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Indigenous Sami under threat from logging in Sweden

22 Apr, 2020

by Kristina Bäck, Protect the Forest, Sweden Sweden’s state-owned forestry company Sveaskog have announced that they will sell another 10,400 hectares of forest, more than 2,000 hectares of which are reindeer grazing forests around Maskaure, a Sami village in Arjeplog municipality. The company is also planning to log 32 natural reindeer grazing forests in the same area, totaling 400 hectares. Together with the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, the Sami of Maskaure are trying to stop these plans. Five forest …

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Environmental groups condemn Estonia’s rejection of ‘climate and biodiversity centered’ forestry impact assessment

8 Apr, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8 APRIL 2020 The Global Forest Coalition, a coalition of more than 100 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations from 65 different countries, along with 27 additional groups,…

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250 organisations demand red lines for aviation bailouts

6 Apr, 2020

#SavePeopleNotPlanes: Open letter demands that workers and the climate are put first 6th of April 2020 – Today, more than 250 organisations from 25 countries published an open letter directed…

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Anna Kirilenko appointed as new chairperson of the Global Forest Coalition

25 Mar, 2020

The Global Forest Coalition is happy to welcome Anna Kirilenko as its new chairperson. Anna has served as GFC’s board member for North and Central Asia and Eastern Europe for…

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32 organisations worldwide call on BlackRock to drop Drax

23 Mar, 2020

Originally published by Biofuelwatch A coalition of 32 environmental organisations worldwide has sent a letter to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, asking it to divest from Drax Plc, owner…

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Why the Green Climate Fund must reject Arbaro’s plantations

5 Mar, 2020

co-authored by the Global Forest Coalition and our member groups HEÑÓI (Paraguay), Iniciativa Amotocodie (Paraguay), Sobrevivencia/Friends of the Earth (Paraguay), The Development Institute (Ghana), The National Association of Professional Environmentalists…

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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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70 organizations and 30 scientists call on politicians and authorities: Stop the logging of high conservation value forests in Sweden

18 Feb, 2020

Original press release by GFC member group Protect the Forest: Today, 70 organizations from 25 countries and 30 scientists send an open letter to Swedish Ministers, Members of the Swedish…

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Remembering Ghanimat Azhdari

10 Jan, 2020

The Global Forest Coalition wishes to express our deep sorrow over the death of Ghanimat Azhdari, a dear friend and wonderful colleague, who was one of the many victims of…

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Market mechanisms and money: an overview of what’s at stake at COP25 in Madrid

6 Dec, 2019

The re-located COP25 in Madrid comes at a critical juncture of the climate negotiations on two main issues: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which deals with market-based approaches to…

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Chile 2019: El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (The Right to Live in Peace)

3 Dec, 2019

by Eduardo Giesen (Colectivo VientoSur) and Ruth Nyambura (Global Forest Coalition) On the 18th of October, the largest protests witnessed since the end of the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto…

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Forest conservation must address violence against women

25 Nov, 2019

by Jeanette Sequeira, Juana Vera Delgado and Ruth Nyambura, Global Forest Coalition November 25th has been designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the…

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The World Social Forum between politics and NGOs

18 Oct, 2019

This paper by Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek has been published in the journal Globalizations, as part of the “Transformational Responses to Authoritarian Capitalism: Learning with the World Social Forum” series Abstract The…

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World Food Day and the fires next time: Mortgaging the future of the planet for meat and dairy

16 Oct, 2019

By Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition) and Mia MacDonald (Brighter Green) The fires in the Amazon forests that shocked the world have been quenched by seasonal rains and the emergency…

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Greta Thunberg and the UN Climate Summit should reject monoculture tree plantations as a false solution

21 Sep, 2019

by Gary Graham Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition We are heading towards a week of intense climate actions starting with the Global Climate Strike and followed by…

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Remembering Fany Avila

2 Sep, 2019

The Global Forest Coalition mourns the loss of our colleague Fany Avila, director of the Asociación Indígena Ambiental in Panama

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Crocodile tears will not help to put out the Amazon’s fires

24 Aug, 2019

by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Being proven correct does not always feel good. When the Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest climate fund, proposed last January to give a…

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