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Vacancy: Unsustainable livestock production campaign assistant

3 Aug, 2020

Call for a Campaign Assistant: Job description and requirements We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced campaign assistant to join our team. The aim of the Unsustainable Livestock Campaign is to halt and reverse the expansion of unsustainable livestock production, and support alternative agro-ecological models of food production, highlighting the gender-differentiated impacts and the rights and the roles of women. The livestock campaign assistant will assist in the planning and successful and timely implementation of activities to advance the …

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New gender equality report on Latin America cites gap between UN goals and local realities

8 Jul, 2020

July 8, 2020 — A report released today sheds light on gender equality in Latin America through community-based assessments in five countries, suggesting that a significant gap remains between progress…

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Respect for women’s rights at stake: The gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions

7 Jul, 2020

by Juana Vera Delgado, Global Forest Coalition (Русский ниже) Assessing progress on gender equality and the impacts of COVID-19 are top on the agenda at the UN’s High-Level Political Forum…

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Environmental groups denounce deeply flawed EU consultation on the Climate Target Roadmap 2030

23 Jun, 2020

Amsterdam, 23rd June 2020 – In a strong critique of the EU’s stakeholder consultation about potential major revisions to its climate policy, Global Forest Coalition, representing more than 100 NGOs…

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Forest loss for large-scale agriculture and extractive industries goes hand in hand with violence against women

5 Jun, 2020

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…

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Time to turn the tide on industrial animal farming: path towards post-pandemic sustainable food systems

28 May, 2020

by Global Forest Coalition and GRAIN  One important lesson that we can draw from the COVID-19 pandemic that impacted almost every country in the world is that agro-industrial livestock production…

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Our Nature is Not Your Solution – and FAO’s Plantations are even less of a Solution!

22 May, 2020

By Ruth Nyambura, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Kenya On the 22nd of May each year the world celebrates the International Day of Biological Diversity and this year’s celebrations are significant…

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Indigenous Sami under threat from logging in Sweden

22 Apr, 2020

by Kristina Bäck, Protect the Forest, Sweden Sweden’s state-owned forestry company Sveaskog have announced that they will sell another 10,400 hectares of forest, more than 2,000 hectares of which are…

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Environmental groups condemn Estonia’s rejection of ‘climate and biodiversity centered’ forestry impact assessment

8 Apr, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8 APRIL 2020 The Global Forest Coalition, a coalition of more than 100 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations from 65 different countries, along with 27 additional groups,…

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250 organisations demand red lines for aviation bailouts

6 Apr, 2020

#SavePeopleNotPlanes: Open letter demands that workers and the climate are put first 6th of April 2020 – Today, more than 250 organisations from 25 countries published an open letter directed…

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Anna Kirilenko appointed as new chairperson of the Global Forest Coalition

25 Mar, 2020

The Global Forest Coalition is happy to welcome Anna Kirilenko as its new chairperson. Anna has served as GFC’s board member for North and Central Asia and Eastern Europe for…

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32 organisations worldwide call on BlackRock to drop Drax

23 Mar, 2020

Originally published by Biofuelwatch A coalition of 32 environmental organisations worldwide has sent a letter to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, asking it to divest from Drax Plc, owner…

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Why the Green Climate Fund must reject Arbaro’s plantations

5 Mar, 2020

co-authored by the Global Forest Coalition and our member groups HEÑÓI (Paraguay), Iniciativa Amotocodie (Paraguay), Sobrevivencia/Friends of the Earth (Paraguay), The Development Institute (Ghana), The National Association of Professional Environmentalists…

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Sweden’s forest crimes: “Today’s forestry threatens forests and the climate”

27 Feb, 2020

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

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70 organizations and 30 scientists call on politicians and authorities: Stop the logging of high conservation value forests in Sweden

18 Feb, 2020

Original press release by GFC member group Protect the Forest: Today, 70 organizations from 25 countries and 30 scientists send an open letter to Swedish Ministers, Members of the Swedish…

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Remembering Ghanimat Azhdari

10 Jan, 2020

The Global Forest Coalition wishes to express our deep sorrow over the death of Ghanimat Azhdari, a dear friend and wonderful colleague, who was one of the many victims of…

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Market mechanisms and money: an overview of what’s at stake at COP25 in Madrid

6 Dec, 2019

The re-located COP25 in Madrid comes at a critical juncture of the climate negotiations on two main issues: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which deals with market-based approaches to…

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