The Poland Climate Conference Is Awash in Corporate Meddling
What are big-business interests doing at the Katowice United Nations conference? Read the original article here.
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Youth Activists Submit Their Demands at COP24: ‘We’re Fighting. Where Are You?’
While climate negotiators meet behind closed doors to implement the Paris Agreement, climate activists have put out their own set of demands. Read the original article here.
Global Climate Coalition Issues COP24 Demands, Calls for an End to Corporate Capture
KATOWICE – Today, people issued a unified, global call to governments: Listen to people, not polluters at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 24th Conference of the Parties…
Beef, soybeans’ production destroying biodiversity
(MENAFN – Daily News Egypt) Following a discussion held last week at the ongoing 14th Conference of Parties (COP14), under the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Egypt, the outcome highlighted…
CBD COP14: Deforestation, monocultures and Strategic Plans – The farce continues
by Souparna Lahiri, All India Forum of Forest Movements & Global Forest Coalition COP14 will review the progress in the implementation of the strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020 evaluating how…
CBD COP14: Who benefits from gene drives as a modern biotechnology?
by Kwami D. Kpondzo, Campaigns Officer at Les Amis de la Terre Togo and Africa Regional Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition The world is suffering because biodiversity is…
NGOs Call for Disinvestments in Biodiversity Destruction
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 21 2018 (IPS) – A discussion held earlier this week at the ongoing Convention of Biodiversity’s (CBD) Conference of Parties in Egypt highlighted that grants…
‘Greenwash’: oil giant under fire over plan to protect tropical forests
Campaigners say move by Norway’s Equinor is an excuse to keep drilling for fossil fuels. Read the original article here.
Ending subsidies for meat and soy sector is key to halting deforestation, shows new paper
18 Nov, Sharm El Sheikh: Incentives to produce and export meat and animal feedstocks like soy in major producer countries like Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina are a leading cause of…
The Dark Side of the Bioeconomy: Climate Catastrophe, Forest Destruction, and Human Rights Abuses
Over 115 Organisations from 40 countries hold day of action to reject the “BioFuture Platform” (November 7, 2018) — An international coalition of more than 120 organisations from 40 countries…
Over 120 groups from around the world declare large scale forest biomass energy a dangerous ‘delusion’
Organisations from over 30 countries release statement calling for an end to monetary and policy support for biomass (24 October 2018) – A loud chorus of civil society organisations representing…
Safeguard women against development -led disasters – Withanage
In Sri Lanka and in most other parts of the world, when massive development projects fail and lead to disaster, it is the women who are most vulnerable to the…
Do We Really Have the Time and the Tools to Fix Climate Change?
As part of the Paris agreement, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was asked “to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5…
How Harvard’s investments exacerbate global land and water conflicts
A similar letter appeared in 2014, this time written by an international group of leaders from civil society organizations, like the Croatan Institute and the Global Forest Coalition. “Four decades…
Cerrado towns terrorized to provide toilet paper for the world, say critics
A Mongabay investigation has found that global consumers who buy brand name toilet paper and tissues may unwittingly be fuelling land conflicts, environmental crimes and the loss of native vegetation…
GFC deeply congratulates and celebrates with LVC on its historic victory!
La Via Campesina UN Human Rights Council passes a resolution adopting the peasant rights declaration in Geneva 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 Press Release (Geneva, September 28, 2018) Seventeen years of long…
Fire and Plantations in Portugal: A case study on the risks of using tree plantations to remove carbon from the atmosphere
We are pleased to share the following piece originally published in Science for the People, a recently revitalized organization of activists and scientists that published a bimonthly magazine from 1969…
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