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Anna Kirilenko appointed as new chairperson of the Global Forest Coalition

25 Mar 2020

The Global Forest Coalition is happy to welcome Anna Kirilenko as its new chairperson. Anna has served as GFC’s board member for North and Central Asia and Eastern Europe for several years. She is the executive director of GFC’s member group “Ecological Movement BIOM” and is widely recognised as a leading expert in environmental policy and law and a central figure in the environmental and feminist movement in her home country, Kyrgyzstan. She succeeds Diego Cardona, who served as GFC’s…

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32 organisations worldwide call on BlackRock to drop Drax

23 Mar 2020

A message for shareholders outside Drax’s AGM 2019.

Originally published by Biofuelwatch A coalition of 32 environmental organisations worldwide has sent a letter to the world’s largest asset…

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New briefing: Can sustainability and greenhouse gas standards protect the climate, forests and communities from the impacts of wood-based bioenergy?

12 Mar 2020

This briefing is published jointly by the Global Forest Coalition and our UK and US-based member group, Biofuelwatch. In it…

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If women stop, the world stops: we’re supporting the Women’s Global Strike on International Women’s Day

8 Mar 2020

Today is International Women’s Day and GFC is proud to be supporting the Women’s Global Strike. Many of our staff…

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Why the Green Climate Fund must reject Arbaro’s plantations

5 Mar 2020

co-authored by the Global Forest Coalition and our member groups HEÑÓI (Paraguay), Iniciativa Amotocodie (Paraguay), Sobrevivencia/Friends of the Earth (Paraguay),…

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The Community Conservation Resilience Initiative ("CCRI") documented and reviewed the findings of bottom-up, participatory assessments in 22 countries of the resilience of community conservation initiatives and the support that should be provided to strengthen these initiatives. The aim of the project was to contribute to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2011-2020 Strategic Plan and Aichi Targets, by providing policy advice on effective and appropriate forms of support for community conservation. The global report of is now available, including the summaries for each of the countries covered, in our CCRI reports' interactive map

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Recent events

Extractive Industries, Tourism and Infrastructure campaign regional meeting in Asia

17 Feb 2020 to 18 Feb 2020
Bogor, Indonesia

GFC is hosting a regional meeting of our Extractive Industries, Tourism and Infrastructure (ETI) campaign with our Asia-based member groups,…
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An open dialogue on climate change, traditional knowledge and alternatives to unsustainable livestock production in Asia

15 Feb 2020
Bogor, Indonesia

Building on our previous two open dialogues that took place in Ethiopia (Sept 2019) and Chile (Dec 2019), we are…
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A dialogue on livestock production and other causes of deforestation

4 Dec 2019
Cumbre de los Pueblos, Sala Camilo Catrillanca, 10:00-14:00

The Global Forest Coalition is holding the second of a series of regional dialogues on Alternatives to Unsustainable Livestock Production,…
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