Forests and Climate Change

Forests Rescue Plan Riddled with Uncertainties

24 Nov, 2010

Cross-posted from IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 23, 2010 (IPS) – Deforestation rates have slowed in Brazil and elsewhere in expectation of a windfall of green gold from billions of dollars of carbon credits being mobilised for climate protection, some experts believe. Next week, at the United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Mexico, the final details of a new international market for buying and selling carbon rights to forests will be under intense negotiation by 200 countries. This …

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GFC in Cancun

23 Nov, 2010

In less than a week, the 16th United Nations Climate Conference will take place in Cancun, Mexico.  Many members of the Global Forest Coalition will take part, in side-events, workshops,…

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Earth Grab: The Rush to Make Agriculture Fuel the Global Economy

23 Nov, 2010

Ottawa, November 22, 2010. Whether we’re talking about global energy, climate change, food security or commodity trade – agriculture has quickly taken centre stage in the new global economy. It’s…

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Civil society concern over the Hague conference on agriculture and climate change

9 Nov, 2010

Civil Society Statement of Concern on the Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (October 31 – November 5):

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Biodiversity in suspense

9 Nov, 2010

By our executive director, Simone Lovera Halfway the second week, everybody is holding its breath here at the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties: Will the 10th Conference of the Parties…

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Cop10hagen and the Redd-Green Economy

9 Nov, 2010

So will Nagoya become the CBD’s Copenhagen? Are we heading for another COP-flop? article by Simone Lovera, in CBD Alliance Newsletter of 25 October 2010 This important question formed the…

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Organizations protest market-based conservation at CBD COP10

9 Nov, 2010

On Tuesday 19 October, the second day of the Biodiversity Conference in Nagoya, Japan, organizations, including the Global Forest Coalition, protested against market-based conservation. A short report from our Executive…

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EU bio-energy targets cause biodiversity loss

19 Oct, 2010

Nagoya, Japan, 18 October 2010 -Environmental and social justice groups warn that incentives for wood-based bio-energy will trigger dramatic biodiversity loss, as forests and grasslands are converted to monocultures.  The…

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Tianjin letter to governments

12 Oct, 2010

The fourteenth session of the AWG-KP and the twelfth session of the AWG-LCA are taking place this week in Tianjin, China. During the last Climate Talks in Bonn in August…

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21 September – International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations

4 Oct, 2010

September 21 is International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations. On this day, environmental and social groups around the world call attention to the harmful effects of tree monocultures on biodiversity…

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Shell bankrolls REDD

4 Oct, 2010

Indigenous Environmental Network and Friends of the Earth Nigeria Denounce Shell REDD Project September 7, 2010 – Oil giant Shell, infamous for the genocide of the Ogoni People and environmental…

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Negative impacts of tree plantations ignored by Northern consumer countries

21 Sep, 2010

Urgent need to raise awareness that plantations are not forests Paraguay, 21 September 2010 – A worldwide coalition of environmental and indigenous groups warns that international policies governing responses to…

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Thousand solutions to climate change!

13 Sep, 2010

The people create thousands of solutions to confront climate change! Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice! La Via Campesina calls on social movements and all people to mobilize around the…

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Nature Communications article shows ‘true colours’ of biochar advocates

13 Sep, 2010

Groups condemn implied land-grab for biochar

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EU Green Paper on forests and climate change: missed opportunity

13 Sep, 2010

In March 2010, the European Commission launched an EU-wide consultation to find out whether the EU should increase its efforts to protect forests under a changing climate.

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LULUCF briefing: No offsets, no false accounting

13 Sep, 2010

Briefing paper on Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF), prepared by GFC’s European focal point Almuth Ernsting from Biofuelwatch and Helena Paul from Econexus.

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Close loopholes, do not expand CDM

13 Sep, 2010

Statement to the pre-sessional workshop on “Forest Management Accounting” Bonn, 30 July 2010

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