EU Green Paper on forests and climate change: missed opportunity
ShareIn March 2010, the European Commission launched an EU-wide consultation to find out whether the EU should increase its efforts to protect forests under a changing climate. The main challenges...
View ArticleBiodiversity in suspense
ShareBy our executive director, Simone Lovera Halfway the second week, everybody is holding its breath here at the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties: Will the 10th Conference of the Parties end up...
View ArticleThe Luna talks?
About REDD, LULUCF and Luna-talks By Simone Lovera, Sobrevivencia-Paraguay and Global Forest Coalition Of course, when we arrived in Cancun and realized that the meeting venues were called Cancun...
View ArticleREDD+ Finance should be Public, include “Non-carbon” Benefits, says South
(cross-posted from Third World Network Bangkok Climate News Update No. 4) Bangkok, 31 August (Hilary Chiew) – Developing countries continue to stress that forest-related activities under the UN...
View ArticleUN Postpones Action to Halt Deforestation by 10 Years under Pressure from...
[New York] The Global Forest Coalition [1] reacted furiously to the final draft of the Sustainable Development Goals released this week. Despite the fact that most Sustainable Development Goals were...
View ArticleSupport Communities to Conserve Real Forests, Stop Industry’s Fake Forests
PRESS RELEASE 2 September, Durban: In a press conference today, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] highlighted the need for governments to provide policy support for indigenous communities to...
View ArticlePlans for burning Namibian wood in German power plants denounced
Open Letter sent to Germany’s Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development 18 February 2021 — A project which would see large quantities of Namibian wood burned in German power stations, starting...
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“Net Gain” is a lose-lose for rights, gender justice and social equity in...
The concepts of “Net Gain” and “No Net Loss” have become popular in biodiversity conservation circles and are embraced in the first draft of a new global biodiversity framework released by the UN...
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Women leaders and Global Forest Coalition featured on Women Rising Radio
Recently, the work of Global Forest Coalition was featured on an episode of Women Rising Radio called “Deforestation Emergency.” Interviews were done with Bernarda Pessoa of CONAMURI in Paraguay and...
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GFC in the News: World Environment Day and the Importance of Community...
June 5 was World Environment Day. On that occasion, MongaBay interviewed GFC’s Executive Director Simone Lovera in an article about the “triple threat” of climate change, biodiversity loss and...
View ArticleRun Forests, Run! Six reasons why forests must run from Articles 6.2 and 6.4...
by Grupo Carta de Belém and Global Forest Coalition, 6 June 2022 As climate negotiators meet in Bonn, we want you to know the six big reasons why Articles 6.2 and 6.4 would be really bad for forests....
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Watch: GFC speaks at ‘Climate Justice Pathways for Real Zero, Real Finance,...
Bonn, Germany – Corporate Accountability International, Global Forest Coalition, Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement (APMDD) and Friends of the Earth Togo, all members of the Global Campaign to Demand...
View ArticleStolen land and fading forests in Chile: New report on conflict plantations
A new report from the Environmental Paper Network, GFC and Colectivo VientoSur reveals another case of “Conflict Plantations,” this time in Chile. Read in English / leer en español Chile’s military...
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Whose Land, Whose Forests? The Gendered Impacts and Colonial Roots of...
This issue of Forest Cover, Whose Land, Whose Forests? describes the harm that extractivist projects like mining and monoculture tree plantations are doing in communities across Africa and Asia and...
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Organising for an International Day of Action on Big Biomass on 21 October 2022
On the 21st of October 2022 the forests, climate and biomass working group invites all of its members and supporters to join us for an International Day of Action on Big Biomass! You are invited to...
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New Report: The State of Industrial Livestock in Asia and its Impacts on...
Report: The State of Industrial Livestock Farming in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and People’s Livelihoods Agriculture is by far the biggest driver of deforestation, according to the UN Food...
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A gendered perspective on the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free...
The Global Forest Coalition is pleased to bring you a new report, to continue the important messaging around the International Day of Rural Women: A Gendered Perspective on the Proposed EU Regulation...
View ArticleThe industrialisation of forest-based bioenergy in Nepal and its impacts on...
Download this report as a PDF The Industrialisation of Forest-Based Bioenergy Production in Nepal and Its Impacts on Women and Other Forest-Dependent Peoples By Bhola Bhattarai Introduction The...
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The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender...
False solutions to climate change are being increasingly called out and rejected by communities around the world. Real solutions that are rights-based and gender-transformative do exist, and they are...
View ArticleNew GFC report shines a spotlight on devastating impacts of false climate...
International Community Must End Greenwashing and Ensure Rights-Based, Gendered Response to Climate Crisis November 3, 2022, UTRECHT—The international community must reject false climate solutions...
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