Forests and Climate Change

By Oliver Munnion, Global Forest Coalition. Originally published on germanclimatefinance.de. The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) wants 100 billion dollars to help finance the restoration of degraded landscapes across the…

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Pledges made towards the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) could result in nearly doubling the scale of commercial tree plantations across the continent. Download the briefing (2.1MB) AFR100 is…

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FOR RELEASE: Wednesday 8 September CLARA Members Call for Postponing COP26 COP26 climate change talks should be delayed, say CLARA organizations. The COP26 climate change conference scheduled for October 31…

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In response to the Asian Development Bank’s consultation on its “Energy Policy – Supporting Low-Carbon Transition in Asia and the Pacific”, 48 organizations involved in the Environmental Paper Network’s Biomass…

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[Português abaixo] The first delivery of eucalyptus trees to Aveiro in Portugal from the port of Beira in Mozambique has been received with strong criticism by Mozambican and Portuguese groups…

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Energy Charter Treaty: Including bioenergy within its remit would make this harmful treaty even worse The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) allows investors in the energy sector based in one member…

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Nine Portuguese environmental NGOs (including two GFC member groups) and with the support of another 58 organizations internationally have published an open letter (see below) to the Portuguese Government and…

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21 June 2021 — A coal power plant in Portugal that was supposed to be shut down could instead be converted into a biomass burning facility at great public expense,…

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Exposé of “net-zero” pledges uncovers grossly insufficient plans and the strategies polluting industries have used to lock in the ineffective schemes Press release, for immediate use – In the midst…

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Three big United Nations summits are coming up on food, biodiversity and the climate, and the private sector is poised to have a major influence at all of them, making…

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