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GFC points out problems with forest offsets in Guyana
Guayana is a heavily forested country in South America, and according to reports, it’s becoming “the world’s newest petro-state.” Oil companies appear to be touting false solutions to climate impacts there, claiming that their exploitative activities in Guyana are “net zero,” but experts are raising alarm about this. Souparna Lahiri from the Global Forest Coalition was quoted in Climate Home News: The problem is that within the country, you are allowing the emissions to continue or even to rise, and …
Press Release: Human Rights and Environmental Concerns Found in UN-financed large-scale Livestock Project in Colombia
The United Nations-backed Green Climate Fund through &Green and the FMO (The Dutch Development Bank) and other climate financiers must halt financing false solutions to climate change and redirect support to community-based and more effective solutions to the climate crisis, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Movimiento Social Tejido Unuma de la Orinoquia, and Corporación Claretiana Norman Perez Bello (CCNPB) said today.
Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow: Agromandala
Agromandala is part one of Guardians of Earth’s Tomorrow, a new series of photo essays from the Global Forest Coalition. Through our series of photo essays in collaboration with organizations that are actively creating utopias today, we aim to remind us that not all is lost. We invite you to explore and share these initiatives, joining us on a journey towards much-needed hope during these times of crisis.
The Carbon Conspiracy: False Promises, Real Threats
In the comic book The Carbon Conspiracy, a peaceful rural community’s existence is rocked by the arrival of a carbon offset project. What at first appears to be a win-win deal for all involved is quickly exposed as a con by the Greenfuel Corporation.
Global Forest Coalition brings together Latin American members to plan future actions in the face of the climate crisis
Latin American and Caribbean members of the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) met on 17 November in a virtual regional assembly to establish thematic priorities and define collective advocacy actions in the face of the loss of forest ecosystems and biodiversity that has led to the current climatic and environmental crisis.
Delay, Distract and Deceive: BECCS Developments in South America, Africa and Asia
Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies are among the most problematic in carbon removal geoengineering. This two-part series analyses the status of BECCS in South America, Africa, and Asia and shows that BECCS is far from being the silver bullet to climate change that some actors portray it to be.
The Dark Side of Technology: Coltan Mining in the DRC and its Human Rights and Environmental Impacts
The human rights abuses and environmental degradation associated with coltan mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) demand immediate attention and action. International cooperation, transparent mining practices, and adherence to ethical standards throughout the supply chain are essential to mitigate the devastating impact of coltan extraction on both people and the environment.
Roots of Resilience Episode 2: Struggle and Hope
In this episode of Roots of Resilience, we hear that not only is change possible, but it is already happening. We speak with activists in Brazil and Uganda on the resistance to false solutions such as carbon capture projects and the negative impacts they impose on communities, particularly women in all their diversities. As well as first-hand information on the destructive nature of these projects, we also hear inspiring stories from the ground on paths to resistance and an equitable, just, and sustainable future for all.
‘Forests represent health’: An interview with Fundaexpresión on the International Day of Forests
Photo: Biodiversity monitoring workshop with children in the Selva Alto Andina in Suratá, Santander, Colombia On the International Day of Forests, the Global Forest Coalition salutes the work of our member organizations who work tirelessly to protect our forests, and the rights of local communities, women and Indigenous Peoples. They are often on the front lines of the struggle to ensure gender-just, rights-based approaches and responses to threats to our forests and environment. The capitalist, corporate, patriarchal capture of climate …
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Historical Deal for Biodiversity
By Simone Lovera, published 29 December 2022 by Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung In German – Auf Deutsch lesen / In Russian – Читать на русском It was an awkward incident: right at the moment that the Chinese environment minister serving as chairman of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD COP15) wanted to adopt what has been touted as the “Paris Agreement of biodiversity”, the representative of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) asked for the floor …
The Elephant in the COP15 Negotiations Rooms: Global Tourism and Its Impacts on Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples
By Souparna Lahiri in ECO While the World Travel and Tourism Council lobbies at the COP 15 Global Biodiversity Summit with its “Nature Positive Travel and Tourism” report in collaboration with the UN World Tourism Organisation, the multi-billion dollar industry’s impacts on biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples and local communities, especially women, is perhaps the most ignored issue in the corridors of the Palais de Congress. Wildlife tourism, which generated around 400 billion USD in 2019, has a direct correlation to …
Community participation from Central Asia in the Global Biodiversity Framework
Published in ECO on December 14, 2022 By Elena Kreuzberg, Global Forest Coalition (regional focal point for East and Central Asia) At COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal, we can see many delegates from different countries and regions of the world. The recent assessment indicates a participation of approximately 20,000 delegates. But there is one under-represented region. This is Central Asia. This time, only one environmental NGO from Kazakhstan – the Association for Conservation of Biodiversity …
The TNFD: What it is, who’s behind it and why it’s a major greenwashing risk
This week at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) will meet with regulators and host events to try to sell this corporate initiative as a solution to the biodiversity crisis. Yet few people understand what TNFD is really about. This 4-minute video explains it to you in plain language! Transcript of the video: You’ve probably never heard of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures – but it threatens to be …
Is the BRI in line with an “ecological civilization?” Whose future counts?
By Allie Constantine (Global Forest Coalition) in ECO, Vol. 65 7 December 2022 China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), hailed as being a new strategy to connect the world with Asia through various forms of trade, suffers from a lack of transparency around some of its more negative impacts. Worryingly, human rights abuses and environmental concerns (including massive risk for biodiversity [1]) are often left unaddressed, as a new briefing paper by the Global Forest Coalition analyses. Disasters including flooding, …
Briefing: Is the BRI Congruous with COP15’s Promise of an “Ecological Civilisation”?
As the parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) meet in Montreal, we’re looking at the need for real solutions to biodiversity loss and the big processes and factors that would seem to undermine the stated goals of the CBD. The Belt and Road Initiative is a massive infrastructure program that would have deep impacts on forests and other ecosystems on all continents, and specifically on Indigenous and local communities throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. What does this …
CBD COP15: Biodiversity’s ‘Paris’ or ‘Copenhagen’?
Commentary By Simone Lovera on www.boell.de // Русский ниже Just weeks after the failed United Nations Climate Summit in Egypt, UN member states will gather again from 7 to 19 December, this time in Montreal, for a similar conference on biodiversity. But the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD COP15), tasked with delivering a new framework to guide global biodiversity conservation, is already suffering bad omens. Despite positive signs, including potential recognition of the need to address government …
Press Conference: HOME Alliance Says No to ‘Removals’ and Geoengineering in UNFCCC Article 6.4.
WHO: Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), ETC Group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) WHERE: COP27, Press Conference Room 2 Luxor WHEN: Thursday, 17th November at 16:30-17:00 GMT+2 (local Egypt time) CONTACT: Laura Dunn, ETC Group (in Canada): +1 514 607 9979 / Björn Ecklundt, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in Egypt): +49 160 91392672 / Cate Bonacini (in US): +1-510-520-9109 (WhatsApp/Signal) Sharm El Sheikh – The Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance (HOME) is coming together …
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