In this 50th edition of Forest Cover we review the ongoing tension between industrial-scale monoculture plantations and community forest management, considering the impacts of the former on communities in India and Chile, and on women in general, and the biodiversity that they all rely upon.
Jeanette Sequeira* Last week Global Forest Coalition (GFC), together with partners, organised an inspiring side event at the SBSTTA-20 meeting in Montreal entitled ‘Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Recommendations for…
“Mainstreaming Biodiversity and the Resilience of Community Conservation” calls out to national governments to include indigenous peoples and local community conserved territories and areas (ICCAs) and other community conservation initiatives…
22 April, 2016: On the occasion of Earth Day, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] released a new briefing paper titled “Mainstreaming Biodiversity and the Resilience of Community Conservation”[2] ahead…
Souparna Lahiri* With barely ten days to go for the polls to the State Legislature, the forest villagers in the Himalayan foothills, Terai and Duars of the eastern Indian State…
By Coraina de la Plaza, Global Forest Coalition Last March, from the 8th to the 10th, the 12th meeting of Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board took place in its headquarters,…
4th April, Brussels – As member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the United Nations’ specialised aviation agency, gather in Utrecht to discuss ways to ‘offset’ emissions from…
On the 12th and 13th of March, 2016, the Mpumalanga Environmental Youth Network (MEYN) met for a one day workshop on the Saturday, followed by an excursion on the Sunday.…
18 March: The European Commission’s International Cooperation arm (DEVCO)[1] has launched a 5-year partnership agreement with a coalition of 5 global and regional women’s networks to implement the Sustainable Development…
by Simon Fischer* In the end of last year, the world looked with promising eyes to Paris after the adoption of a presumably historic climate agreement had been announced. The…
Several environmental groups from around the world have today sent an open letter to the Swedish Energy Agency calling for the cancellation of the Agency’s purchase contract with the Norwegian…
To the President of Honduras To the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras We reject the Honduran Attorney General’s decision to prolong the migration alert that impedes human rights defender…
March 4, 2016 – Planet Earth Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and spokeperson for more than 20 years of the Civic Council of Popular and Inigenous Organizations of Honduras (Consejo Cívico…
Welcome to the forty-nineth edition of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) In this edition we look at meat as a driver of deforestation, including the way…
by Isis Alvarez* From February 15-19, the 2nd Meeting of the Open Ended Committee of Representatives met in Nairobi, Kenya, at the UNEP Headquarters. This meeting serves as the preparatory…
Campaigners say: False solutions to climate change do not cut emissions but damage land and livelihoods in other countries 10th February 2016 – 115 civil society organisations and networks from…
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…
