Discover the Global Forest Coalition’s participation at mobilisations around COP30 in Belém, Brazil — including, key publications, and a full schedule of events and press conferences promoting real, rights-based, and gender-just climate solutions.
As COP30 approaches in Belém, the world faces a critical test: will global leaders finally deliver on promises to protect tropical forests and those who defend them? It is time…
In this issue of Forest Cover, our member groups share powerful research and testimonies from Brazil, Bolivia, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Nepal, and Paraguay. Together, we expose the violence of monoculture…
Over the past decade, the concept of ‘Nature-based Solutions’ (NbS) has been promoted within global environmental governance, with several big conservation NGOs and corporations (such as BP, Chevron, Shell, Bayer,…
In a context where urgent action is required to address the structural causes of biodiversity loss, GFC observes a deliberate promotion in biodiversity negotiations of false solutions to the crisis…
This new photo essay, Harvesting Hope in the Hills of Nepal: The Journey of Chepang Women toward Food and Gender Justice, captures their inspiring efforts to regenerate forests, strengthen agroecological…
At the end of August 2025, the vibrant port city of Valparaíso, Chile, became a convergence point for climate justice movements and NGOs at the 4th Climate Justice Latam and…
Women from around Latin America gathered to debate food sovereignty ahead of Nyéléni By Inés Franceschelli, Heñói Centro de Estudios / Global Forest Coalition July 22, 2025 More than 30…
The Meeting on Nature Markets, organized by GRAIN and CLOC-Vía Campesina, with social movements and organizations from around 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, was held in Guararema,…
Inspired by the spirit of Ubuntu, the women of Kapyanga in Zambia are blending traditional wisdom with modern agroecology to heal their land and communities.
The path to avoid the point of no return of tropical forests in the Amazon, Congo and Indonesia The Amazon, Congo, and Indonesian tropical forests—three of the world’s largest and…
Cali, Colombia, 29 October 2024 “As long as governments are in cahoots with corporations to destroy nature, there cannot be ‘Peace with Nature.’” Souparna Lahiri of the Global Forest Coalition…
To halt global biodiversity loss in an equitable and gender-responsive manner, countries must stop subsidizing export-oriented economic sectors. By Souparna Lahiri and Valentina Figuera Martínez Common Dreams, 24 October 2024…
Published in Truthout Will COP16 on Biodiversity Listen to Indigenous Women or Corporate Lobbyists? Indigenous women have long been at the forefront of the global movement for land and territorial…
A Joint Call to Action for Rejecting Market-Based Approaches and Advancing a Gender Just and Rights-Based Approach to Biodiversity Protection at CBD COP 16
In June 2024, the Green Livelihood Alliance’s (GLA) Gender Hub hosted another Inclusive Forest Community of Practice (InFoCP) session, focusing on preparations for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP16…
Here’s one of the most powerful pieces of good news you probably missed this year: a group of Indigenous women in Peru succeeded in asserting the legal right to integrity…
