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The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case 2016

June 05, 2016

The Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case 2016 will take place on June 6th at the Royal Society in London. The event will connect key experts from the financial services industry with leaders from the corporate sector, senior government officials, project developers and leading thinkers, to take investments in sustainable landscapes to the next level. The 2016 gathering offers a unique platform for exploring the potential of private finance in enhancing livelihood, environment and food security benefits across the landscape. PROFOR, together with the World Bank and WRI, will host the...

PROFOR at the 2015 World Forestry Congress

September 06, 2015

The 14th World Forestry Congress (WFC) is hosted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 7-11 September, 2015 in Durban, South Africa, and brings together a range of stakeholders in support of sustainable forest management. Forests have a vital role to play in meeting significant development objectives, and in mitigation and adaptation against the impacts of climate change. But given alarming global rates of deforestation and increasing demand for timber and forest products, making the most of forests’ benefits over the long term requires a drastic change in how we...

PROFOR at the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum

December 05, 2014

PROFOR participated in the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum as an implementing partner for the event, co-host for a discussion session on forest knowledge products and tools (with IUCN and CIFOR) and convenor of a high-level session on adaptation-based mitigation. At the discussion session on the Role of Knowledge Products and Tools in Achieving More Sustainable Management of Landscapes for the Post-2015 Development Agenda on Saturday, December 6, KNOWFOR partners (CIFOR, IUCN and PROFOR) shared experiences with applying forest knowledge tools related to aspects of climate change and landscape...

Trends, Drivers and Tools for Private Investment in Forests: a launch event for two PROFOR studies

November 17, 2014

What factors cause private forest investment to flow to certain countries, and not others? What can countries do to attract forest investment and unlock more opportunities? Forest Management. On November 18, 2014, PROFOR, the World Bank, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) held an event to launch two PROFOR publications on private investment and finance in the forest sector that aim to answer these and other questions: Business Climate for Forest Investments: A Survey - an overview of a large diversity of tools to assess investment climate, their applicability...

“Enabling Productive Uses of Forests that Reduce Poverty, Create Jobs and Build Resilience” - a PROFOR Side Event at the IUFRO World Congress

October 22, 2014

On Thursday, October 9, the Program on Forests (PROFOR) convened a side event at the IUFRO World Congress on “Enabling Productive Uses of Forests that Reduce Poverty, Create Jobs, and Build Resilience” that addressed the challenge of meeting growing forest product demand in a manner that benefits the poor and manages resources in a sustainably. Diji Chandrasekharan Behr, PROFOR Manager and Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist, moderated a panel discussion among: Putera Parthama, Senior Adviser to the Indonesian Minister of Forestry on Economic Affairs and...

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