GFC in the news

We Know What’s Behind Biodiversity Loss—It’s Time to Actually Tackle It

30 Oct, 2024

To halt global biodiversity loss in an equitable and gender-responsive manner, countries must stop subsidizing export-oriented economic sectors. By Souparna Lahiri and Valentina Figuera Martínez Common Dreams, 24 October 2024 As global leaders converge in Colombia for the COP16 global biodiversity summit this week, they face a stark reality: Despite over a decade of pledges to protect biodiversity, not a single global target has been fully achieved. Forests continue to burn, habitats are vanishing, and biodiversity is spiraling toward collapse. …

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Will COP16 on Biodiversity Listen to Indigenous Women or Corporate Lobbyists?

26 Oct, 2024

Published in Truthout Will COP16 on Biodiversity Listen to Indigenous Women or Corporate Lobbyists? Indigenous women have long been at the forefront of the global movement for land and territorial…

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“Green Paradox”: subsidising biomass to destroy biodiversity

22 Oct, 2024

Published in ECO, 22 October 2024 by Souparna Lahiri Indonesia, under their Just Energy Transition Plan (JETP) proposes and has already initiated transforming coal power plants (CPPs) to co-firing with…

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A River’s Rights: Indigenous Kukama Women Lead the Way with Landmark Legal Victory

4 Sep, 2024

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…

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Striving for gender justice in forest and biodiversity governance: reflections on our exchange and capacity workshop parallel to the international biodiversity negotiations

8 Jul, 2024

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…

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GFC points finger at South Korea for taking advantage of climate accounting loophole to expand biomass industry

13 Jun, 2024

Following a side event at Bonn SB60, GFC’s Kwami Kponzo was quoted in South Korean media along with other allies who spoke at the event which brought a spotlight on…

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GFC challenges the notion of environmentally and socially responsible commercial forestry in Africa

3 Jun, 2024

GFC’s Africa Coordinator Kwami Kpondzo told Africa Business Magazine that despite claims to the contrary from the logging industry, there is no real way to mitigate the more damaging impacts…

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GFC report cited in Uganda carbon offsetting investigation

8 May, 2024

The Global Forest Coalition's 2022 report Trees for Global Benefit Uganda: A Case Study on the Failures of Carbon Offsetting was cited in a new investigation by the Swedish newspaper…

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GFC points out problems with forest offsets in Guyana

11 Apr, 2024

Guayana is a heavily forested country in South America, and according to reports, it’s becoming “the world’s newest petro-state.” Oil companies appear to be touting false solutions to climate impacts…

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Guaraní women’s environmental and gender justice struggle highlighted in Ms. Magazine

17 Jan, 2023

Published in Ms. Magazine on 1/11/2023 by Juana Vera Delgado This article was written by Senior Gender Expert Juana Vera Delgado of the Global Forest Coalition and appeared in Ms.…

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GFC interviewed about the new Global Biodiversity Framework

21 Dec, 2022

GFC’s Simone Lovera spoke with Inter-Press Service about the new Global Biodiversity Framework that came out of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal (COP15) on Monday, December 19. In conversation…

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Op-ed in Ms. Magazine: Beware of Climate Colonialism at COP27

8 Nov, 2022

Published by Ms. Magazine on 11/4/2022 by Souparna Lahiri, Maureen Santos and Kwami Kpondzo As U.N. climate negotiators meet for their 27th annual conference in Egypt, sponsored by Coca-Cola, they are poised to…

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Commentary in Mongabay: EU’s anti-deforestation trade rule should be more women-friendly

26 Oct, 2022

Published in Mongabay by Simone Lovera on 26 October 2022 Photo by Abhaya Raj Josh/Mongabay: A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal…

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GFC in the News: World Environment Day and the Importance of Community Conservation

7 Jun, 2022

June 5 was World Environment Day. On that occasion, MongaBay interviewed GFC’s Executive Director Simone Lovera in an article about the “triple threat” of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.…

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Global Forest Coalition featured on Women Rising Radio

3 May, 2022

Recently, the work of Global Forest Coalition was featured on an episode of Women Rising Radio called “Deforestation Emergency.” Interviews were done with Bernarda Pessoa of CONAMURI in Paraguay and…

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We Can’t Achieve Climate Justice Without Gender Justice: A Response to the Glasgow Talks

17 Nov, 2021

Op-ed by Jeanette Sequeira and Coraina de la Plaza, Ms. Magazine, 21 November 2021–With the international climate talks beginning in Glasgow, many are weary of the deceptive and failing policy…

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Nederlandse pensioenfondsen financieren ontbossing en daar kunnen en moeten ze iets aan doen

13 Apr, 2021

Originally published in de Volkskrant Nederlandse banken en pensioenfondsen faciliteren en investeren in de wereldwijde ontbossing, schrijven Simone Lovera, Kirsten Meijer en Hannah Mowat. De pensioensector is lui en zelfingenomen,…

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