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Presenting Global Forest Coalition’s 2022 Annual Report

24 May, 2023

It’s here! The annual report of the Global Forest Coalition for 2022 is out now. Read about our campaigning, events, and outreach during the last year and all of the work that our four campaigns did to elevate the concerns of our member groups around the world. Download the 2022 GFC Annual Report   Message from the chair Dear members, allies, friends, and supporters of the Global Forest Coalition, we present to you the report on the work of 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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Video: Call on the World Bank to #StopFinancingFactoryFarming

12 May, 2023

May 2023   Created by Stop Financing Factory Farming, a diverse global coalition working to shift public development finance away from industrial animal agriculture, to sustainable and equitable food production…

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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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Groups Demand World Bank Shift Lending away from Industrial Animal Agriculture

12 Apr, 2023

April 12, 2023 WASHINGTON DC – Friends of the Earth and the global Stop Financing Factory Farming Campaign (S3F) announce a week of action targeting the World Bank Group (WBG) and…

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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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International Women’s Day: An Occasion to Recall that the Fight Continues

8 Mar, 2023

Let’s wake up! Let’s wake up, humankind! We’re out of time. We must shake our conscience free from the rapacious capitalism, racism and patriarchy that will only assure our own…

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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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Guaraní women’s environmental and gender justice struggle highlighted in Ms. Magazine

17 Jan, 2023

Published in Ms. Magazine on 1/11/2023 by Juana Vera Delgado This article was written by Senior Gender Expert Juana Vera Delgado of the Global Forest Coalition and appeared in Ms.…

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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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Press Release: Global Biodiversity Deal Calls for Divestment from Harmful Industries, Recognizes the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Women

19 Dec, 2022

(MONTREAL, DECEMBER 19, 2022)—The Global Forest Coalition, Rainforest Action Network and Sinergia Animal joined the world’s Indigenous Peoples in welcoming the outcomes of the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP15)…

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The Elephant in the COP15 Negotiations Rooms: Global Tourism and Its Impacts on Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples

17 Dec, 2022

By Souparna Lahiri in ECO While the World Travel and Tourism Council lobbies at the COP 15 Global Biodiversity Summit with its “Nature Positive Travel and Tourism” report in collaboration…

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Community participation from Central Asia in the Global Biodiversity Framework

15 Dec, 2022

Published in ECO on December 14, 2022 By Elena Kreuzberg, Global Forest Coalition (regional focal point for East and Central Asia) At COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)…

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