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Carbon Finance Webinars

About this course

This webinar series on carbon finance targets economic actors (especially ecopreneurs), local project developers (incl. GLFx chapters and restoration stewards) and young professionals/students, and seeks to increase understanding on key carbon finance aspects, while highlighting the opportunities for local action. 

The series of webinars gathers inputs from carbon finance experts, while also providing insights through real life case studies. The sessions are highly interactive, with freedom to ask questions throughout and working group activities to gain a deeper understanding of the material. 

This program is organized in the framework of the Luxembourg-GLF Finance for Nature Platform and was launched during the platform’s Digital Forum on Sustainable Finance for Nature-based Solutions. 

Webinar objectives: 

  • Increase understanding for local stakeholders on key carbon finance concepts 
  • Highlight ways to generate carbon revenues in various land use project types and business models 
  • Specify the steps to monetize carbon benefits

Skills Accelerator: Project Management

About this course

The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), and the Youth in Landscapes (YIL) initiative welcome you to this project management micro-learning course! 

Feeling overwhelmed by projects? In this micro-learning course, we’ll demystify project management, breaking down complex concepts into manageable, actionable steps. Whether you’re a seasoned professional looking to refine your skills or a beginner eager to learn the fundamentals, these short modules will equip you with practical tools and techniques to successfully streamline all your projects. From introducing you to project management tools and methodologies and showing you how to apply them in real-world scenarios, to staying focused when things get hectic – we’ve designed each module to give you actionable steps, supporting you to manage projects with confidence and clarity!

By the end of this micro-learning, we hope you’ll be able to:

  • Understand the basic elements of managing a project.
  • Learn about and apply relevant project management tools and methodologies.
  • Create and implement a project management plan.
  • Learn to remain focussed!
  • Understand the importance of conducting Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E).
  • Evaluate approaches and methodologies for M&E in environmental projects.

Skills Accelerator: Public Speaking

About this course

The Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), and the Youth in Landscapes (YIL) initiative welcome you to this public speaking micro-learning course! 

This micro-learning course equips you with the essential tools to become a confident and engaging public speaker. We’ll focus on practical techniques to share stories that really grab people’s attention, manage those pesky nerves, and add that personal touch to your public speaking. 

Each concise module delivers actionable strategies, empowering you to command the room whether you’re presenting to a large audience, leading a team meeting, or simply sharing your ideas with confidence. Let’s transform your public speaking from hesitant to impactful, one focused lesson at a time.

By the end of this micro-learning, we hope you’ll be able to:

  • Share compelling narratives using best practices.
  • Better tackle nerves using tips and lessons learned.
  • Understand what to avoid, and key steps in public speaking.
  • Combine emotions and personal stories to enhance your narratives.

Navigating Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders

Regardless of industry, the global business sector is being transformed around a common issue: environmental sustainability. Business leaders around the world are grappling with meaningful efforts to address climate issues relevant to their organizations. In this course, the chief environmental officer at Microsoft, Dr. Lucas Joppa, discusses some of the most pressing questions surrounding this critical topic. Dr. Joppa frames this course not around a set of rigid rules companies should follow, but through methods for individual companies to evaluate what strategies fit best and how to leverage existing strengths to make the biggest impact. By following just a few of the key principles and concepts Dr. Joppa lays out, companies can ensure that they are not only prepared for the business transformations that lie ahead, but are key architects of it, leading the way on a vital issue.

Le financement durable de la restauration des forêts et des paysages

Pour respecter les engagements nationaux des pays en matière de restauration des paysages dégradés, des investissements publics et privés adéquats sont nécessaires pour soutenir les différentes étapes du cycle de la RFP. Les sources de financement sont plus efficaces lorsqu’elles sont utilisées de manière coordonnée.

Ce cours a été conçu pour améliorer la sensibilisation et les capacités des praticiens et des décideurs politiques à analyser les besoins et les opportunités de financement de la RFP, afin qu’ils obtiennent des financements et les coordonnent de manière plus efficace pour les interventions de RFP.

Configuration requise

La version en ligne de ce cours fonctionne sur les dernières versions des principaux navigateurs, tels que Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox et Apple Safari.

