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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.
Examining “Sustainable” Livestock Intensification and Financing: A Critical Analysis of the Hacienda San José Case in Colombia
To tackle the climate crisis adequately, it is important that climate finance flows massively to initiatives that have real positive effects in terms of climate change mitigation and that have no negative effects on people and the environment. Can large-scale but so-called sustainable livestock initiatives stand this double test? Initial findings from field research of a large-scale livestock project in Colombia indicates that the risk of negative effects on people is significant.
Working to End the Financing of Factory Farming – GFC and the S3F campaign
Check out the latest newsletter from the Stop Financing Factory Farming (S3F) campaign to discover what we and coalition colleagues were up to over 2023 in efforts to document and redress the harmful impacts of industrial livestock and feedstock production.
GFC joins calls for IDB to reject loan request for cattle ranch expansion in Paraguay
The Global Forest Coalition has joined Centro de Estudios Heñói and Iniciativa Amotocodie, calling on IDB Invest of the Inter-American Development Bank to reject in its 1 November board vote a loan request of up to $20 million USD to Bancop Paraguay for the expansion of cattle ranching activities. We have written this letter, to which we are seeking to add as many signatures as possible, and we count on your solidarity and support! Please watch the video to …
New Report: The State of Industrial Livestock in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and Livelihoods
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 …
Op-ed: EU-Latin America Free Trade Agreements Fuel Food Crises Globally
by Lasse Bruun and A. Milena Bernal Rubio Newsweek, 15 June 2022 There is a grave misalignment between how the European Union (EU) conducts agricultural policy within and outside its borders. This is particularly evident in its trade relations with Latin America. The aspiration of inter-regionalism is to ease access for companies to regulated markets by giving them more legal protection, better geographical access and lower investment costs. However, integration projects and a strategic association between the European Union and the …
IDB Invest Drops Controversial Loan to Brazilian Beef Giant Marfrig Global Foods
WASHINGTON — Environmental, animal welfare, human rights and development advocacy groups and Indigenous communities are cheering today after learning that the IDB Invest, the private arm of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is no longer considering a $43 million loan package for Marfrig Global Foods’ (MRFG3.SA) Brazilian beef operations. The IDB Invest loan, which would have leveraged an additional $157 million from other sources, was originally scheduled for a board vote on December 8, 2021, which was then delayed to May 4, …
Letter of concern to the European Investment Bank (EIB) to stop finance for industrial livestock production
Over 20 organisations including the Global Forest Coalition have sent an open letter (copied below) to the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) calling on them to align their finances with the Paris Agreement by committing to a strategy that phases out the financing of industrial livestock production and calling for a transition to healthy, socially just, low-carbon and animal friendly food production systems. Considering the threat of the climate emergency, the shocking levels of forest destruction for livestock …
What’s at steak? The real cost of meat
Meat and Dairy industry destroying forests and biodiversity 5 Dec: Industrial meat and dairy production is one of the highest contributors to forest loss, and to climate change at 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report launched today by the Global Forest Coalition [1] at the Convention of Biodiversity in Cancun (CBD COP 13) [2], Mexico. Download the full report in English: High resolution (11.3 MB) | Low resolution (3.9 MB) and Spanish: High resolution (11.3 …
Report: Meat from a Landscape Under Threat
Global Forest Coalition and Brighter Green have just released a new Report, “Meat from a Landscape Under Threat: Testimonies of the Impacts of Unsustainable Livestock and Soybean Production in Paraguay.” Written by Dr. Miguel Lovera, this updated report on the social and environmental impacts of unsustainable livestock production focus on those testimonies presented at the workshop. The seminar, organized on November 28 and 29 of 2014 by the Global Forest Coalition together with national organizations in Paraguay, was entitled “Threats …
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