On 19 March 2021 at 13:00 - 17:15 CET, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is hosting a webinar - "Nature at the heart of a global circular bioeconomy".
Forests, trees and landscapes have long played a role in economic development, with the rise and fall of societies coinciding with the health of farms, fields and forests and the availability of their biological resources as renewable sources of energy, building materials, food and other ecosystem services. Now, sustainable landscapes are more important than ever in protecting the world from accelerating climate change and helping to mitigate the runaway consumption of non-renewable resources.
This webinar is designed to be the world’s first conference examining the forest-based bioeconomy with a focus on the Global South. This webinar aims to bring together investors, scientists, forestry, agroforestry and landscape experts, practitioners, community and business leaders and policy makers to explore what it will take to shift to a circular bioeconomic model that supports people and the planet, putting nature at the heart of how we operate.