Forests and Climate Change

Closing Gender Gaps in Biodiversity Conservation Demands Robust Indicators

18 Dec, 2023

GFC’s Valentina Figuera Martinez assesses the need for comprehensive reporting on implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) based on biodiversity data that also includes elements to integrate human rights and gender equality considerations into national biodiversity strategies and action plans. There is still a long way to go to ensure gender equality in the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework as we head to a new round of negotiations in 2024.

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The Carbon Conspiracy: False Promises, Real Threats

12 Dec, 2023

In the comic book The Carbon Conspiracy, a peaceful rural community’s existence is rocked by the arrival of a carbon offset project. What at first appears to be a win-win…

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Roots of Resilience Episode 5 Reflections from COP28

8 Dec, 2023

In this special Episode of Roots of Resilience, we come to you from COP28 in Dubai. We hear how the politics of the UNFCCC continues to relegate Indigenous Peoples, Civil…

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Global Leaders Urged to Urgently Reject Corporate-Backed Deceptions and Redirect Funding to Real Climate Solutions

5 Dec, 2023

Global leaders must urgently reevaluate and overhaul their climate finance strategies, which direct billions of dollars into false solutions, and instead redirect financial and policy commitments towards inclusive, community-driven solutions…

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Delay, Distract and Deceive: BECCS Developments in South America, Africa and Asia

4 Dec, 2023

Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies are among the most problematic in carbon removal geoengineering. This two-part series analyses the status of BECCS in South America, Africa, and Asia…

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Roots of Resilience Episode 4: Africa Rising

27 Oct, 2023

Through conversations with two exceptional African leaders, Lucy Mulenkei of IIN Kenya and Anabela Lemos of JA! Mozambique we unveil the harrowing effects of climate change & expose the repercussions…

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ADB: Coal exit must not entail support of the false solution of wood bioenergy

19 Oct, 2023

An open Letter to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) highlighting deep concerns regarding the bank's policy on phasing out of fossil fuels, coal in particular, which dangerously promotes false solutions…

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International Day of Action on Big Biomass 2023

19 Oct, 2023

On 19th October 2023 groups from six continents are taking a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy, a false climate solution. The international day of action is…

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New briefing paper | “The Devil’s Totality”: Paraguay’s Struggle Against Agribusiness and Monoculture

16 Oct, 2023

 We marked September 21, the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations, with a webinar and discussion titled ‘In the Shadow of Monoculture Plantations’, which delved deep into the…

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The outcome of UNEA consultations on NbS is not suitable as a basis for CBD negotiations

16 Oct, 2023

By Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition The draft SBSTTA recommendations ‘request the Executive secretary to review the outcomes of the intergovernmental consultations on nature-based-solutions undertaken by the United Nations Environment…

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GFC Submission to UNEP at final round of intergovernmental negotiations on NbS

13 Oct, 2023

GFC expressed its concerns around nature-based solutions projects in a submission to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the final round of intergovernmental negotiations on NbS, held…

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“Nature-based solutions” – another false, corporate pathway in the great greenwashing of the climate and biodiversity crise

12 Oct, 2023

With key United Nations and Global Convention on Biological Diversity meetings taking place in Nairobi, Kenya this October, GFC's Souparna Lahiri and Valentina Figuera Martínez raise the alarm on the infiltration…

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Roots of Resilience Episode 3: The Land is Not For Sale

28 Sep, 2023

In this episode of Roots of Resilience, we hear insights from our member groups in Chile, Colombia and Paraguay on the impacts of the colonial, patriarchal and extractivist model that…

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From Leticia to Belém: Still a long road to travel

29 Aug, 2023

Photo credit: Nathalia Segato By: Diego Cardona – Censat Agua Viva and Global Forest Coalition The fourth Amazon Summit has just taken place in Belém do Pará, Brazil, which brought…

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Roots of Resilience Episode 2: Struggle and Hope

16 Aug, 2023

In this episode of Roots of Resilience, we hear that not only is change possible, but it is already happening. We speak with activists in Brazil and Uganda on the…

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GFC stands with our LAC members and frontline communities – UN member states must immediately end the financing of false solutions

23 Jun, 2023

Photo credit: Annie Spratt  GFC regularly contributes to United Nations processes on issues like forests, biodiversity, climate change and gender in order to bring the priorities and perspectives of our…

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Roots of Resilience: A Podcast from the Global Forest Coalition

13 Jun, 2023

Episode 1: GFC on the Frontlines In this opening episode of Roots of Resilience, host Chithira Vijayakumar speaks with three of GFC’s lead campaigners on the work of GFC and our…

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