Forests and Climate Change

We Know What’s Behind Biodiversity Loss—It’s Time to Actually Tackle It

30 Oct, 2024

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 As global leaders converge in Colombia for the COP16 global biodiversity summit this week, they face a stark reality: Despite over a decade of pledges to protect biodiversity, not a single global target has been fully achieved. Forests continue to burn, habitats are vanishing, and biodiversity is spiraling toward collapse. …

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Halt biodiversity loss and corporate-led false solutions that exclude Indigenous Peoples, women and local communities, GFC says

23 Oct, 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…

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“Green Paradox”: subsidising biomass to destroy biodiversity

22 Oct, 2024

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…

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The False Promise of Biodiversity Offsets: Launch of a New Analysis by GFC

21 Oct, 2024

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…

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Real Solutions, Not False Promises: A Joint Call to Action

21 Oct, 2024

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

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Biodiversity Offsets: A Flawed Conservation Solution – New Analysis Debunks “No Net Loss” and Calls for Urgent Action

10 Oct, 2024

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…

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Civil Society Organizations Worldwide Warn Against Biodiversity Offsets and Credits

2 Oct, 2024

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…

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Are Global Climate Talks Delivering for the World’s Forests?

27 Aug, 2024

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…

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Who Really Benefits? How REDD+ Fails Forests and Those Who Protect Them – A new Briefing from GFC

29 Jul, 2024

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.

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GFC Joins CSOs in Calling Out Biodiversity Markets as False Solutions

24 Jul, 2024

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…

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Roots July 2024: Uniting for Forests and Forest Peoples

22 Jul, 2024

  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…

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RUS Roots July 2024

22 Jul, 2024

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…

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Advocating for Land Rights in the Context of Climate Change

30 Apr, 2024

A new study and film from Bread for the World explores the issue of advocating for land rights in the context of climate change.

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Don’t gamble with our future: Reject the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework

8 Apr, 2024

The Global Forest Coalition today joined with nearly 200 other organisations under the Real Zero Europe campaign in calling on the EU Parliament to reject the Carbon Removal Certification Framework…

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A call for global accountability on forests

21 Mar, 2024

A call for global accountability on forests This year’s International Day of Forests comes at a critical inflection point, as global leaders hover between unprecedented ambition and devastating complacency. While…

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Press Release: Human Rights and Environmental Concerns Found in UN-financed large-scale Livestock Project in Colombia

5 Mar, 2024

The United Nations-backed Green Climate Fund through &Green and the FMO (The Dutch Development Bank) and other climate financiers must halt financing false solutions to climate change and redirect support…

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Examining “Sustainable” Livestock Intensification and Financing: A Critical Analysis of the Hacienda San José Case in Colombia

5 Mar, 2024

To tackle the climate crisis adequately, it is important that climate finance flows massively to initiatives that have real positive effects in terms of climate change mitigation and that have…

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