La version téléchargeable ne fonctionne que sur les PC Windows et aucun logiciel supplémentaire n’est nécessaire.

Public cible

Ce cours est destiné à un éventail de parties prenantes intéressées par la restauration des forêts et des paysages, notamment aux praticiens et décideurs politiques provenant des institutions suivantes :

  • Organisations et donateurs internationaux et régionaux
  • Gouvernements nationaux
  • Secteur privé
  • Organisations non gouvernementales
  • Instituts de recherches et universités

Vous en apprendrez plus sur les thèmes suivants

  • Les coûts et avantages de la RFP et les besoins de financement liés
  • Ce qui rend un paysage prêt à faire l’objet d’un investissement
  • Les différents types d’investisseurs et leurs priorités
  • Les obstacles à l’accès à l’investissement pour la RFP et à la création d’un environnement favorable
  • Les mécanismes financiers et commerciaux pour le financement des interventions de RFP
  • L’importance de coordonner différents types d’investissements et de mécanismes financiers pour soutenir la RFP
  • L’importance de la communication et de la construction et du renforcement des alliances

Structure du cours

Le cours est organisé en 3 leçons d’environ 35 à 55 minutes chacune:

  • Leçon 1 – Introduction au financement de la RFP
  • Leçon 2 – Favoriser le financement de la RFP
  • Leçon 3 – Les mécanismes de financement des investissements locaux dans la RFP

 

Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience

Nature offers many solutions for reducing the impacts from disasters and climate impacts. This may include protecting forests on steep slopes, maintaining sand dunes along coastlines, wetlands to buffer excess rainwater. These so-called ‘Nature- based solutions’ (NbS) are an important piece in the puzzle to building the resilience of households and communities to an ever-increasing number of disaster events around the world.

For years, experience and evidence on NbS from around the world has been growing. But many people – from policy makers, through to engineers and businesses – don’t yet know how NbS can help them solve the challenges they’re facing from events like floods, heatwaves, or droughts. These events affect the lives of millions of people every year.

So, what are ‘Nature-based solutions’, or NbS? How can they help build resilience to disasters and climate change impacts? Why is NbS relevant? How can I apply NbS in my work and everyday life?

In this online course, UNEP and environmental experts from around the world will provide you with answers to those questions, reaching out to you and me, to planners, policy makers, engineers, businesses, and youth. This is an opportunity for you to join a community of learners and environmental advocates.

First touching upon the “why”, the course provides an introduction to nature-based solutions for disaster and climate resilience, the benefits and potential opportunities. Then, specific modules aimed at different target audiences will focus on the practical application of nature-based solutions, the “how”.

What you’ll learn

  • Learn how to apply Nature-based Solutions in enhancing resilience to disasters and climate change, whether you are a youth leader, practitioner, policy maker, engineer or business owner
  • Learn about how human activities are interlinked with ecological systems and main tools and approaches for applying Nature-based Solutions to reducing disaster and climate risks
  • Learn how policy makers are including nature as a solution in policy processes for reducing disaster and climate risks
  • Learn how practitioners are applying nature-based solutions for reducing risks of natural hazards by investing in restoration and protection
  • Learn about green infrastructure and designing with nature as a viable complement to grey engineered protection structures for reducing impacts of disaster events
  • Learn what young people and teachers, policy makers, practitioners, businesses and engineers can do to get involved in our race against the climate emergency

 

Ecosystem Restoration

Do you want to become more skilled at preventing, halting, and reversing the degradation of ecosystems? Registration is open for a FREE Massive Open Online Course on Ecosystem Restoration offered by the United Nations Development Programme and the Convention on Biological Diversity. 

This course compiles research from leading institutions engaged in ecosystem restoration to build awareness and skills on the process of restoring ecosystems. It is based on the Short-Term Action Plan on Ecosystem Restoration (STAPER) – a methodology adopted by countries under the CBD to support governments and others in the development and implementation of restoration strategies.

The course starts on 19 September 2022.  It is open to the public and designed to support creation of blueprints for implementing ecosystem restoration. The course will be available in English, French, and Spanish.

