Media Release: International Environmental Organizations Condemn IKEA’s Logging of Old-growth Forests in Russia
The Swedish-owned international furniture retailer, IKEA, is logging old-growth forests and other high conservation value forests in Russian Karelia[1] through its subsidiary Swedwood. A petition has been launched by Swedish NGO Protect the Forest to help change IKEA and Swedwood’s destructive ways. Now other environmental organizations from all over the world are also expressing their concern and outrage.
Media Release: The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns
Obama’s Plan Bodes Ill for Human Rights and the Environment, New Report Finds
As U.S. President Obama announced his new “National Bioeconomy Blueprint” today, the Global Forest Coalition [1] unveiled its report, “Bio-economy versus Biodiversity“[2]. The report’s conclusions differ sharply from the President’s “Blueprint,” alerting policy-makers to the serious negative impacts the so-called bioeconomy will have on forests, forest-dependent peoples, and biodiversity.
The ‘bioeconomy’ promotes speculative markets for ecosystem-based products and services, which are increasingly promoted as a ‘green’ alternative to the fossil fuel economy. Trading in ‘ecosystem services’ such as forest carbon offsets is accompanied by a massive expansion of wood-based bioenergy and other biomass-based products. Read more »
40th issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition
We present the most recent version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.40. This issue includes articles referring to the past UNFCCC-COP17 in Durban, South Africa addressing topics such as the future of REDD, the new alliance against REDD and (Fake) Forest Day . It also includes a report on the Thematic Social Forum on Rio+20 as well as the Rio+20 Second Round of Informal-Informal negotiations and Third Intersessional Meeting of UNCSD in New York, last March.
You will also find a report on the Global Dialogue Seminar on Scaling Up Finance for Biodiversity carried out in March in Quito, Ecuador, and a critical outlook on the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SEFA) proposed during the last World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Read more »
