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A New Chapter in GFC’s Story: Welcoming Our New Policy Director

24 Apr, 2023

April 2023 Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members, allies, friends, colleagues, and supporters, we write to you today with exciting news, welcoming the coalition’s new policy director, Wolfgang Kuhlmann. Wolfgang, a former GFC Board Member, brings with him over 20 years of experience in forestry policy and advocacy. He joins GFC in this key strategic role following the departure of the coalition’s co-founder and longstanding director, Simone Lovera, who left earlier this year to take up a new challenge. On …

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Call for the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of largest voluntary carbon offset certifier

23 Mar, 2023

smoke stacks and text that says "stop the carbon offset con"

80 NGOs ask the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of the largest voluntary carbon offset certifier Joint letter,…

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International Women’s Day: An Occasion to Recall that the Fight Continues

8 Mar, 2023

Berta Caceres sitting near a river, looking back over her shoulder and smiling

Let’s wake up! Let’s wake up, humankind! We’re out of time. We must shake our conscience free from the rapacious…

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Farewell our friend, Avtandil Geladze of the Greens Georgia

26 Jan, 2023

Avtandil Geladze was a person who loved his homeland, his region, his friends and his faith. He now embarks on…

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The Elephant in the COP15 Negotiations Rooms: Global Tourism and Its Impacts on Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples

17 Dec, 2022

By Souparna Lahiri in ECO While the World Travel and Tourism Council lobbies at the COP 15 Global Biodiversity Summit…

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Community participation from Central Asia in the Global Biodiversity Framework

15 Dec, 2022

A landscape with trees in Russia

Published in ECO on December 14, 2022 By Elena Kreuzberg, Global Forest Coalition (regional focal point for East and Central…

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The TNFD: What it is, who’s behind it and why it’s a major greenwashing risk

13 Dec, 2022

Hand in a green glove painting dirty business green, to illustrate greenwashing of TNFD

This week at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) will meet with…

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Is the BRI in line with an “ecological civilization?” Whose future counts?

7 Dec, 2022

Dusty road, an image of the Pan-Borneo Highway near Sebangkoi Park, Sarawak

By Allie Constantine (Global Forest Coalition) in ECO, Vol. 65 7 December 2022 China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), hailed…

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Media Advisory: Joint Press Conference COP15: Biodiversity’s Paris or Biodiversity’s Copenhagen?

7 Dec, 2022

With the future of biodiversity on the line, UN member states meeting in Montreal this December are negotiating a new…

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CBD COP15: Biodiversity’s ‘Paris’ or ‘Copenhagen’?

28 Nov, 2022

Sea turtle swimming in a blue ocean, photo by Marcos Paulo Prado

Commentary By Simone Lovera on www.boell.de // Русский ниже Just weeks after the failed United Nations Climate Summit in Egypt, UN member…

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COP27 Peoples’ Declaration for Climate Justice

18 Nov, 2022

Women and men marching and holding a green banner at COP27 in Egypt, photo by Adrien Salazar

17 November 2022, Sharm El Sheikh–Hundreds of climate activists, Indigenous representatives, human rights activists, environmental defenders, workers and feminist groups…

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Briefing on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement from Demand Climate Justice

15 Nov, 2022

Climate action in the street at COP26 in Glasgow with pink umbrellas that say "climate crisis, act now!"

As week two of COP27 kicks off, this year’s climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh are reaching a crucial phase.…

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Latest Draft Confirms TNFD’s Reputation as ‘The Next Frontier In Corporate Greenwashing On Nature’

8 Nov, 2022

River in the rainforest in Balok, Malaysia, photo by Eutah Mizushima

Press Release by Forests & Finance, 7 November 2022— Almost 18 months after the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)…

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New GFC report shines a spotlight on devastating impacts of false climate solutions

3 Nov, 2022

cover image press release

International Community Must End Greenwashing and Ensure Rights-Based, Gendered Response to Climate Crisis November 3, 2022, UTRECHT—The international community must reject…

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Press release: Foxes guard the “net zero” henhouse

2 Nov, 2022

cover of report: conflicted beyond credibility

New analysis examines polluting industry ties to global “net zero” initiatives SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT — Some of the most prominent…

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NGOs Call on UN Climate Conference to Fix Flawed Carbon Accounting Rules: Don’t let our future go up in smoke!

20 Oct, 2022

A worldwide network of environmental groups take a stand against large-scale Forest Biomass burning to produce energy, a False…

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A gendered perspective on the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

17 Oct, 2022

Woman farming carrots in Cambodia

The Global Forest Coalition is pleased to bring you a new report, to continue the important messaging around the International…

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