GFC’s submission to the UNFCCC call for Parties and accredited organizations on modalities and procedures for financing results based-actions and activities related to decision 1/CP.16, paragraphs 68-70 and 72. This paper is the outcome of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action and was prepared by the CBD Alliance; it will focus on some of the risks of the so-called ‘innovative financial mechanisms” and will analyze some of their social risks, but also elaborate on the economic sustainability and feasibility of some of the mechanisms proposed. Moreover, the paper will discuss alternative strategies to mobilize new and additional financial resources to support biodiversity conservation in developing countries.
International Women’s Day: Gender Justice and Feminist Emancipation Are Fundamental to Protect Forests
Photos by: Kapyanga Women Association and Zamsof Across forests, territories and rural communities in the Global South, women, in all their diversity, are sustaining life. They cultivate food, protect seeds, defend forests, and pass on ancestral knowledge that keeps...
