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Latest Draft Confirms TNFD’s Reputation as ‘The Next Frontier In Corporate Greenwashing On Nature’

Posted 8th November 2022 in News, Press releases, Forests and Climate Change

Press Release by Forests & Finance, 7 November 2022— Almost 18 months after the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) launched, its latest draft gives little reason to believe that the global corporations behind it can be trusted to develop a credible reporting system that would meaningfully shift business behavior on biodiversity. On Friday, the TNFD issued its third draft on its proposed framework for how businesses should report on nature-related risks. The TNFD is a taskforce made up of …


The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender Transformative Solutions to Climate Change

Posted 3rd November 2022 in Forest Cover, Resources and publications, Forests and Climate Change

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 the only way to prevent catastrophic global temperature rise. Policy-makers on forests and climate change must take these real solutions into account. Find out more in the latest issue of Forest Cover. Forest Cover 68 provides context on the difficult journey to achieving climate justice and the context in which GFC …


New GFC report shines a spotlight on devastating impacts of false climate solutions 

Posted 3rd November 2022 in News, Press releases, Forests and Climate Change

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 including carbon offsetting and burning of forest biomass, and ensure a rights-based, gendered response to the climate crisis if we are to have any chance of reigning in rising global temperatures, the Global Forest Coalition said as government officials and civil society leaders prepare to gather in Sharm el-Sheikh for the United Nations’ COP27 climate conference next …


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 …


A gendered perspective on the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

Posted 17th October 2022 in News, Resources and publications, Gender Justice and Forests, Forests and Climate Change

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 on Deforestation-Free Products. In a landmark attempt to curb deforestation, the European Commission and Parliament are considering a draft regulation that seeks to stop products that have caused forest degradation or deforestation from entering the EU market. It’s a complicated measure, and one that has been cheered by …


New Report: The State of Industrial Livestock in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and Livelihoods

Posted 29th September 2022 in Unsustainable Livestock Production, Resources and publications

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 and Agriculture Organisation. And most of the world’s agricultural territory is dedicated not to growing the rice or potatoes that end up on your dinner plate or the bananas in your breakfast bowl, but rather to livestock farming, including grazing animals and growing the crops used to fatten them …


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 …


Whose Land, Whose Forests? The Gendered Impacts and Colonial Roots of Extractive Industries

Posted 30th August 2022 in Forest Cover, Resources and publications, Extractive industries, tourism and infrastructure

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 makes the connections between colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy. Produced by the Global Forest Coalition’s campaign on Extractive Industry, Tourism and Infrastructure (ETI), it includes six case studies based on on-the-ground research by several of our member organizations in very different parts of the world. But they have a common problem: …


“Being a woman means resistance, to fight for the conservation of forests”

Posted 5th August 2022 in News, Gender Justice and Forests

By Valentina Figuera Martínez, Gender Justice and Forests Campaign coordinator | August 5, 2022 “What does it mean to be a woman in my territory today?” was one of the first questions asked by Johana Molina, from Colectivo VientoSur in Chile, at the Gender and Forests Workshop for Indigenous women leaders and local communities from Latin America and the Caribbean. The event, held online on July 25, brought together more than 20 rural and Indigenous women leaders from the region …


Stolen land and fading forests in Chile: New report on conflict plantations

Posted 11th July 2022 in Resources and publications, Forests and Climate Change

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 police were recently sent back to garrison Araucania in Southern-central Chile, where the pulp and paper industry is embroiled in a longstanding conflict with the Mapuche Indigenous people. This is not a good sign. Last November, former President Piñera declared a state of emergency in the area, and a …


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 …


GFC in the News: World Environment Day and the Importance of Community Conservation

Posted 7th June 2022 in GFC in the news, News

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 pollution. Along with other experts and NGO representatives, Lovera spoke about the need for effective forest conservation policies that prioritize local rights and protect livelihoods for women, peasants and others. We read: Simone Lovera, executive director of Global Forest Coalition, says that community conservation initiatives should be recognized because they know …


Global Forest Coalition featured on Women Rising Radio

Posted 3rd May 2022 in Forests and Climate Change, GFC in the news

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 Eva Cachaña of Trem Trem Mapu in Chile, as well as GFC’s executive director, Simone Lovera. They described the disproportionate impacts of extractivism and climate change on women and the repression of environmental and land defenders. They also spoke about what they are doing to address these problems. In conversation …


“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 …