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Potentials and Risks of the African Forest Landscape Restoration (AFR100) Initiative

Posted 26th October 2022 in [:en]1Campaigns[:], Forests and Climate Change

by Philip Owen, published 25 October 2022 in germanclimatefinance.de | Commercial tree plantations are a major cause of land degradation and have no place in efforts to restore degraded ecosystems. Germany as one of the main supporters of AFR100 needs to act on excluding them from the initiative. Across Africa, commercial tree plantations are one of the driving forces of land degradation and all its devastating environmental and socioeconomic consequences. It’s for that reason alarm bells are ringing amongst communities …


The industrialisation of forest-based bioenergy in Nepal and its impacts on women and other forest-dependent peoples

Posted 21st October 2022 in Forests and Climate Change

  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 large-scale burning of forest biomass for energy, primarily through the use of wood pellets, has proliferated over the past 15 years. This growth has largely been fuelled by the false claim that the burning of forest biomass is carbon neutral—a flawed approach exploited in the climate accounting that helps …


Statement: Monoculture Tree Plantations Are Not Forests!

Posted 21st September 2022 in Forests and Climate Change, Extractive industries, tourism and infrastructure

By the African Biomass Working Group, a member of Environmental Paper Network’s Forests, Climate and Biomass Working Group and Global Forest Coalition member organisations in Africa September 21 is the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, when organisations around the world raise awareness about the impacts of monoculture tree plantations.  Forestry, afforestation and reforestation are often promoted by governments and corporations as a means of climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration. It is true that forests have many …


Organising for an International Day of Action on Big Biomass on 21 October 2022

Posted 13th September 2022 in News, Forests and Climate Change

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 participate in whatever way you are able, wherever you are in the world.  Details of the day Aims To raise awareness of the environmental and social impacts of burning forest biomass on an industrial scale.  To show that the impacts of burning big biomass …


CLARA Responds to UNFCCC Bonn Climate Talks

Posted 22nd June 2022 in UNFCCC, Press releases, Forests and Climate Change

After the most recent international climate negotiations in Bonn, the Climate Land Ambition & Rights Alliance (CLARA) has issued a press release providing updates and analyses on Paris Agreement Article 6 (market and non-market mechanisms), agriculture and ‘net zero’. They have concluded that non-market activities to help countries reduce emissions are ready to go, but that market rules may take years to be finalized. GFC’s Souparna Lahiri is quoted: The Glasgow Committee Work Programme under Article 6.8, which provides wider …


Watch: GFC speaks at ‘Climate Justice Pathways for Real Zero, Real Finance, and Real Action’, UNFCCC 2022 Side-Event

Posted 13th June 2022 in News, Forests and Climate Change, UNFCCC

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 Climate Justice, co-hosted a UNFCCC 2022 side-event ‘Climate Justice Pathways for Real Zero, Real Finance, and Real Action’ where they discussed pathways to rapidly enact a 1.5-centered just transition that decreases emissions to #RealZero, how to urgently scale up finance for adaptation, and Loss and Damage.  The speakers were Simone Lovera, …


Run Forests, Run! Six reasons why forests must run from Articles 6.2 and 6.4 of the Paris Agreement  

Posted 10th June 2022 in Forests and Climate Change

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. Here they are: Market mechanisms have already failed! Despite being unable to produce real emission reductions around the world, they continue to be boosted as the great bet to decarbonize economies and the ultimate goal of achieving climate neutrality, as expressed in …


IPCC’s missing pathways to real climate solutions: Towards a gender transformative and rights-based policy approach to climate modeling

Posted 6th June 2022 in Forests and Climate Change

By Coraina de la Plaza and Souparna Lahiri 6 June 2022 [This piece was published in a slightly different form in Down to Earth magazine] Climate negotiators are meeting in Bonn today to pick things up again after the last Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP26) in Glasgow. Since then, and as the world continues to experience the increasingly devastating effects of climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …


“Net Gain” is a lose-lose for rights, gender justice and social equity in biodiversity policy

Posted 1st March 2022 in Resources and publications, Forests and Climate Change, Extractive industries, tourism and infrastructure

