Forests and Climate Change

Roll up, roll up! The Net Zero Circus is coming to a forest near you

30 Sep, 2020

by the GFC climate team Today is the start of the three-day Net Zero Festival, an online event featuring a whole range of dirty companies such as Shell, the seventh most polluting fossil fuel company in the world, and Drax, which owns the world’s largest biomass power station and single biggest point source of carbon emissions in the UK. They will flaunt their “green” credentials, which hinge on “net zero” commitments and investments in Nature-based Solutions (NBS). With all of …

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A “peoples’ response”: Over 100 organizations sign letter criticizing the UN’s biodiversity summit

30 Sep, 2020

CBD Alliance Press Release: Organizations from around the world, the majority from the global South, have published a “Peoples’ response to the High-Level Summit on Biodiversity”, which raises critical points…

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The impacts of tree plantations on women & women-led resistance to monocultures

20 Sep, 2020

September 21st marks International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, a day to celebrate resistance against the establishment and expansion of harmful commercial monocultures. To commemorate the occasion and…

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Global coalition releases liability “roadmap” for governments to Make Big Polluters Pay

15 Sep, 2020

Today, a global coalition released a “liability roadmap”: a first-of-its-kind tool outlining how local to global decision makers, including government officials, can hold polluting industries liable for the climate damage…

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15 years of REDD+: Has it been worth the money?

3 Sep, 2020

New briefing explains the basics of REDD+ and why it’s so contentious It’s 15 years since the United Nations climate convention unveiled REDD (and then REDD+) as its much-hyped solution…

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Action alert! Development banks: Stop investing in industrial animal agriculture

6 Aug, 2020

As fires rage once again in parts of Latin America, send a strong message to international development banks: stop fueling the climate crisis and new pandemics by investing in industrial…

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Letter of concern to the European Investment Bank (EIB) to stop finance for industrial livestock production

22 Jul, 2020

Over 20 organisations including the Global Forest Coalition have sent an open letter (copied below) to the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) calling on them to align their…

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Open letter: International development banks must stop funding industrial livestock farming

2 Jul, 2020

Over 30 organisations including the Global Forest Coalition have signed an open letter (also copied below) to the Chief Executive Officer of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the President…

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Environmental groups denounce deeply flawed EU consultation on the Climate Target Roadmap 2030

23 Jun, 2020

Amsterdam, 23rd June 2020 – In a strong critique of the EU’s stakeholder consultation about potential major revisions to its climate policy, Global Forest Coalition, representing more than 100 NGOs…

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Forest loss for large-scale agriculture and extractive industries goes hand in hand with violence against women

5 Jun, 2020

by John C. Cannon, originally published on Mongabay Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss Women in the province of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea…

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Climate finance for bioenergy and tree plantations is fueling conflicts with communities in Brazil

24 May, 2020

Ahead of our webinar on “Climate finance for tree plantations and bioenergy, and why these false solutions must not be subsidised with public money”, we’ve published a case study on…

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Our Nature is Not Your Solution – and FAO’s Plantations are even less of a Solution!

22 May, 2020

By Ruth Nyambura, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Kenya On the 22nd of May each year the world celebrates the International Day of Biological Diversity and this year’s celebrations are significant…

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Forest Cover 61: #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution, International Day for Biological Diversity

22 May, 2020

As part of the #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution campaign we're launching this special edition of our magazine Forest Cover, written in collaboration with our member groups. Forest Cover highlights how hype around NBS…

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Action alert: join us to oppose nature-based solutions greenwash on International Day for Biological Diversity

16 May, 2020

May 22nd is International Day for Biological Diversity, and the theme chosen by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this year is “Our solutions are in nature”. This…

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Indigenous Sami under threat from logging in Sweden

22 Apr, 2020

by Kristina Bäck, Protect the Forest, Sweden Sweden’s state-owned forestry company Sveaskog have announced that they will sell another 10,400 hectares of forest, more than 2,000 hectares of which are…

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Environmental groups condemn Estonia’s rejection of ‘climate and biodiversity centered’ forestry impact assessment

8 Apr, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8 APRIL 2020 The Global Forest Coalition, a coalition of more than 100 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations from 65 different countries, along with 27 additional groups,…

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250 organisations demand red lines for aviation bailouts

6 Apr, 2020

#SavePeopleNotPlanes: Open letter demands that workers and the climate are put first 6th of April 2020 – Today, more than 250 organisations from 25 countries published an open letter directed…

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