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The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender Transformative Solutions to Climate Change

3 Nov 2022

False solutions to climate change are being increasingly called out and rejected by communities around the world. Real solutions that are rights-based and gender-transformative do exist, and they are the only way to prevent catastrophic global temperature rise. Policy-makers on forests and climate change must take these real solutions into account. Find out more in the latest issue of Forest Cover. Forest Cover 68 provides context on the difficult journey to achieving climate justice and the context in which GFC …

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

3 Nov 2022

International Community Must End Greenwashing and Ensure Rights-Based, Gendered Response to Climate Crisis November 3, 2022, UTRECHT—The international community must reject false climate solutions including carbon offsetting and burning of forest…

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Press release: Foxes guard the “net zero” henhouse

2 Nov 2022

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

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Potentials and Risks of the African Forest Landscape Restoration (AFR100) Initiative

26 Oct 2022

by Philip Owen, published 25 October 2022 in germanclimatefinance.de | Commercial tree plantations are a major cause of land degradation and have no place in efforts to restore degraded ecosystems.…

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The industrialisation of forest-based bioenergy in Nepal and its impacts on women and other forest-dependent peoples

21 Oct 2022

Download this report as a PDF The Industrialisation of Forest-Based Bioenergy Production in Nepal and Its Impacts on Women and Other Forest-Dependent Peoples By Bhola Bhattarai Introduction…

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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 Climate Solution. Press Release, 21st October 2022 – Leading up…

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

17 Oct 2022

The Global Forest Coalition is pleased to bring you a new report, to continue the important messaging around the International Day of Rural Women: A Gendered Perspective on the Proposed…

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Statement: Monoculture Tree Plantations Are Not Forests!

21 Sep 2022

By the African Biomass Working Group, a member of Environmental Paper Network’s Forests, Climate and Biomass Working Group and Global Forest Coalition member organisations in Africa September 21 is the…

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Organising for an International Day of Action on Big Biomass on 21 October 2022

13 Sep 2022

On the 21st of October 2022 the forests, climate and biomass working group invites all of its members and supporters to join us for an International Day of Action on…

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Civil Society Groups Say UN-backed TNFD Proposal Invites Corporate Greenwashing on Nature

5 Aug 2022

forestsandfinance.org, 3 August 2022 – Today, thirteen civil society organizations are sounding the alarm about the corporate greenwashing on nature that the work of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures…

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Stolen land and fading forests in Chile: New report on conflict plantations

11 Jul 2022

A new report from the Environmental Paper Network, GFC and Colectivo VientoSur reveals another case of “Conflict Plantations,” this time in Chile. Read in English / leer en español Chile’s…

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The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender Transformative Solutions to Climate Change

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

Press release: Foxes guard the “net zero” henhouse

Potentials and Risks of the African Forest Landscape Restoration (AFR100) Initiative

The industrialisation of forest-based bioenergy in Nepal and its impacts on women and other forest-dependent peoples

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

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

Statement: Monoculture Tree Plantations Are Not Forests!

Organising for an International Day of Action on Big Biomass on 21 October 2022

Civil Society Groups Say UN-backed TNFD Proposal Invites Corporate Greenwashing on Nature

Stolen land and fading forests in Chile: New report on conflict plantations

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