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 Aftonbladet. The investigation cites the GFC report and its author, David Kureeba, from GFC member group the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), Uganda.
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
Originally published by IISD 2020 was meant to be an important year – a “super year”– for addressing the global biodiversity crisis, culminating in the adoption of an ambitious framework…
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…
Published in Aktuell Hallbarhet For more on the campaign see 70 organizations and 30 scientists call on politicians and authorities: Stop the logging of high conservation value forests in Sweden
By Lourdes Uquillas, EFEverde Deforestation is one of the biggest problems today due to the destruction of biodiversity, in many cases by multinationals based in Europe, Canada, or China, that…
Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+: Creating an International Forest Regime Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek, Global Forest Coalition, Asunción, Paraguay It was hoped that by paying forest dependent peoples and countries for…
The Paraguayan Chaco region has been home to various groups of Indigenous peoples for millennia. But over the past few years, the land has been invaded by agribusinesses for the…
What are big-business interests doing at the Katowice United Nations conference? Read the original article here.
