Forests and Climate Change

The Mpumalanga Environmental Youth Network meets with WWFSA and WESSA

11 Jul, 2016

by the Mpumalanga Environmental Youth Network (MEYN)* Spirits were high as the meeting of MEYN was adjourned at the Lowveld Botanical Gardens Education Centre on Saturday, 9 July 2016. The event was conceived for the purpose of introducing the network to one or two influential Civil Society environmental groups. MEYN, which consists of various Youth organisations, NPO’s and other environmental organisations, were able to engage with stalwart environmental NGO’s, the WWF and WESSA. The day started with a reflection on …

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Protected Areas as a Threat to the Sustainable Development Goals

29 Jun, 2016

By Simone Lovera* When we were preparing the capacity building workshop for the Community Conservation Resilience Initiative in Nepal, which took place on 24 and 25 June in Kathmandu, we…

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Surviving Ten Days in Bonn

10 Jun, 2016

By Souparna Lahiri* The last time I survived more than a week in a climate meeting was during the inter-sessional in Bangkok in the September of 2009. But, that was,…

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The Forest Investment Program: Recent Developments, Funding Constraints and Monoculture Tree Plantations

26 May, 2016

By Coraina de la Plaza* The Forest Investment Program (FIP) became operational in 2009 and is one of the programmes under the World Bank-administered Climate Investment Fund (CIF). The FIP…

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UN institutions must comply with target to halt deforestation by 2020, say forest groups on International Day for Biological Diversity

22 May, 2016

May 22, 2016. On the International Day for Biological Diversity, and a day ahead of the United Nations Environment Assembly meeting in Nairobi, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [2] reminded…

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In the aftermath of the Paris Agreement, nature and humanity lose

17 May, 2016

Mary Louise Malig* The Paris Agreement has been signed in New York with much fanfare, a lot of shaking hands and patting each other on the back, and claims that…

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Using Electoral Rights to Negotiate Community Forest Rights

14 Apr, 2016

Souparna Lahiri* With barely ten days to go for the polls to the State Legislature, the forest villagers in the Himalayan foothills, Terai and Duars of the eastern Indian State…

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The Green Climate Fund 12th Meeting of the Board: Main Outcomes and Controversies

13 Apr, 2016

By Coraina de la Plaza, Global Forest Coalition Last March, from the 8th to the 10th, the 12th meeting of Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board took place in its headquarters,…

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Aviation industry’s offset plans distracts from urgent need to reduce emissions, say environmental NGOs

4 Apr, 2016

4th April, Brussels – As member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the United Nations’ specialised aviation agency, gather in Utrecht to discuss ways to ‘offset’ emissions from…

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IMVELO-YETHU MEYN workshop and excursion

25 Mar, 2016

On the 12th and 13th of March, 2016, the Mpumalanga Environmental Youth Network (MEYN) met for a one day workshop on the Saturday, followed by an excursion on the Sunday.…

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Update from Brussels: debates on land use and bioenergy run high

18 Mar, 2016

by Simon Fischer* In the end of last year, the world looked with promising eyes to Paris after the adoption of a presumably historic climate agreement had been announced. The…

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Call for cancellation of Swedish carbon credit purchase in Uganda

10 Mar, 2016

Several environmental groups from around the world have today sent an open letter to the Swedish Energy Agency calling for the cancellation of the Agency’s purchase contract with the Norwegian…

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Urgent: We reject order that Gustavo Castro stay 30 days longer in Honduras

9 Mar, 2016

To the President of Honduras To the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras We reject the Honduran Attorney General’s decision to prolong the migration alert that impedes human rights defender…

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Destructive biofuels and wood-based biomass out of next Renewable Energy Directive say 115 organisations to EU renewables consultation

10 Feb, 2016

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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Don’t Trade away our Land and Forests for Carbon Offsets!

15 Jan, 2016

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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At the belly of the beast: GFC presentation at the Dutch Pavilion

7 Jan, 2016

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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A constructive engagement with animal farmers

7 Jan, 2016

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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