Real Solutions, Not False Promises: A Joint Call to Action
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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NGOs in global action against large-scale biomass energy
On the 21st of October 2024 environmental and civil society groups from around the world will take a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy. The international day…
Biodiversity Offsets: A Flawed Conservation Solution – New Analysis Debunks “No Net Loss” and Calls for Urgent Action
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…
Civil Society Organizations Worldwide Warn Against Biodiversity Offsets and Credits
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…
Advancing Gender Equity in Biodiversity: Insights from the GLA Gender Hub
In June 2024, the Green Livelihood Alliance’s (GLA) Gender Hub hosted another Inclusive Forest Community of Practice (InFoCP) session, focusing on preparations for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP16…
Quito Declaration: Tackling Industrial Animal Production
We present this declaration, arising from the “Meeting of Possible Horizons in the Face of Extractivism of Industrial Animal Production,” held in Ecuador, August 21-23, 2024. In response, the organisations…
A River’s Rights: Indigenous Kukama Women Lead the Way with Landmark Legal Victory
Here’s one of the most powerful pieces of good news you probably missed this year: a group of Indigenous women in Peru succeeded in asserting the legal right to integrity…
Are Global Climate Talks Delivering for the World’s Forests?
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…
Who Really Benefits? How REDD+ Fails Forests and Those Who Protect Them – A new Briefing from GFC
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 Joins CSOs in Calling Out Biodiversity Markets as False Solutions
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 July 2024: Uniting for Forests and Forest Peoples
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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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…
Striving for gender justice in forest and biodiversity governance: reflections on our exchange and capacity workshop parallel to the international biodiversity negotiations
WECF's Annabel Kennedy shares updates from recent meetings and side events by the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) held in parallel to the fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body of Implementation…
GFC’s Annual Report 2023 is out now
We are pleased to share with you a summary of the work done by the Global Forest Coalition in 2023. Our Annual Report describes the key moments and achievements of our campaigns…
We condemn violations of the right to protest and attacks on human rights and water defenders protesting against Carroll Farms in the Libres-Oriental Basin
We condemn violations of the right to protest and attacks on human rights and water defenders protesting against Carroll Farms in the Libres-Oriental Basin Mexico City, June 24, 2024…
White Paper launched on a just transition from industrial animal production
A new white paper from GFC and partners unites various civil society organisations dedicated to transforming the food system behind a common vision of an equitable, humane and sustainable food system and agreed pathways for food system transformation to…
Asymmetries in Resource Mobilization: Direct Access for Frontline Communities Still Overlooked
GFC's Valentina Figuera Martínez discusses points of contention in resource mobilization under the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) and whether to work with existing structures or create a dedicated financial…
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