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 Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). At the heart of these concepts are biodiversity offsets, which are supposed to compensate for environmental harm caused by extractive industry, infrastructure and other development projects. As scientists and local communities have pointed out, biodiversity offsets often fail to contribute to biodiversity conservation …


The Phantom of the COP21 Opera: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

Posted 8th December 2015 in Forests and Climate Change, News

by Oliver Munnion* Yesterday I went to a briefing at the COP21 summit on how realistic achieving a 1.5 degree target as part of the Paris climate deal is, as opposed to the 2 degree target that was first proposed. At the end of the briefing, I spoke to the climate scientist who had been outlining the case that 1.5 degrees is achievable, and handed him a copy of our new report, which questions all of the underlying assumptions of …


Comunicado sobre las Declaraciones del Ministro Gattini – Paraguay

Posted 11th March 2014 in Defending Rights, News

A propósito de las declaraciones del Ministro Gattini… Desde la campaña Ñamosêke Monsanto, que aglutina a las organizaciones abajo firmantes, 1.Saludamos la franqueza del ministro Gattini. Probablemente es el primer ministro que no intenta confundir a la opinión pública con un discurso ambiguo. Con determinación defiende un modelo de agricultura que intenta exterminar a la agricultura familiar campesina; claramente actúa como defensor de los sojeros y como portavoz de las grandes corporaciones internacionales. 2.Entendemos que es por causa del chip …


Aceh Plans to Clear 1.2 million Hectares of Protected Forest Trigger Alarm over Increase in Landslides, Floods and other Natural Disasters

Posted 13th March 2013 in News, Forests and Climate Change

[JAKARTA] An alarming admission from the chairman of the Aceh Government’s Spatial Planning Committee is fuelling serious concern over the potential illegal loss of 1.2 million hectares of Aceh’s protected forests, as was explained in detail at a press conference today in Jakarta. Tgk. Anwar, today, in the Aceh Post, stated that the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has accepted ‘almost 100%’ of the Aceh Government’s new spatial plan proposal. Earlier, he told the Sydney Morning Herald that Aceh was preparing …


Ironically Gender in the Fossil Patriarchy

Posted 13th December 2012 in Gender Justice and Forests, Press releases

Press statement by GenderCC–Women for Climate Justice – Doha, December 8th, 2012 The UNFCCC talks again failed to deliver an adequate response on the climate challenge. However, often unnoticed by the public, small steps are being taken to improve the international climate regime. Among others, a decision on gender balance has been adopted in Doha to improve the participation of women. However welcome this decision, GenderCC must express its deep disappointment at the watering down of the wording, from the initial insistence on gender …


Women and gender NGOs at COP 18 to hold “not in my name action” demand “fierce urgency and ambition now”

Posted 5th December 2012 in Press releases, Gender Justice and Forests, Forests and Climate Change

4 December 2012 For Immediate Release Doha, Qatar:  Women and Gender NGOs at COP 18 representing hundreds of women’s organizations and women environmental leaders around the world are calling on all NGOs and delegates present in Doha to 1) sign on to a group letter/online petition to governmental representatives and https://www.change.org/petitions/commit-to-fierce-urgency-and-ambition-in-solving-the-climate-crisis The letter (complete text below) decries the lack of sincere and effective actions on the part of the countries from the Global North and says that the COP has …


Sign-on: World Bank Out of Climate Finance

Posted 6th December 2010 in Forests and Climate Change, News

AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNMENTS Meeting at the 16th COP of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun People and communities throughout the global South need hundreds of billions of dollars each year to deal with the impacts of climate change, build resiliency and adopt alternative development pathways. The cost of compensation for past, present, and future damages due to climate change will only grow if, in addition, the necessary measures, are not taken in the …


Respect the rights of ‘Pachamama’ in UN Climate negotiations

Posted 21st April 2010 in Forests and Climate Change

Indigenous Peoples from across North America and their allies from around the world gathered at the invitation of Bolivian President Evo Morales in Cochabamba this morning for the kick-off of an historic conference on climate change and the “rights of Mother Earth.” Morales called this conference in the wake of failed climate talks in Copenhagen last year.