Forests and Climate Change

As negotiators gather in Bonn, Germany for the Climate Change Conference (SB58) from June 5-15, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) and member organizations organised a press conference on how the…

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Photo credit: Fernando Franceschelli We regularly contribute to United Nations processes on issues like forests, biodiversity, climate change and gender in order to bring the priorities and perspectives of our…

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Click here to register for the event. The latest IPCC reports paint a difficult path to 1.5C and we are already seeing the devastating effects of climate change at 1.2C…

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80 NGOs ask the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of the largest voluntary carbon offset certifier Joint letter, 22 March 2023 In November 2022, the European Commission presented…

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Photo: Biodiversity monitoring workshop with children in the Selva Alto Andina in Suratá, Santander, Colombia On the International Day of Forests, the Global Forest Coalition salutes the work of our…

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UN Member States: Reject False Climate Solutions, Direct Policy and Funding to Immediate Carbon Emissions Reductions and Real Solutions IPCC report clearly shows there is no room for carbon offsets…

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Source: handsoffmotherearth.org 15 February, 2023–Civil Society Organizations that advocate for climate and environmental justice are calling on the African Union to not Geoengineer Africa ahead of the African Union Heads…

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UNFCCC constituencies and 425 groups call on UN and UNFCCC leads to halt corporate capture of COP28 and beyond Source: kickbigpollutersout.org 26 January, 2023–There has been widespread condemnation since news broke earlier…

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To:  António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General  Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Parties to the UNFCCC— On January 11, news broke that Sultan…

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By Simone Lovera, published 29 December 2022 by Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung In German – Auf Deutsch lesen / In Russian – Читать на русском It was an awkward incident: right at the…

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