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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 the plane crash near Tehran on 8 January. Ghanimat was a proud member of the Qashqai tribe and worked for many years for our Iranian member group CENESTA. She had recently started an important PhD research project on the governance of Indigenous and community conserved territories and areas (ICCAs) at …

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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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Chile 2019: El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (The Right to Live in Peace)

3 Dec, 2019

by Eduardo Giesen (Colectivo VientoSur) and Ruth Nyambura (Global Forest Coalition) On the 18th of October, the largest protests witnessed since the end of the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto…

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Forest conservation must address violence against women

25 Nov, 2019

by Jeanette Sequeira, Juana Vera Delgado and Ruth Nyambura, Global Forest Coalition November 25th has been designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the…

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The World Social Forum between politics and NGOs

18 Oct, 2019

This paper by Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek has been published in the journal Globalizations, as part of the “Transformational Responses to Authoritarian Capitalism: Learning with the World Social Forum” series Abstract The…

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World Food Day and the fires next time: Mortgaging the future of the planet for meat and dairy

16 Oct, 2019

By Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition) and Mia MacDonald (Brighter Green) The fires in the Amazon forests that shocked the world have been quenched by seasonal rains and the emergency…

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Greta Thunberg and the UN Climate Summit should reject monoculture tree plantations as a false solution

21 Sep, 2019

by Gary Graham Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition We are heading towards a week of intense climate actions starting with the Global Climate Strike and followed by…

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Remembering Fany Avila

2 Sep, 2019

The Global Forest Coalition mourns the loss of our colleague Fany Avila, director of the Asociación Indígena Ambiental in Panama

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Crocodile tears will not help to put out the Amazon’s fires

24 Aug, 2019

by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Being proven correct does not always feel good. When the Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest climate fund, proposed last January to give a…

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Derail negotiations on market mechanisms: false solutions will not bring equity and climate justice

13 Jun, 2019

by Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition, India The outcome of COP24 in Katowice last December failed on many counts, despite the “victory leap“ of the Polish Secretary of State for…

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Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business

2 May, 2019

Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks The Environmental Paper Network [1], Global Forest Coalition [2] and Biofuelwatch [3] have today issued a briefing to investors…

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International groups team up with locals in opposition to Nuon Biomass Plant

12 Apr, 2019

12th April 2019 – The Global Forest Coalition [1], which brings together 99 NGOs and Indigenous People’s Organisations from 64 countries, and Dogwood Alliance [2], a conservation NGO working to…

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Claiming Civic Space Together: conference in Copenhagen brings groups together to defend the defenders

3 Apr, 2019

by Linde Berbers, Global Forest Coalition intern Citizens and civil society organisations representing rightsholders and stakeholders play an essential role in all societies. In order to ensure the participation of…

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Deforestation, a problem caused by government collusion

1 Apr, 2019

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…

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“Respect traditional knowledge and promote community-led conservation”, say West African groups on International Day of Forests

21 Mar, 2019

From 18 to 21 March 2019, 32 representatives of local community groups, women’s groups and NGOs gathered for a West African skillshare on gender-sensitive community-based forest conservation and restoration initiatives,…

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Remembering Peter deMarsh

13 Mar, 2019

Dear GFC friends, Yesterday we received the very sad news that our colleague Peter deMarsh, director of the International Forestry Family Association (IFFA), was one of the many people on…

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Defend India’s forests and forest peoples: Defend Forest Rights Act

22 Feb, 2019

Press Release by All India Forum of Forest Movements (AIFFM) On 13 February, the Supreme Court of India, hearing a decade-old petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Forest Rights…

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