Our Forests, Trees and Climate Change campaign opposes the corporate take-over of forest, biodiversity and climate policy-making at different governance levels, and focuses on the drivers of forest loss and land conversion to monoculture tree plantations that have arisen in the post-Paris Agreement climate mitigation context. This includes:
Climate mitigation approaches centred around afforestation and reforestation with tree plantations, forest carbon offsets and other market-based schemes;
Public subsidies and climate finance that are increasingly being directed towards commercial tree plantations and bioenergy generation with strong private sector involvement.
These three key areas of work tie together the vital struggles that our member groups are engaged in locally with national and international-level advocacy that we engage in with our allies as a coalition, particularly concerning the UNFCCC, international climate finance mechanisms, global campaigns against the expansion of industrial bioenergy and genetically engineered trees. We also campaign for gender justice as a key pillar of climate justice, and promote gender-responsive and community-led alternative solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.
Tugai Forests: Central Asia’s Hidden Oasis and the Fight for Their Survival In the heart of Central Asia, where arid deserts and rugged mountains dominate the landscape, a green thread winds along the riverbanks — the tugai forests. These rare riparian woodlands thrive in the floodplains of rivers like the Syr Darya, Amu Darya, and Ili, creating a biological oasis amid an otherwise harsh climate. The tugai forests are vital ecosystems teeming with life, and they are among the most …
A joint statement in favor of truly sustianabile EU energy policy The Global Forest Coalition is among the signatories of this joint statement, Beyond Bioenergy, which calls on the EU…
Photo: Adzwari Rizki/Trend Asia Press Release Road to COP 30: Global South Civil Societies Gather Voices Demanding Tropical Rainforest Protection From Energy Transition Policies Based on Land Use
Movements are gearing up for the People’s Summit in Brazil during COP30 By Valentina Figuera Martínez, Kwami Kpondzo and Megan Morrissey For over half a century now, we’ve heard warnings…
In an urgent press release, Biofuelwatch and the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) called on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its 176 Member States to oppose the promotion of biofuels…
Sign on Letter to President Boric of Chile demanding the repeal of the Usurpation Law which violates international Indigenous Rights law and sets a dangerous international precedent for violating Indigenous…
Check out the recent analysis report by Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World), which explores the critical intersection of land rights and climate change, highlighting the challenges faced…
The path to avoid the point of no return of tropical forests in the Amazon, Congo and Indonesia The Amazon, Congo, and Indonesian tropical forests—three of the world’s largest and…
GFC’s senior policy advisory on climate and biodiversity, Souparna Lahiri, offers a damning reflection on the failures of process and dangerous decisions taken at the UN Climate Change Conference COP29…
Global Forest Coalition (GFC) Policy Director Mary Louise Malig spoke to Sveriges Natur on the sidelines of the UN Biodiversity Conference COP 16 in Cali, Colombia. She warned of a…
Rejecting the “carbon violence” done to communities through forest offsets and financing that leads to “climate debt,” communities plan to champion real solutions on climate at COP30. Baku, 21 November…
