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Vacancy: Unsustainable livestock production campaign assistant

3 Aug, 2020

Call for a Campaign Assistant: Job description and requirements We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced campaign assistant to join our team. The aim of the Unsustainable Livestock Campaign is to halt and reverse the expansion of unsustainable livestock production, and support alternative agro-ecological models of food production, highlighting the gender-differentiated impacts and the rights and the roles of women. The livestock campaign assistant will assist in the planning and successful and timely implementation of activities to advance the …

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Letter of concern to the European Investment Bank (EIB) to stop finance for industrial livestock production

22 Jul, 2020

Over 20 organisations including the Global Forest Coalition have sent an open letter (copied below) to the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) calling on them to align their…

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Women2030 global shadow report: Gender equality on the ground

15 Jul, 2020

Feminist findings and recommendations for achieving Agenda 2030 This global shadow report aims to capture the inspiring and diverse range of work that has taken place through the Women2030 programme…

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New gender equality report on Latin America cites gap between UN goals and local realities

8 Jul, 2020

July 8, 2020 — A report released today sheds light on gender equality in Latin America through community-based assessments in five countries, suggesting that a significant gap remains between progress…

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Latin America report: gender assessments reveal gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions

7 Jul, 2020

World leaders have gathered virtually for this year’s edition of the UN’s High-Level Political Forum. Top on the agenda is assessing how progress is being made globally to achieve gender…

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Respect for women’s rights at stake: The gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions

7 Jul, 2020

by Juana Vera Delgado, Global Forest Coalition (Русский ниже) Assessing progress on gender equality and the impacts of COVID-19 are top on the agenda at the UN’s High-Level Political Forum…

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Open letter: International development banks must stop funding industrial livestock farming

2 Jul, 2020

Over 30 organisations including the Global Forest Coalition have signed an open letter (also copied below) to the Chief Executive Officer of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the President…

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GFC Annual Report 2019: Forest protection through rights-based action and advocacy

1 Jul, 2020

As described throughout the report, GFC’s key moments in 2019 came in March in Lomé, Togo, during a West African skill-share on gender-responsive forest conservation, and in December in Santiago…

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Environmental groups denounce deeply flawed EU consultation on the Climate Target Roadmap 2030

23 Jun, 2020

Amsterdam, 23rd June 2020 – In a strong critique of the EU’s stakeholder consultation about potential major revisions to its climate policy, Global Forest Coalition, representing more than 100 NGOs…

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Forest loss for large-scale agriculture and extractive industries goes hand in hand with violence against women

5 Jun, 2020

by John C. Cannon, originally published on Mongabay Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss Women in the province of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea…

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Time to turn the tide on industrial animal farming: path towards post-pandemic sustainable food systems

28 May, 2020

by Global Forest Coalition and GRAIN  One important lesson that we can draw from the COVID-19 pandemic that impacted almost every country in the world is that agro-industrial livestock production…

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Climate finance for bioenergy and tree plantations is fueling conflicts with communities in Brazil

24 May, 2020

Ahead of our webinar on “Climate finance for tree plantations and bioenergy, and why these false solutions must not be subsidised with public money”, we’ve published a case study on…

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Our Nature is Not Your Solution – and FAO’s Plantations are even less of a Solution!

22 May, 2020

By Ruth Nyambura, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Kenya On the 22nd of May each year the world celebrates the International Day of Biological Diversity and this year’s celebrations are significant…

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Forest Cover 61: #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution, International Day for Biological Diversity

22 May, 2020

As part of the #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution campaign we're launching this special edition of our magazine Forest Cover, written in collaboration with our member groups. Forest Cover highlights how hype around NBS…

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Action alert: join us to oppose nature-based solutions greenwash on International Day for Biological Diversity

16 May, 2020

May 22nd is International Day for Biological Diversity, and the theme chosen by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this year is “Our solutions are in nature”. This…

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Women’s Major Group on COVID-19 and the environment: support real solutions that respect human rights

15 May, 2020

The Women’s Major Group has published this powerful statement in response to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) President’s letter to UNEA’s Ministerial Declaration. The statement links the current coronovirus crisis…

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Indigenous Sami under threat from logging in Sweden

22 Apr, 2020

by Kristina Bäck, Protect the Forest, Sweden Sweden’s state-owned forestry company Sveaskog have announced that they will sell another 10,400 hectares of forest, more than 2,000 hectares of which are…

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