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:
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.
Who Really Benefits? How REDD+ Fails Forests and Those Who Protect Them
Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions: A Roadmap
Trees for Global Benefit Uganda: A Case Study on the Failures of Carbon Offsetting
Forest Cover 68: The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender Transformative Solutions to Climate Change
Forest Cover 65: Gender justice and climate action: A feminist analysis of forest and climate policy making
Arauco’s Valdivia biomass power station: carbon emissions and conflicts with Indigenous communities in Chile
These are not forests: The Arbaro Fund and monoculture tree plantations in Paraguay
AFR100: Driving commercial tree plantation expansion in Africa?
International Civil Aviation Day: Say no to carbon offsets for aviation!
The impacts of tree plantations on women, and women-led resistance to monocultures
15 years of REDD+: Has it been worth the money?
An investigation into the Global Environment Facility-funded Green Charcoal Project in Uganda
An investigation into the Global Environment Facility-funded project “Production of sustainable, renewable biomass-based charcoal for the iron and steel industry in Brazil”
Can sustainability and greenhouse gas standards protect the climate, forests and communities from the impacts of wood-based bioenergy?
Working paper: The risks of large-scale biosequestration in the context of Carbon Dioxide Removal
9 Jul 2025
The EBRD has withdrawn its planned €40 million equity investment in Rex Concepts SA (Burger King & Popeyes operator in Central & Eastern Europe). This win, driven by the Green REV Institute, Global Forest Coalition, S3F coalition, and 75+ groups, highlights the urgent need for development finance to prioritise environmental and health justice over industrial fast food.
8 Jul 2025
GFC among ten rights‑holders and civil society groups today challenged UNEP’s dismissal of our formal complaint over its role in the TNFD—widely labeled “the next frontier in corporate greenwashing.” We’re…
18 Jun 2025
As the global climate negotiations continue to steer the world headlong towards climate catastrophe, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) and our allies are pushing back against false solutions such as…
24 Apr 2025
Indigenous peoples, forest communities, and nature should be at the center of forest protection, not investors, groups say April 24, 2025–Tropical forest countries, movements, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and civil…
10 Apr 2025
A new report on the proposed ‘Tropical Forest Forever Facility’ by the Global Forest Coalition and Fundación Solón English / Português / Español / Bahasa / Français This report offers an in-depth…
30 Mar 2025
The IMO Should Listen to Outcry Over False “Green” Bioenergy Solution Bioenergy, including crop-based biofuel, is often portrayed as “low-carbon,” but it isn’t, and the global shipping authority must recognize…
21 Mar 2025
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…
5 Mar 2025
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…
28 Feb 2025
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
22 Feb 2025
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…
17 Feb 2025
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…
