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The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender Transformative Solutions to Climate Change

November 2022

False solutions to climate change are being increasingly called out and rejected by communities around the world. Real solutions that are rights-based and gender-transformative do exist, and they are the only way to prevent catastrophic global temperature rise. Policy-makers on forests and climate change must take these real solutions into account. Find out more in the latest issue of Forest Cover. Forest Cover 68 provides context on the difficult journey to achieving climate justice and the context in which GFC …

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Whose Land, Whose Forests? The Gendered Impacts and Colonial Roots of Extractive Industries

August 2022

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This issue of Forest Cover, Whose Land, Whose Forests? describes the harm that extractivist projects like mining and monoculture tree plantations are doing in communities across Africa and Asia and…

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Gender justice and livestock farming: A feminist analysis of livestock and forest policy-making

December 2021

The Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, signed in November 2021 during COP26, pledged to end deforestation by 2030. This is a full ten years later than the…

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Gender justice and climate action: A feminist analysis of forest and climate policy-making

November 2021

As the global climate negotiations convene for the 26th time, this time in Glasgow, Scotland, we are reminded once more of the extent to which climate change is the largest,…

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Community-led versus mass tourism: What are the implications for forests and communities?

June 2021

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The tourism sector has been impacted more than most during the pandemic, with whole countries locked down and many people losing their jobs or having to work in more dangerous…

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Circular economy or vicious cycle? How corporate capture of policy-making and perverse incentives are driving deforestation

December 2020

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Forest Cover

The End of False Solutions: Moving Towards Rights-Based and Gender Transformative Solutions to Climate Change

Whose Land, Whose Forests? The Gendered Impacts and Colonial Roots of Extractive Industries

Gender justice and livestock farming: A feminist analysis of livestock and forest policy-making

Gender justice and climate action: A feminist analysis of forest and climate policy-making

Community-led versus mass tourism: What are the implications for forests and communities?

Circular economy or vicious cycle? How corporate capture of policy-making and perverse incentives are driving deforestation

The impacts of tree plantations on women & women-led resistance to monocultures

Forest Cover 61: #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution, International Day for Biological Diversity

Forest Cover 60: How is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) impacting women and forests?

Forest Cover 59: Bioenergy in West Africa – impacts on women and forests

Forest Cover 58: Large-scale cattle farming and its consequences for forests, agroecology and biodiversity

Forest Cover 57 – 1.5°C from a community perspective

Forest Cover 56 – Community conservation in Africa

Forest Cover 55 – The big four drivers of deforestation: beef, soy, wood and palm oil

Forest Cover 54 – Latin America’s Veins Remain Open

Forest Cover 53 – Leaving no one behind: Community rights and biodiversity conservation

Forest Cover 52 – The Burning Issue

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