GFC in the news

GFC points out problems with forest offsets in Guyana

11 Apr, 2024

Guayana is a heavily forested country in South America, and according to reports, it’s becoming “the world’s newest petro-state.” Oil companies appear to be touting false solutions to climate impacts there, claiming that their exploitative activities in Guyana are “net zero,” but experts are raising alarm about this. Souparna Lahiri from the Global Forest Coalition was quoted in Climate Home News: The problem is that within the country, you are allowing the emissions to continue or even to rise, and …

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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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GFC interviewed about the new Global Biodiversity Framework

21 Dec, 2022

GFC’s Simone Lovera spoke with Inter-Press Service about the new Global Biodiversity Framework that came out of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal (COP15) on Monday, December 19. In conversation…

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Op-ed in Ms. Magazine: Beware of Climate Colonialism at COP27

8 Nov, 2022

Published by Ms. Magazine on 11/4/2022 by Souparna Lahiri, Maureen Santos and Kwami Kpondzo As U.N. climate negotiators meet for their 27th annual conference in Egypt, sponsored by Coca-Cola, they are poised to…

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Commentary in Mongabay: EU’s anti-deforestation trade rule should be more women-friendly

26 Oct, 2022

Published in Mongabay by Simone Lovera on 26 October 2022 Photo by Abhaya Raj Josh/Mongabay: A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal…

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GFC in the News: World Environment Day and the Importance of Community Conservation

7 Jun, 2022

June 5 was World Environment Day. On that occasion, MongaBay interviewed GFC’s Executive Director Simone Lovera in an article about the “triple threat” of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.…

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Global Forest Coalition featured on Women Rising Radio

3 May, 2022

Recently, the work of Global Forest Coalition was featured on an episode of Women Rising Radio called “Deforestation Emergency.” Interviews were done with Bernarda Pessoa of CONAMURI in Paraguay and…

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We Can’t Achieve Climate Justice Without Gender Justice: A Response to the Glasgow Talks

17 Nov, 2021

Op-ed by Jeanette Sequeira and Coraina de la Plaza, Ms. Magazine, 21 November 2021–With the international climate talks beginning in Glasgow, many are weary of the deceptive and failing policy…

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Nederlandse pensioenfondsen financieren ontbossing en daar kunnen en moeten ze iets aan doen

13 Apr, 2021

Originally published in de Volkskrant Nederlandse banken en pensioenfondsen faciliteren en investeren in de wereldwijde ontbossing, schrijven Simone Lovera, Kirsten Meijer en Hannah Mowat. De pensioensector is lui en zelfingenomen,…

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Biodiversity Negotiations Should Account for COVID-19 and Ensure Equity

19 Aug, 2020

Originally published by IISD 2020 was meant to be an important year – a “super year”– for addressing the global biodiversity crisis, culminating in the adoption of  an ambitious framework…

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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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Sweden’s forest crimes: “Today’s forestry threatens forests and the climate”

27 Feb, 2020

Published in Aktuell Hallbarhet For more on the campaign see 70 organizations and 30 scientists call on politicians and authorities: Stop the logging of high conservation value forests in Sweden

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Deforestation, a problem caused by government collusion

1 Apr, 2019

By Lourdes Uquillas, EFEverde Deforestation is one of the biggest problems today due to the destruction of biodiversity, in many cases by multinationals based in Europe, Canada, or China, that…

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Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+: Creating an International Forest Regime

7 Feb, 2019

Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+: Creating an International Forest Regime Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek, Global Forest Coalition, Asunción, Paraguay It was hoped that by paying forest dependent peoples and countries for…

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Agribusiness Invasion Threatens Indigenous of Paraguay’s Chaco Region

23 Dec, 2018

The Paraguayan Chaco region has been home to various groups of Indigenous peoples for millennia. But over the past few years, the land has been invaded by agribusinesses for the…

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The Poland Climate Conference Is Awash in Corporate Meddling

11 Dec, 2018

What are big-business interests doing at the Katowice United Nations conference? Read the original article here.

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Youth Activists Submit Their Demands at COP24: ‘We’re Fighting. Where Are You?’

5 Dec, 2018

While climate negotiators meet behind closed doors to implement the Paris Agreement, climate activists have put out their own set of demands. Read the original article here.

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