By promoting climate-smart landscapes, the Working Landscapes programme will contribute to climate change mitigation, adaptation, improved livelihoods and environmental integrity, which are crucial to achieving the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Forests and trees in well-managed landscapes have the potential to contribute significantly to climate change mitigation and adaptation, while supporting people’s livelihoods and sustaining agricultural value chains.
The ‘Forests for a Just Future’ programme of the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) will contribute to the protection of tropical forests and the people who directly depend on those forests. With partner organisations in Africa, South East Asia and South America the GLA works to govern tropical forests in a sustainable and inclusive way.
By promoting a landscape approach for fire management, the Fire-Smart Lanscape Governance Programme as part of the Working Landscapes programme will contribute to establish fire-smart landscape management. This should result in reduced or eliminated risk of extreme wildfire events for the benefits of sustainable use of forest and trees, contributing to climate-smart landscapes.
Developing innovative finance for climate action using a landscape approach
Across tropical forested landscapes, increasing numbers of rural youth are leaving their communities in search of better opportunities. This trend raises concerns not only for the wellbeing of these young people but also for the future of tropical forests. As youth leave, communities are ageing, leaving forest territories vulnerable to deforestation and other threats. Precious traditional knowledge is being lost every day across the tropics, and with each departure youth is being disconnected from their forested landscapes.