Forests and Climate Change

32 organisations worldwide call on BlackRock to drop Drax

23 Mar, 2020

Originally published by Biofuelwatch A coalition of 32 environmental organisations worldwide has sent a letter to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, asking it to divest from Drax Plc, owner of the world’s largest wood-burning power station in the UK, and to clarify its position on biomass energy. BlackRock is Drax’s joint third largest shareholder, holding a 5% stake in the company. While biomass energy is promoted by the industry and the UK government as a cleaner alternative to coal, …

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New briefing: Can sustainability and greenhouse gas standards protect the climate, forests and communities from the impacts of wood-based bioenergy?

12 Mar, 2020

This briefing is published jointly by the Global Forest Coalition and our UK and US-based member group, Biofuelwatch. In it we analyse efforts to implement sustainability and greenhouse gas standards…

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Why the Green Climate Fund must reject Arbaro’s plantations

5 Mar, 2020

co-authored by the Global Forest Coalition and our member groups HEÑÓI (Paraguay), Iniciativa Amotocodie (Paraguay), Sobrevivencia/Friends of the Earth (Paraguay), The Development Institute (Ghana), The National Association of Professional Environmentalists…

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Women’s rights and traditional knowledge are crucial for conserving biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan

3 Mar, 2020

[Русская версия] Last week, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) negotiations in Rome aimed to set out a global biodiversity framework for the coming decades. The sheer scale of the challenges…

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Convention on Biological Diversity: The Great Contradictions in the Zero Draft

25 Feb, 2020

by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Originally published in ECO Volume 61, Issue 1 The zero draft of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework looks like a wonderful document at first…

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70 organizations and 30 scientists call on politicians and authorities: Stop the logging of high conservation value forests in Sweden

18 Feb, 2020

Original press release by GFC member group Protect the Forest: Today, 70 organizations from 25 countries and 30 scientists send an open letter to Swedish Ministers, Members of the Swedish…

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Market mechanisms and money: an overview of what’s at stake at COP25 in Madrid

6 Dec, 2019

The re-located COP25 in Madrid comes at a critical juncture of the climate negotiations on two main issues: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which deals with market-based approaches to…

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Chile 2019: El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (The Right to Live in Peace)

3 Dec, 2019

by Eduardo Giesen (Colectivo VientoSur) and Ruth Nyambura (Global Forest Coalition) On the 18th of October, the largest protests witnessed since the end of the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto…

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Global Forest Coalition and allies’ events in Chile

1 Dec, 2019

The Global Forest Coalition is participating in the People’s Summit and Women’s Tent in Santiago de Chile over the next week with events on women’s rights and gender justice, unsustainable…

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Forest conservation must address violence against women

25 Nov, 2019

by Jeanette Sequeira, Juana Vera Delgado and Ruth Nyambura, Global Forest Coalition November 25th has been designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the…

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Is climate finance for cookstove and charcoal projects helping communities, forests or the climate?

24 Nov, 2019

Originally published on germanclimatefinance.de International climate and forest-related finance has always been one of the stickiest issues in multilateral efforts to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change,…

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Greta Thunberg and the UN Climate Summit should reject monoculture tree plantations as a false solution

21 Sep, 2019

by Gary Graham Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition We are heading towards a week of intense climate actions starting with the Global Climate Strike and followed by…

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Forest Cover 59: Bioenergy in West Africa – impacts on women and forests

18 Sep, 2019

In this issue of Forest Cover we explore the full spectrum of bioenergy developments and use in West Africa and how they are impacting women and forests. The articles cover…

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Crocodile tears will not help to put out the Amazon’s fires

24 Aug, 2019

by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Being proven correct does not always feel good. When the Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest climate fund, proposed last January to give a…

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On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples we welcome the IPCC’s recognition of the role that indigenous women, and men, play in forest protection, climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation

10 Aug, 2019

The need to protect forests and biodiversity in order to mitigate the impacts of the climate emergency is a key conclusion in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

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Land rights and livelihoods key to achieving sustainable development for Kenya’s indigenous women

11 Jul, 2019

Also published on Intercontinental Cry Governments gathered today at the High-level Political Forum at United Nations Headquarters in New York are discussing Sustainable Development Goal 13, on climate action. But…

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Derail negotiations on market mechanisms: false solutions will not bring equity and climate justice

13 Jun, 2019

by Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition, India The outcome of COP24 in Katowice last December failed on many counts, despite the “victory leap“ of the Polish Secretary of State for…

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