43rd issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

In this new issue of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: the editorial addresses the main happenings during the last United Nations Forum on Forests were market based approaches gained new ground; followed by an article that gives an overview of what the last climate negotiations in Bonn were about providing a critical view on what seems to be coming next; the next article deals with the ‘Cilmate Space’, an important space given to civil society, indigenous peoples and other organizations who have been actively involved in climate change issues during the last World Social Forum held in Tunis. Former Ambassador of Bolivia to the UN, Pablo Solón, makes a reflection on what this space meant for the different struggles occuring in our days. The following report written by a Guatemalan activist, sums up what the post2015 and Sustainable Development Goals processes emerging from Rio+20 have meant for civil society including a deep analysis on why the way these processes are currently proposed are not likely to give any of the expected results. The last article is based on the happenings during the last GE trees biotech Conference held in Asheville, North Carolina where GE trees proposals are increasingly meeting with public opposition.