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‘Absolutely everything is cross-cut by gender. We have to include more men in the debate’

11 Jul, 2023

By: Valentina Figuera Martínez, coordinator of the Gender Justice and Forests Campaign   What does it mean to be men? Why are there so few of us in this workshop? How can we work on gender within our organizations and communities? What does the care economy mean to us? These were the questions raised by Rafael Vera of UNICAM, a GFC member group in Argentina, at the start of an online discussion hosted by the Gender Justice and Forests Campaign …

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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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Press Statement: Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions

6 Jun, 2023

Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions Corporate co-opting of global climate policy is leading us to a climate catastrophe BONN, June 6, 2023 – UN member states…

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Campaign Briefing: Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions

5 Jun, 2023

Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions: A Roadmap Towards Gender-Just & Real Climate Justice Download the briefer here: A Brief on the Urgent Need to Divest Public Climate Finance…

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World Environment Day from a feminist perspective

5 Jun, 2023

June 5th is World Environment Day, an occasion on which to join our efforts to the increasing global demand for strong and explicit measures to curb environmental catastrophe and the…

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Watch now: GFC’s Press Conference Calling for Urgent Divestment from False Solutions

5 Jun, 2023

As negotiators gather in Bonn, Germany for the Climate Change Conference (SB58) from June 5-15, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) and member organizations organised a press conference on how the…

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Presenting Global Forest Coalition’s 2022 Annual Report

24 May, 2023

It’s here! The annual report of the Global Forest Coalition for 2022 is out now. Read about our campaigning, events, and outreach during the last year and all of the…

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Transformative change with environmental and gender justice demands real solutions on climate, not schemes like “Nature-Based Solutions”

23 May, 2023

Photo credit: Fernando Franceschelli We regularly contribute 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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Video: Call on the World Bank to #StopFinancingFactoryFarming

12 May, 2023

May 2023   Created by Stop Financing Factory Farming, a diverse global coalition working to shift public development finance away from industrial animal agriculture, to sustainable and equitable food production…

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Webinar: Gender-Just and Community Rights Perspectives on Pathways to 1.5

2 May, 2023

Click here to register for the event. The latest IPCC reports paint a difficult path to 1.5C and we are already seeing the devastating effects of climate change at 1.2C…

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Groups Demand World Bank Shift Lending away from Industrial Animal Agriculture

12 Apr, 2023

April 12, 2023 WASHINGTON DC – Friends of the Earth and the global Stop Financing Factory Farming Campaign (S3F) announce a week of action targeting the World Bank Group (WBG) and…

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Call for the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of largest voluntary carbon offset certifier

23 Mar, 2023

80 NGOs ask the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of the largest voluntary carbon offset certifier Joint letter, 22 March 2023 In November 2022, the European Commission presented…

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‘Forests represent health’: An interview with Fundaexpresión on the International Day of Forests

21 Mar, 2023

Photo: Biodiversity monitoring workshop with children in the Selva Alto Andina in Suratá, Santander, Colombia On the International Day of Forests, the Global Forest Coalition salutes the work of our…

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UN Member States: Reject False Climate Solutions, Direct Policy and Funding to Immediate Carbon Emissions Reductions and Real Solutions

20 Mar, 2023

UN Member States: Reject False Climate Solutions, Direct Policy and Funding to Immediate Carbon Emissions Reductions and Real Solutions IPCC report clearly shows there is no room for carbon offsets…

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International Women’s Day: An Occasion to Recall that the Fight Continues

8 Mar, 2023

Let’s wake up! Let’s wake up, humankind! We’re out of time. We must shake our conscience free from the rapacious capitalism, racism and patriarchy that will only assure our own…

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Press release from Don’t Geoengineer Africa: A Warning Call from African Civil Society Organizations

17 Feb, 2023

Source: handsoffmotherearth.org 15 February, 2023–Civil Society Organizations that advocate for climate and environmental justice are calling on the African Union to not Geoengineer Africa ahead of the African Union Heads…

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