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The Power of Indigenous Women in Protecting Forests and Biodiversity

24 Aug, 2023

The Power of Indigenous Women in Protecting Forests and Biodiversity On the 2023 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) brought together Indigenous women leaders from Latin America for a special online event to celebrate their achievements and recognise their struggles as they advocate for the defence of their social, cultural, economic, holistic, and political world vision as an effective response to forest and biodiversity loss. In this inspirational event, we heard from Bernarda Pesoa, …

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Gender Justice and its Crucial Role in the Fight Against Factory Farming

24 Aug, 2023

The agrifood system is intricately woven with social class, gender, and ethnicity, perpetuating a matrix of capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial dominance that underlies unequal access to sustenance, safe working conditions,…

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Exploring Gender-Responsive Monitoring of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Insights from a July Event

24 Aug, 2023

Over six months since the historic signing of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), the Global Forest Coalition and our allies are working hard to ensure the gender-responsive monitoring of…

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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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Get to know the Belém Declaration

11 Aug, 2023

Leaders from State Parties involved in the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) convened in the Brazilian city of Belém for a two-day conference. The primary objective was to forge an agreement…

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Indigenous Peoples of the World: Guardians of Earth and Biodiversity

9 Aug, 2023

“My struggle is to honour grandma’s struggle: every day, tirelessly, and forever. To fight against the capturing spirits of our spirits, of that which hardens us and makes us incapable of…

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Webinar: The Power of Indigenous Women in Protecting Forests and Biodiversity

1 Aug, 2023

Please join us on Wednesday, 9 August, at 12 pm UTC for a special online event bringing together Indigenous Peoples, including Indigenous women leaders, from Latin America as we celebrate…

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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?…

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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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