, the FERM geospatial platform and the FERM Search engine

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The PILA geoportal

PILA supports the ILM process to make easy and fast use of relevant and reliable geospatial information at different spatial levels. This includes leveraging on existing global, regional, national and sub-national data through a dedicated geospatial platform. The PILA geospatial platform, is a web-based global platform targeting all 27 FOLUR countries and hosted in the FAO Earth Map tool from the Open Foris suite. It is meant to allow any user, without background in programming, to access and analyse remote sensing data with known accuracies on biophysical, socioeconomic and productive conditions (e.g. on productivity trends, land use change dynamics, tree cover loss, land degradation, restoration opportunities, etc.). The PILA geoportal leverages the petabytes of multitemporal, multiscale, multiparametric, and quasi-real-time satellite imagery and geospatial datasets from Google Earth Engine and other qualified sources. It also offers advanced analytical functionalities through a point-and-click graphical user-friendly interface, taking advantage of Google cloud services, and allowing quick environmental and climate data analysis as well as land monitoring over an area of interest.

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About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

The GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference, held on October 11 and 12, convened global thought leaders to set the stage for COP28, the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. This pivotal event mobilised action on critical issues affecting humanity, biodiversity, and our planet.

The conference featured two focused days: Day 1 centered on “Africa’s Sovereign Solutions,” exploring pathways to a sustainable and prosperous future for the continent. Day 2, dedicated to climate, aimed to craft a “Survival Guide for a Planet in Crisis,” paving the way for a fairer world ahead of COP28.

GLF Nairobi brought together a diverse coalition of influential voices, ranging from scientists, activists, and Indigenous leaders to financiers, women, youth, policymakers, and private sector representatives. As a united front, we collectively championed change and passionately advocated for meaningful action in these pivotal times.

About Otto Scharmer

Embark on an enlightening journey with Otto Scharmer as he guides us through a system thinking-based reality meditation. Otto, a senior lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of the Presencing Institute, has spent two decades empowering leaders to embrace transformative cross-sector systems.

Pioneering the ‘presencing’ concept through bestselling books like Theory U and Presence, Otto brings us closer to learning from the emerging future. His vision, shaped by early experiences on a family farm in Germany, emphasizes nurturing the social field as the core condition for visible transformations.

Join us in delving into Otto’s profound insights on regenerative leadership and the transformative shift from ego to eco, an essential stride towards a better world.

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GLF Climate: Frontiers of Change

Download the session resources

• White paper A Holistic Early Warning-Early Action System for Transboundary Threats
• Presentation Early Warning Systems (EWS) & Desert Locust Information System

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This white paper introduces the context and objectives of the GLF Africa digital conference session “Innovative solutions to strengthen resilience in the drylands“. The session will present the landscape of innovations in drylands and conflict-affected countries in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel; benchmark success factors for innovations to have impact; as well as discuss opportunities and challenges of sustainably scaling innovations.

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In the digital age, when we are bombarded by media and competing narratives from all directions, awareness is key. Are we passive or active in what stories we consume? How well-versed are we in the digital lexicon, and what does this mean for our position in society? How does today’s media foster relationships, and between whom? Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff discusses communicating climate change in the digital landscape at GLF Bonn 2020.

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The recent IPCC report showed that our food systems are estimated to cause up to 29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This is due to unsustainable crop and livestock production as well as deforestation. Estimates show that agriculture is responsible for 80% of deforestation worldwide. The world is on the cusp of a new technological era, meaning most of our food could stem from unicellular life in the lab, and not from farms.

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Is lab-grown food a solution to the climate crisis?

This conversation with experts from around the world will explore the issues and key questions related to recent trends towards lab-grown food, that in turn could impact the amount of soil-grown food and therefore, the farmers that grow it. Policymakers, journalists, activists, health experts, funders and philanthropists, farmers and anyone interested in the future of food are invited to join.

MODERATOR: Peter A. Minang
SPEAKERS: Walter Willett, George Monbiot, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Julia Lernoud, Gunnar Rundgren

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Sustainable and inclusive landscapes are landscapes in which all stakeholders are engaged in the design and implementation of, and learning from, actions that increase the sustainability of that landscape. Finance flowing into such landscapes currently addresses mainly the needs for prime materials of large vertically integrated companies, including infrastructure for transport and processing plants. A growing proportion of these investments considers its social or environmental impacts on the landscape and people living in those landscapes, but in spite of that, the reduction in deforestation and forest degradation rates, as well as in poverty, hunger and inequity lag behind. Partially this is due to no or insufficient or only partial application of sustainability criteria in investment selection, partially and also to a lack of consideration of smallholder, SME and community (SSC) initiatives. New ways have been developed to unlock funds towards investments that efficiently and effectively contribute to sustainability and inclusiveness – innovative finance. Examples are blended finance and green bonds.

In spite of creating opportunities for reaching SSC initiatives, these new forms of finance still struggle with the same barriers as more conventional finance. Investors find few investible SSC projects, while SSC initiatives find it hard to access finance. In order to help narrow this financing gap, and mainstream inclusiveness and sustainability criteria in financial decision making, two of the partners of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA), Tropenbos International and CIFOR, started a dialogue to identify the main barriers and seek examples of initiatives that overcame them.

This dialogue started with a set of interviews with key informants along the international flow of finance towards landscapes in low- and middle income countries. The results of these interviews were discussed in a digital summit with an investment manager, a representative of the forest governance and economics group of the FAO and an Ugandan NGO. During these interviews and discussions, a number of barriers, possible ways to overcome them and promising initiatives were described. A literature review complemented this information and resulted into a document which is currently being discussed by members of a community of practice set up for this purpose on the GLFx platform. In the panel discussion that FTA organizes at GLF Luxemburg (30 November 2019) we will build on this dialogue and propose some concrete steps that financial institutions, fund managers, NGOs and Civil Society Organizations can take in the short term to help to bridge the gap between SSC initiatives and available climate and SDG-related finance.

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