Global Forest Coalition
The Global Forest Coalition is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations that advocates for the conservation and restoration of forest ecosystems, through defending and promoting respect for the rights, territories, traditional knowledge and sustainable livelihoods of the Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women that co-exist with them.
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Carbon Credits Under Fire – Myanmar, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Crisis of Credibility Facing the UN’s “High-Integrity” Carbon Markets
A new report investigates the first-ever carbon credits issued under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement and finds a troubling intersection of climate finance, human rights abuses, conflict, and governance failures in Myanmar. The findings raise fundamental questions about the credibility of the UN’s new generation of “high-integrity” carbon markets.
Not Our Solution: Global South Civil Society Rejects Geoengineering
BONN, 11 June -- At the UN climate negotiations SB64, civil society organizations, grassroots movements, and climate justice advocates from across Africa, Asia, and Latin America came together today to strongly reject geoengineering as a false solution and dangerous...
Carbon Credits Under Fire – Myanmar, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Crisis of Credibility Facing the UN’s “High-Integrity” Carbon Markets
Download the report Read the press release The Global Forest Coalition, Myanmar Policy Institute, Plan 1.5, Biofuelwatch and Gibson Climate Justice Lab have published a new report examining the first-ever carbon credits issued under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement...
First UN Paris Agreement “High-Integrity” Carbon Credits Linked to Myanmar Junta, New Report Finds
Civil society organisations call for suspension and independent investigation into first-ever Article 6.4 carbon credits BONN 11 June, 2026—The first carbon credits issued under the Paris Agreement's flagship international carbon market mechanism are linked to a...
Our Campaigns
Climate Justice & Forests
GFC opposes corporate influence over climate and forest policy and exposes false solutions that harm ecosystems and communities, especially women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples. We defend forests, support community stewardship, and promote rights-based, gender-just approaches to climate mitigation for a fairer, more resilient world.
Gender Justice & Forests
The campaign promotes decolonial, feminist approaches to forest conservation that centre the rights, knowledge, and leadership of women in all their diversity. By supporting inclusive, community-led forest governance and dismantling intersecting systems of oppression, we work to protect forests while reducing gender inequalities and strengthening women’s access to decision-making and resources.
Unsustainable Livestock
GFC’s Unsustainable Livestock Campaign works to challenge factory farming, end harmful incentives, and promote agroecology and plant-rich diets that protect forests, defend rights, and support gender justice.
ETI
Forests and communities are under threat from mining, fossil fuel extraction, mass tourism, and mega-infrastructure projects. GFC’s Extractive Industries, Tourism and Infrastructure Campaign fights to defend rights, protect livelihoods, and stop destructive industries in their tracks.
Climate Justice & Forests
GFC opposes corporate influence over climate and forest policy and exposes false solutions that harm ecosystems and communities, especially women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples. We defend forests, support community stewardship, and promote rights-based, gender-just approaches to climate mitigation for a fairer, more resilient world.
Gender Justice & Forests
The campaign promotes decolonial, feminist approaches to forest conservation that centre the rights, knowledge, and leadership of women in all their diversity. By supporting inclusive, community-led forest governance and dismantling intersecting systems of oppression, we work to protect forests while reducing gender inequalities and strengthening women’s access to decision-making and resources.
Unsustainable Livestock
GFC’s Unsustainable Livestock Campaign works to challenge factory farming, end harmful incentives, and promote agroecology and plant-rich diets that protect forests, defend rights, and support gender justice.
ETI
Forests and communities are under threat from mining, fossil fuel extraction, mass tourism, and mega-infrastructure projects. GFC’s Extractive Industries, Tourism and Infrastructure Campaign fights to defend rights, protect livelihoods, and stop destructive industries in their tracks.
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Not Our Solution: Global South Civil Society Rejects Geoengineering
BONN, 11 June -- At the UN climate negotiations...
Carbon Credits Under Fire – Myanmar, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Crisis of Credibility Facing the UN’s “High-Integrity” Carbon Markets
Download the report Read the press release The...
First UN Paris Agreement “High-Integrity” Carbon Credits Linked to Myanmar Junta, New Report Finds
Civil society organisations call for suspension...
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