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COP21: We have a Deal…

11 Dec, 2015

By Souparna Lahiri   The negotiations are almost over. Governments, civil society, media, NGOs, INGOs, BINGOs have all come out with their demands, expectations and postures. A few caucus of northern groups and NGOs are still busy in their last minute lobbying and trying to connect desperately to some country delegates and their usual contacts. Who will break the news? Who has the latest on the draft text? Who has even the (sketchy) details of the internal discussion? In COP …

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The Phantom of the COP21 Opera: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

8 Dec, 2015

by Oliver Munnion* Yesterday I went to a briefing at the COP21 summit on how realistic achieving a 1.5 degree target as part of the Paris climate deal is, as…

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The dirty deal that is on the table – an update from Paris

8 Dec, 2015

Simon Fischer* Last week, the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) started with a big ballyhoo by the world leaders from all over the planet calling for action against climate…

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Biomyths: Bioenergy carbon neutrality myth is a time bomb under climate deal

8 Dec, 2015

7th December: The Global Forest Coalition [1] has launched a new report at the Paris climate talks today titled “Biomyths, the Costly Carbon Scam of Bioenergy”. [2] The report exposes how large-scale bioenergy…

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Art 3ter. New Carbon Markets under the name of Sustainable Development

7 Dec, 2015

By Pablo Solón  A draft climate agreement and decision with 48 pages and 939 brackets has been presented to the ministers in Paris on Saturday 5th of December. Many things…

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FPIC and TK Repatriation in the Pacific Context

2 Dec, 2015

By Sapa Saifaleupolu of the Ole Siosiomaga Society Inc. (OLSSI), Samoa. A whole two weeks have gone by after the Convention Biological Diversity (CBD) 9th meeting of the Working Group…

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What India’s INDC does not tell you about its forests

1 Dec, 2015

Souparna Lahiri* India’s INDC submitted to the UNFCC this October makes a commitment to the international committee including its statement ‘to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3…

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Influence of GM feedstock products for industrial livestock farming and related pesticides on human health and the environment

24 Nov, 2015

By Svetlana Abramovich* Genetically modified food (GM food) has been a hot topic since its first discovery. Various experiments of genetic engineering with organisms may seem progressive and even well…

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Influence of Russian consumption of unsustainably produced livestock products on climate change

19 Nov, 2015

Svetlana Abramovich* Nowadays all over the world, demand for animal products is rising very fast. By 2050, consumption of meat and dairy products is expected to have risen 76 per…

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New Briefing Paper Highlights Dangers Of A Fraudulent Accounting Framework On Land Use To Potential Climate Agreement

16 Nov, 2015

15 Nov 2015: The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] launched a new briefing paper [2] today, providing a critical overview of the problem of current carbon accounting rules in the…

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The Smooth Operators of Biodiversity Conservation

10 Nov, 2015

By Simone Lovera* For those who are currently following the highly polarized and unproductive climate negotiations it might seem unbelievable, but there are still UN processes that succeed to agree…

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Indigenous and Local Communities launch crucial report to help governments appropriately recognize and support community conservation

2 Nov, 2015

Community conservation: Indigenous peoples and local communities have shown that we understand much better the ways of sustainable living and conservation of nature than any technocrats and government authorities

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CBD’s Technical Workshop on Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

31 Oct, 2015

Isis Alvarez- Global Forest Coalition The very first workshop on Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) took place from 28 September to 2nd October in Johannesburg, South…

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5 Films that Could Help in the Struggles to Save Our Forests

26 Oct, 2015

By Emma Bailey*, youth guest blogger Despite being one of the largest contributors to climate change, the problem of deforestation and land degradation is largely removed from the public eye.…

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Slow down the process of growth; stop over-exploitation. There is more to just development.

23 Oct, 2015

By Anu Nettar* ‘In a fight between the elephants, a lot of leaves are lost’, said A. K. Barum, an independent expert, rightly pointing out the status of indigenous peoples…

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From rhetoric to action! Bern conference demands action on indigenous and community land rights

21 Oct, 2015

By Andrey Laletin An international conference, ‘From Rhetoric to Action: Scaling up Community and Indigenous Peoples’ Land and Resource Rights’, was organised in Bern, Switzerland, 30 September-1 October 2015. It…

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Activists Denounce Agribusiness Take-Over of UN Food Body

16 Oct, 2015

16 October: On the occasion of World Food Day [1] a coalition of environmental and indigenous groups [2] denounces undue corporate influence over the UN Committee on World Food Security…

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