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Open letter to the Global Environment Facility and UNDP: no more climate finance for tree plantations and bioenergy

3 Dec 2020

As the Global Environment Facility embarks on it’s civil society consultations today ahead of its 59th Council Meeting, we’re publishing an open letter to GEF CEO Carlos Manuel Rodriguez and UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. We’re asking them to acknowledge two investigations that reveal how GEF and UNDP money to address climate change is promoting commercial monoculture tree plantations for bioenergy generation. The projects are resulting in harm to communities, biodiversity and the climate, and undermine their mission to tackle the…

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20 years of GFC: celebrating two decades of campaigning for rights-based and socially-just forest conservation

30 Nov 2020

Today we celebrate GFC’s 20th anniversary! We hope you will join us later today to commemorate the occasion during our…

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Ending Violence Against Women Requires Systemic Change

25 Nov 2020

by Jeanette Sequeira (Global Forest Coalition) and Audrey Ledanois (Women Engage for a Common Future) This year, the International Day…

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Development Banks: #DivestFactoryFarming NOW!

11 Nov 2020

Development Banks are financed with public money. It’s unacceptable that they fund factory farms that can jeopardize life on this…

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World Food Day: Lessons from COVID-19 can lead the way to sustainable food systems

15 Oct 2020

Originally published by 50by40 To commemorate World Food Day, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) reflects on the impacts of extensive…

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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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20 years of GFC: celebrating two decades of rights-based campaigning to halt deforestation

30 Nov 2020
Zoom meeting in English, Spanish, French and Russian @ 8am Bogotá / 10am São Paulo / 1pm Accra / 2pm Amsterdam / 4pm Nairobi / 6.3pm Delhi / 8pm Jakarta

[Español | Français | русский] We are excited to invite you to join us in celebrating GFC’s 20th anniversary on…
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Resisting our destruction: forest, bioenergy and monoculture tree plantations

16 Nov 2020
Live-stream/zoom webinar in English, 16:30 UTC/17:30 CET

This event was live-streamed during the COP26 Coalition’s “From the Ground Up: Global Gathering for Climate Justice“. Event information: Forest…
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Regional conversation: Resisting monoculture tree plantations

6 Nov 2020
Facebook @ 18h Asunción: Conamuri, Heñoi y GFC

Watch a recording of the event here.
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On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, celebrate pastoralism as an alternative to unsustainable livestock production

9 Aug 2020

We celebrate International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples each August 9th, but the human cultures that have conserved biodiversity…
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Open letter to the Global Environment Facility and UNDP: no more climate finance for tree plantations and bioenergy

20 years of GFC: celebrating two decades of campaigning for rights-based and socially-just forest conservation

Ending Violence Against Women Requires Systemic Change

Development Banks: #DivestFactoryFarming NOW!

World Food Day: Lessons from COVID-19 can lead the way to sustainable food systems

Recent events

20 years of GFC: celebrating two decades of rights-based campaigning to halt deforestation

Resisting our destruction: forest, bioenergy and monoculture tree plantations

Regional conversation: Resisting monoculture tree plantations

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Ending Violence Against Women Requires Systemic Change

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