Resources and publications

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 from False Solutions     This briefing paper outlines the need for an international campaign to halt the financing of false solutions to climate change by bilateral, multilateral and international development funds, including United Nations agencies. Climate finance must support real solutions to the climate crisis that recognise historical responsibility, …

Read in full ›

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…

Read in full ›

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…

Read in full ›

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.…

Read in full ›

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…

Read in full ›

Trees for Global Benefit Uganda: A Case Study on the Failures of Carbon Offsetting

14 Nov, 2022

Carbon offsetting has been a favorite climate change “solution” of countries and corporations that want to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions. But how does it work in practice? Here, we…

Read in full ›

The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender Transformative Solutions to Climate Change

3 Nov, 2022

False solutions to climate change are being increasingly called out and rejected by communities around the world. Real solutions that are rights-based and gender-transformative do exist, and they are the…

Read in full ›

A gendered perspective on the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

17 Oct, 2022

The Global Forest Coalition is pleased to bring you a new report, to continue the important messaging around the International Day of Rural Women: A Gendered Perspective on the Proposed…

Read in full ›

New Report: The State of Industrial Livestock in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and Livelihoods

29 Sep, 2022

Report: The State of Industrial Livestock Farming in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and People’s Livelihoods Agriculture is by far the biggest driver of deforestation, according to the UN…

Read in full ›

Whose Land, Whose Forests? The Gendered Impacts and Colonial Roots of Extractive Industries

30 Aug, 2022

This issue of Forest Cover, Whose Land, Whose Forests? describes the harm that extractivist projects like mining and monoculture tree plantations are doing in communities across Africa and Asia and…

Read in full ›

GFC Annual Report 2021

15 Jul, 2022

We are pleased to share with you a summary of the Global Forest Coalition’s work in 2021. This report describes the key moments and achievements of GFC’s campaigns on climate…

Read in full ›

Stolen land and fading forests in Chile: New report on conflict plantations

11 Jul, 2022

A new report from the Environmental Paper Network, GFC and Colectivo VientoSur reveals another case of “Conflict Plantations,” this time in Chile. Read in English / leer en español Chile’s…

Read in full ›

The Big Con of “All Sources” of Finance

6 Jul, 2022

By Simone Lovera The parties to the Convention on Biodiversity gathered in Nairobi, Kenya from 21 to 26 June for another meeting to negotiate a second Strategic Plan for the…

Read in full ›

Who Makes Decisions at the CBD? The Increasing Power of Business in Biodiversity Protection

24 Jun, 2022

By Philip Seufert, FIAN International (This article is based on discussions during a virtual CSO webinar hosted by FIAN International in May 2022) The next few months will show if…

Read in full ›

Aviation Biofuels: Mega-Refinery Threatens Local Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Paraguay, New Case Study shows

29 Mar, 2022

Omega Green agrofuel (biofuel) refinery in Paraguay is one of largest agrofuel refineries in the world and the first one in South America Low demand for aviation agrofuels in Paraguay…

Read in full ›

Ngodwana Biomass Energy Project: Can wood sourced from industrial timber plantations ever be sustainable?

21 Mar, 2022

Increasingly around the world pulp and paper mills are installing over-sized, dedicated biomass boilers alongside more traditional cogeneration units to take advantage of strong support and incentives for producing electricity…

Read in full ›

“Net Gain” is a lose-lose for rights, gender justice and social equity in biodiversity policy

1 Mar, 2022

The concepts of “Net Gain” and “No Net Loss” have become popular in biodiversity conservation circles and are embraced in the first draft of a new global biodiversity framework released…

Read in full ›