The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) warmly invites you to a special webinar on 29 January 2026 to launch the latest issue of Forest Cover: From False Solutions to Transformative Change: Creating the Conditions for Real Solutions to Flourish.
→ Click here to register now! Don’t miss this vital conversation! ←
Forest Cover 70 brings together powerful case studies and firsthand testimonies from GFC member groups and allies in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, Morocco, Panama, and Zambia. This edition exposes how extractivism and corporate-driven “green” solutions act as systemic barriers to gender-just, community-led real solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises, by reinforcing structural inequalities and threatening the rights, lands, and lives of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women, and youth. In parallel, the case studies also highlight how communities are resisting and overcoming these barriers, and how their collective action can inform and strengthen global policy debates.
📅 Date: Thursday, 29 January 2026
🕐 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
🔗 Registration: http://bit.ly/forestcover70
🌍 Interpretation: English, Spanish, French
This interactive webinar is your opportunity to hear directly from authors and activists about:
- How market-based climate “solutions” and extractive industries perpetuate dispossession, pollution, criminalisation, and gendered violence;
- The transformative, community-led alternatives, rooted in Indigenous knowledge, women’s leadership, agroecology, and collective governance, that are already advancing justice and true systemic change;
- Why scaling the conditions for local solutions through securing land rights, gender justice, direct funding, and territories free of extractivism is critical for real climate and biodiversity action.
✨ Case studies include:
- Zambia Social Forum (ZAMSOF), Zambia – On how the global rush for “green” minerals like copper creates new sacrifice zones and reinforces colonial patterns of extraction and gender inequality.
- Centro de Desarrollo Ambiental y Humano (CENDAH), Panama – On the Gunadule people’s collective resistance to carbon markets and REDD+, and their protocol for climate action rooted in autonomy and ancestral knowledge.
- Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), Bangladesh – On the struggle to restore the Madhupur Sal Forest, and the ongoing fight for Indigenous women’s land rights and justice.
- Fundación Solón, Bolivia – On communities declaring territories free of mining, defending rivers and agroecological livelihoods, and how women’s leadership is central to territorial defense.
- Colectivo Vientosur & Red Superación al Modelo Forestal, Chile – On Mapuche women’s resistance to colonial land grabs, monoculture plantations, and their leadership in land recovery, agroecology, and cultural survival.
- Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) & Fédération Nationale des Femmes de la Filière d’Argane (FNFARGNANE), Morocco – On Amazigh women’s traditional stewardship of argan forests and their collective fight to defend land, culture, and livelihoods from climate and market threats.
Moderated by Oli Munnion and Janaina Uemura, GFC’s Climate Justice and Forests Co-coordinators, this conversation will highlight how overcoming systemic and structural barriers, and amplifying grassroots leadership, can create the enabling conditions for real solutions to flourish.
Join us as we explore the urgent lessons and inspiring stories in Forest Cover 70 and be part of a global dialogue to move beyond false solutions, dismantle extractivism, and advance gender and environmental justice.