What you’ll learn:

By the time you complete Part 1 of this course, you will be able to:

  • Define ecosystem restoration and explain its importance 
  • Outline the types of ecosystems and ecosystem services
  • Explain approaches to and principles of restoration

 

Food and Nutrition Security in Urbanizing Landscapes

In the midst of changing landscapes and expanding urban spaces, there is an increasingly heavy burden placed on limited natural resources such as water and land. This competition for resources places rural areas, which are key for food production, under pressure – causing serious impacts to food and nutrition security

Over and undernutrition are on the rise in these landscapes with consumers stuck in food deserts and producers having difficulty finding profitable markets, leading to a rise in  lifestyle related diseases, such as obesity and heart disease, as well as increased mortality and poor childhood development. City governments and urban planners can play a key role in addressing these issues by putting food on the urban agenda, yet many cities lack a food agenda.

In this course produced by the Global Landscapes Forum’s partner organisation Wageningen University & Research, you will learn to look beyond the boundaries of your personal expertise and geographic location. Taking on an integrated spatial and food systems perspective to open up possibilities, bringing about structural change, and acquainting you with a variety of tools to analyze food and nutrition issues and their relation to your rural-urban landscape, enabling you to mobilize key stakeholders in your rural-urban landscape.

FAO E-Learning Series to Address the Transparency Framework in GHG Inventories

Sustainable and reliable national GHG inventories are essential instruments for assessing efforts to address climate change and progress made towards the goals of the Paris Agreement. The FAO Transparency Team is developing a series of online courses that support countries in building a sustainable GHG inventory under Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF).
So far, three courses have been developed, and made available to all interested climate experts, especially those tasked with the preparation of national GHG inventories. The first course “Preparing a greenhouse gas inventory under the Enhanced Transparency Framework” provides an overview of reporting requirements under ETF together with basic steps for the preparation of GHG inventory. The other two courses provide practical guidance to estimate emissions and removals from the agriculture and land use sectors.  Two more courses are under development, focusing on estimating ‘uncertainty in
emissions/removals in agriculture, forestry and land use’ and ‘GHG emissions from livestock at tier 2’.
By covering fundamental concepts and providing step-by-step exercises, these courses allow users to understand the ETF process and apply the knowledge acquired in the given simulations, as they proceed with learning. This is a collaborative effort between FAO and UNFCCC that aims to strengthen institutional and technical capacities of national entities in the transition towards the ETF. For other related tools and updated resources, visit the FAO’s tools and resources page for ETF.
Go to courses:
1. Preparing a greenhouse gas inventory under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
2. The national greenhouse gas inventory for agriculture
3. The national greenhouse gas inventory for land use

Agricultural Water Management: Water, Society and Technology Interactions

Worldwide, a variety of processes puts more pressure on water resources every day. Global climate change causes temperatures to rise and precipitation patterns to change. A growing degree of urbanization causes people to move from the countryside to the cities. This results in increased competition over water resources, like rivers and groundwater, between
cities and their surrounding areas. Furthermore, population growth and rising global welfare create an increased demand for food.
The growing demand for food must be obtained using existing agricultural land, since we are already dealing with scarcity of new farmland. Yet, the potential of increased production in the existing rain-fed agricultural areas is low.

Sustainable water management; various perspectives to consider:
The combination of the processes described above create an urgent need for improved agricultural water management, with agriculture being the dominant water user worldwide. In our search for sustainable solutions the management and governance regarding irrigation and drainage should take a number of water related aspects into account. These include:
• The different perspectives of involved uses and users
• Spatial levels, from farm, to scheme, to river basin
• Effects on both upstream and downstream water users

Putting theory into practice
In this MOOC, we will focus on the role agricultural water management plays in this global context of sustainable water and food supplies. The online course consists of several learning modules, combined with a case study.
We start by taking a deep dive into practical and technical aspects, from crop characteristics and irrigation water requirements to actual field practices. Subsequently, we explore the institutional perspective, from models of rural development to water management demands. The case study videos and interviews from Morocco create the opportunity for you to directly apply your newly acquired knowledge in a real-life situation.

Who is this course for?

This MOOC is for anyone with basic knowledge of social and biophysical sciences, ready to contribute to improving agricultural water management from where they are. Are you ready? Enrol today!

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