Supporting Community Conservation

CBD-COP 11: Civil Society Opening Statement

9 Oct, 2012

Español debajo Opening statement as the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity starts in Hyderabad, India. Madame Chair, distinguished delegates and observers: The CBD Alliance warmly welcomes the new CBD Executive Secretary and his stated priority: Implementation. We pledge to help as strongly as we can to achieve this priority. In view of this, we recall the triple objectives of the Convention that should be upheld as the foundation for all aspects of the Convention: from …

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Biodiversity and Livelihoods under Attack from Industrial Bio-economy Strategy

25 Sep, 2012

  The EU is rapidly developing a new type of ‘post-fossil fuel’ economy, dubbed the ‘bio-economy’ (as described in the report “Bio-economies: the EU’s real ‘Green Economy’ agenda? 1), and…

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Tiger Reserves: The Realities Behind a Controversy

4 Sep, 2012

Statement from the Campaign for Dignity and Survival ——- These reserves are not managed in any rational, accountable or even legal way. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gave the Environment…

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Going beyond Price and Seeking the Multiple Values of Biodiversity

9 May, 2012

Many still believe that huge financial “investments” are needed for the “conservation” of biological resources, as shown with the subsidies that international institutions like the World Bank provide for this…

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Media Release: The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns

26 Apr, 2012

Obama’s Plan Bodes Ill for Human Rights and the Environment, New Report Finds As U.S. President Obama announced his new “National Bioeconomy Blueprint” today, the Global Forest Coalition [1] unveiled…

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UN Intersessional Report: How will the Green Economy affect women?

9 Apr, 2012

(cross-posted) Keith Brunner from Gears of Change Youth Media Project reports back from the side event “Women’s critical perspectives on the ‘green economy” carried out during the  UN Rio+20 intercessional (March25-27) at…

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Civil Society Views in Scaling up Biodiversity Finance, Resource Mobilization, and Innovative Financial Mechanisms

3 Apr, 2012

GFC’s submission to the UNFCCC call for Parties and accredited organizations on modalities and procedures for financing results based-actions and activities related to decision 1/CP.16, paragraphs 68-70 and 72. This…

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Indigenous and Community-led Forest Initiatives Offer Solutions to Today’s Problems Local Communities Need Rights and Respect, Not REDD

2 Dec, 2011

Durban, South Africa – Studies show that the best guardians of forest lands are the people who live there. Indigenous Peoples and other Forest-dependent peoples agree. Yet, all over the…

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Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics

22 Jun, 2011

Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics

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Biodiversity in suspense

9 Nov, 2010

By our executive director, Simone Lovera Halfway the second week, everybody is holding its breath here at the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties: Will the 10th Conference of the Parties…

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Organizations protest market-based conservation at CBD COP10

9 Nov, 2010

On Tuesday 19 October, the second day of the Biodiversity Conference in Nagoya, Japan, organizations, including the Global Forest Coalition, protested against market-based conservation. A short report from our Executive…

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