Forests and Climate Change

Campaigners say: False solutions to climate change do not cut emissions but damage land and livelihoods in other countries 10th February 2016 – 115 civil society organisations and networks from…

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A brief report on the Global Forest Coalition activities in the road up to and during the COP21 in Paris, France By Mary Louise Malig On the Road to Paris…

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The GFC held a side event presenting the unsustainable nature of large-scale animal farming and of excessive reliance on meat products in the human diet on December 10th. It took…

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On December 9th at the Centquatre, a place where most constructive events around Cop 21 took place, the GFC organized a debate on animal farming and its negative impacts –which…

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By Miguel Lovera* Negotiations to solve climate change started 23 years ago. Ever since then, a trend towards commercializing the problems and the solutions started to be identifiable. More and…

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by Jeanette Sequeira Whilst news headlines are focused on the negotiations and government delegations at the COP21 in Paris, there are other important dialogues taking place with more potential to effect real…

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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…

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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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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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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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