At UNFCCC COP29 in Baku, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is urging immediate action to end the financing of false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading and offsetting, REDD+, monoculture plantations, bioenergy, and geoengineering.
**For Immediate Release** Indigenous Leaders and Environmental Advocates Call for an End to REDD+ Mechanism Amid Rights Violations and Deforestation New briefer exposes inherent flaws in REDD+ November 15, 2024,…
The Great REDD+ Climate Illusion: A flawed equation for forests, people, and planet A new briefer from the Global Forest Coalition GFC’s latest research critically examines the REDD+ program, showing…
The Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA) condemns today’s decision by the CMA, the UN body that takes decisions, to approve rules for the new Article 6.4 carbon market…
Cali, Colombia, 29 October 2024 “As long as governments are in cahoots with corporations to destroy nature, there cannot be ‘Peace with Nature.’” Souparna Lahiri of the Global Forest Coalition…
To halt global biodiversity loss in an equitable and gender-responsive manner, countries must stop subsidizing export-oriented economic sectors. By Souparna Lahiri and Valentina Figuera Martínez Common Dreams, 24 October 2024…
23 October 2024 — Members and leaders from the Global Forest Coalition held a press conference today at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) highlighting the need for countries to focus…
Published in ECO, 22 October 2024 by Souparna Lahiri Indonesia, under their Just Energy Transition Plan (JETP) proposes and has already initiated transforming coal power plants (CPPs) to co-firing with…
The False Promise of Biodiversity Offsets & the Myth of ‘No Net Loss’ In a pivotal new analysis from the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), launched in the run-up to…
A Joint Call to Action for Rejecting Market-Based Approaches and Advancing a Gender Just and Rights-Based Approach to Biodiversity Protection at CBD COP 16
Biodiversity offsets are a dangerous illusion—allowing corporations to profit while ecosystems are destroyed and communities pay the price, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) warned today. Instead of supporting this failed…
Over 270 civil society organizations and academics from around the world have voiced strong opposition to the use of biodiversity offsets and credits, warning that such mechanisms will fail to…
Are Global Climate Talks Delivering for the World’s Forests? A political overview of SB 60 from a forests’ perspective Download the English version of the briefer here Meetings…
In this new briefing, launched at the UN Climate Change Conference (SB60) in Bonn, we unravel the confusions, contradictions and inherent issues with the REDD+ program.
GFC has joined more than 200 organisations signing on to a civil society statement opposing biodiversity offsets and credits, arguing that biodiversity markets are being modeled on carbon markets, which…
Roots Newsletter: July 2024 Dear friends, members, allies and comrades, As we stride into the second half of the year, take a moment to reflect on the work of…
Информационный бюллетень Roots: июль 2024 г. Дорогие друзья, партнеры, союзники и товарищи! Вступая во вторую половину года, постарайтесь найти время, чтобы поразмышлять о результатах работы последних нескольких месяцев…
