Forests and Climate Change

Press Statement: Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions

6 Jun, 2023

Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions Corporate co-opting of global climate policy is leading us to a climate catastrophe BONN, June 6, 2023 – UN member states must immediately end the financing of false climate solutions and their support via subsidies and other incentives, and shift flows towards genuine, gender-just and rights-based solutions capable of tackling the root causes of the climate crisis, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) said today. Negotiators are gathering in Bonn, Germany from …

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Campaign Briefing: Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions

5 Jun, 2023

Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions: A Roadmap Towards Gender-Just & Real Climate Justice Download the briefer here: A Brief on the Urgent Need to Divest Public Climate Finance…

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Watch now: GFC’s Press Conference Calling for Urgent Divestment from False Solutions

5 Jun, 2023

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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Transformative change with environmental and gender justice demands real solutions on climate, not schemes like “Nature-Based Solutions”

23 May, 2023

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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Webinar: Gender-Just and Community Rights Perspectives on Pathways to 1.5

2 May, 2023

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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Call for the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of largest voluntary carbon offset certifier

23 Mar, 2023

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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‘Forests represent health’: An interview with Fundaexpresión on the International Day of Forests

21 Mar, 2023

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

20 Mar, 2023

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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Press release from Don’t Geoengineer Africa: A Warning Call from African Civil Society Organizations

17 Feb, 2023

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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Pressure mounts to remove polluters, not just oil exec, from UN climate talks

28 Jan, 2023

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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Letter from ‘Kick Big Polluters Out’ on COP28 Presidency

28 Jan, 2023

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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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Historical Deal for Biodiversity

10 Jan, 2023

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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The TNFD: What it is, who’s behind it and why it’s a major greenwashing risk

13 Dec, 2022

This week at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) will meet with regulators and host events to try to sell this corporate…

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Is the BRI in line with an “ecological civilization?” Whose future counts?

7 Dec, 2022

By Allie Constantine (Global Forest Coalition) in ECO, Vol. 65 7 December 2022 China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), hailed as being a new strategy to connect the world with…

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Briefing: Is the BRI Congruous with COP15’s Promise of an “Ecological Civilisation”?

7 Dec, 2022

As the parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) meet in Montreal, we’re looking at the need for real solutions to biodiversity loss and the big processes and factors…

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Lost and Damaged: From Climate COP to Biodiversity COP

3 Dec, 2022

By Souparna Lahiri This year’s UN Climate Conference, hyped as the “Implementation COP” where world leaders were to finally turn words into action, failed to take off in Sharm El…

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CBD COP15: Biodiversity’s ‘Paris’ or ‘Copenhagen’?

28 Nov, 2022

Commentary By Simone Lovera on www.boell.de  // Русский ниже Just weeks after the failed United Nations Climate Summit in Egypt, UN member states will gather again from 7 to 19 December, this time…

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