March 20, 2017: The UNFAO’s “Forests and Energy” theme for this year’s International Day of Forests on March 21 misleadingly promotes bioenergy from burning wood from forests as well as from monoculture tree plantations as “sustainable” energy sources. This promotion by FAO comes despite evidence that bioenergy is increasingly contributing to the destruction of forests, and is no better for the climate than fossil fuels, say a large number of international environmental activist groups in a statement and letter to FAO released today.
People’s Summit: Tribunal in Defense of the Bodies and Territories of Women and Gender-Diverse People
By the Brazilian Women’s Alliance (AMB), the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), the International Initiative of Women, Bodies, and Territories, and CP Peru Photos by Pilar Anco of CMP Flora Tristán and Fran Ribeiro/SOS CorpoOn Friday, November 14, the Global Forest...
