We'd like to invite you to our upcoming Public Lecture!

Topic: The GLF Journey at 10: The transformation of a conference into a global movement and vehicle for world-wide political action

Speaker: John Colmey, Director at Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)

Abstract
In November 2013, a handful of organizations hosted a small conference at the University of Warsaw alongside COP19 to revisit a 200-year-old geographical concept called the Landscape Approach. Ten years later, the Global Landscape Forum (GLF), with the support of Germany’s BMZ and BMUV, has become a global movement that reaches tens of millions of people each year and a platform for change and political action. How did it happen? What makes GLF different? Why is it continuing to grow so fast? Why did 800,000 people from 120 countries engage in a three-hour forum just two months ago? What are the lessons, and where does it go from here? Can it change the world? John Colmey’s talk will take us on a journey of the GLF.