CIFOR at Climate Week NYC 2019
The Center for International Forestry Research will take part in the upcoming Climate Week New York on 23 to 29 September 2019. Join our sessions and be part of the climate movement to save the future of the Earth, our one and only home.
Sessions
- 23 Sep
- 26 Sep
- 27 Sep
- 28 Sep
Convene - 101 Park Ave, New York
Nature’s Climate Hub Big Ideas Talk: Peatlands for a 1.5 Degree Future
Millions of people around the world depend on peatlands for their livelihoods, often using unsustainable agricultural practices. Healthy peatlands provide food, clean water and other benefits to nearby communities. They can also help prevent droughts, floods and intrusion of salt water into agricultural areas.
Speaker:
Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia
18.30-21.00
The United Nations Environment Programme Champions of the Earth 2019 Gala
Champions of the Earth is the United Nations’ flagship global environmental award. It was established by the UN Environment Programme in 2005 to celebrate outstanding figures whose actions have had a transformative positive impact on the environment.
17.00-20.00
The cruise is part of a collaboration between GLF and Greenpoint Innovations NYC Waste Management, Broadway Stages and the Newtown Creek Alliance to raise awareness about restoration through climate-focused street art that will be unveiled around the city throughout Climate Week. A hybrid-electric boat will take members of the GLF community as well as other Climate Week and NYC VIPs from Manhattan to Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek, which was once one of the most polluted industrial sites in the U.S. and has now been nurtured back to health through technological and traditional restoration methods. Passing street art murals illustrating the beauty of ecosystem restoration, the cruise will travel up the creek to one of the city’s largest rooftop gardens for cocktails among wildflowers and landing spots for migratory birds before returning back to the city
07.30-18.30
UN HQ Compound, New York
Global Landscapes Forum New York
GLF New York 2019: Restore the Earth: Help define the most important Decade of the century.
Join 750 VIPs, celebrity activists, policy, business and Indigenous leaders, global experts, heads of UN and international agencies and tens of thousands around the world participating in the GLF digital edition.
10.35-11.15
UN HQ Compound, New York
CIFOR-ICRAF Session at GLF New York – Resetting the Restoration Agenda
The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration is a game-changing initiative to massively ramp up restoration of degraded ecosystems and fight the climate crisis while enhancing and protecting food security, water supply and biodiversity. Collaboration and leveraging both evidence-based and traditional knowledge will be crucial as communities, governments and businesses around the world prepare to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in projects in the coming years.
Speakers:
CIFOR-ICRAF Principal Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF Senior Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF Scientist
CIFOR-ICRAF ScientistModerator:
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Contact
For any inquiries, including media interviews, regarding CIFOR research and climate change work, please contact Jeremy Van Loon at Jeremy.VanLoon@cgiar.org.
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