Remembering Fany Avila
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
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…
Derail negotiations on market mechanisms: false solutions will not bring equity and climate justice
by Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition, India The outcome of COP24 in Katowice last December failed on many counts, despite the “victory leap“ of the Polish Secretary of State for…
Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business
Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks The Environmental Paper Network [1], Global Forest Coalition [2] and Biofuelwatch [3] have today issued a briefing to investors…
International groups team up with locals in opposition to Nuon Biomass Plant
12th April 2019 – The Global Forest Coalition [1], which brings together 99 NGOs and Indigenous People’s Organisations from 64 countries, and Dogwood Alliance [2], a conservation NGO working to…
Claiming Civic Space Together: conference in Copenhagen brings groups together to defend the defenders
by Linde Berbers, Global Forest Coalition intern Citizens and civil society organisations representing rightsholders and stakeholders play an essential role in all societies. In order to ensure the participation of…
Deforestation, a problem caused by government collusion
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…
“Respect traditional knowledge and promote community-led conservation”, say West African groups on International Day of Forests
From 18 to 21 March 2019, 32 representatives of local community groups, women’s groups and NGOs gathered for a West African skillshare on gender-sensitive community-based forest conservation and restoration initiatives,…
Remembering Peter deMarsh
Dear GFC friends, Yesterday we received the very sad news that our colleague Peter deMarsh, director of the International Forestry Family Association (IFFA), was one of the many people on…
Defend India’s forests and forest peoples: Defend Forest Rights Act
Press Release by All India Forum of Forest Movements (AIFFM) On 13 February, the Supreme Court of India, hearing a decade-old petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Forest Rights…
REDD+ and the Green Climate Fund: Confirming the Worst Fears
By Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek, director, Global Forest Coalition, Paraguay/Netherlands Photo: “Afforestation” in Bahia in Brazil. On 29 January 2019, environmental activist Rosane Santiago Silveira was brutally murdered when she was trying…
Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+: Creating an International Forest Regime
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…
Implications of Katowice: Where human rights were ignored while big business captured the negotiations
By: Souparna Lahiri* The Paris Rulebook (renamed the ‘Katowice Rulebook’ by many), the outcome of 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP24),…
“Gender is not Plan B!” Advancing gender-responsive measures in the CBD’s Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
by Mrinalini Rai, Global Forest Coalition Negotiations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are now at a crucial juncture. Governments, civil society, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women, youth and…
Agribusiness Invasion Threatens Indigenous of Paraguay’s Chaco Region
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…
Peoples’ voices and urgent solutions dismissed at COP24 in Katowice
Press Release from the Women and Gender Constituency on the outcomes of COP24 17 December, 2018, Katowice, Poland After two weeks of intense negotiations, women and gender groups represented in…
A gloomy future for climate finance at COP24
By Coraina de la Plaza, Global Forest Coalition Climate finance has again been one of the most sticky issues in international climate change negotiations this year. Since the signing of…
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