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Forests and Climate Change

Don’t Trade away our Land and Forests for Carbon Offsets!

15 Jan, 2016

A brief report on the Global Forest Coalition activities in the road up to and during the COP21 in Paris, France By Mary Louise Malig On the Road to Paris GFC has had a long history of actively participating in actions whether inside or outside the meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), seeing how several areas of the negotiations impact forests, biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples, women and forest communities. GFC began following the preparations for the …

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COP 21: Victorious Corporations

14 Dec, 2015

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By Miguel Lovera* Negotiations to solve climate change started 23 years ago. Ever since then, a trend towards commercializing the problems and the solutions started to be identifiable. More and…

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COP21: We have a Deal…

11 Dec, 2015

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By Souparna Lahiri   The negotiations are almost over. Governments, civil society, media, NGOs, INGOs, BINGOs have all come out with their demands, expectations and postures. A few caucus of…

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Durban Declaration on REDD

7 Oct, 2015

Durban, South Africa – September 9, 2015 We, local communities, peasants movements, Indigenous Peoples and civil society organizations from Africa and all over the world, call upon the United Nations, the…

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