Resources and publications

A gendered perspective on the proposed EU Regulation on deforestation-free products

17 Oct, 2022

The Global Forest Coalition is pleased to bring you a new report, to continue the important messaging around the International Day of Rural Women: A Gendered Perspective on the Proposed EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products. In a landmark attempt to curb deforestation, the European Commission and Parliament are considering a draft regulation that seeks to stop products that have caused forest degradation or deforestation from entering the EU market. It’s a complicated measure, and one that has been cheered by …

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New Report: The State of Industrial Livestock in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and Livelihoods

29 Sep, 2022

Report: The State of Industrial Livestock Farming in Asia and its Impacts on Deforestation and People’s Livelihoods Agriculture is by far the biggest driver of deforestation, according to the UN…

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

30 Aug, 2022

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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GFC Annual Report 2021

15 Jul, 2022

We are pleased to share with you a summary of the Global Forest Coalition’s work in 2021. This report describes the key moments and achievements of GFC’s campaigns on climate…

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Stolen land and fading forests in Chile: New report on conflict plantations

11 Jul, 2022

A new report from the Environmental Paper Network, GFC and Colectivo VientoSur reveals another case of “Conflict Plantations,” this time in Chile. Read in English / leer en español Chile’s…

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The Big Con of “All Sources” of Finance

6 Jul, 2022

By Simone Lovera The parties to the Convention on Biodiversity gathered in Nairobi, Kenya from 21 to 26 June for another meeting to negotiate a second Strategic Plan for the…

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Who Makes Decisions at the CBD? The Increasing Power of Business in Biodiversity Protection

24 Jun, 2022

By Philip Seufert, FIAN International (This article is based on discussions during a virtual CSO webinar hosted by FIAN International in May 2022) The next few months will show if…

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Aviation Biofuels: Mega-Refinery Threatens Local Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Paraguay, New Case Study shows

29 Mar, 2022

Omega Green agrofuel (biofuel) refinery in Paraguay is one of largest agrofuel refineries in the world and the first one in South America Low demand for aviation agrofuels in Paraguay…

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Ngodwana Biomass Energy Project: Can wood sourced from industrial timber plantations ever be sustainable?

21 Mar, 2022

Increasingly around the world pulp and paper mills are installing over-sized, dedicated biomass boilers alongside more traditional cogeneration units to take advantage of strong support and incentives for producing electricity…

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“Net Gain” is a lose-lose for rights, gender justice and social equity in biodiversity policy

1 Mar, 2022

The concepts of “Net Gain” and “No Net Loss” have become popular in biodiversity conservation circles and are embraced in the first draft of a new global biodiversity framework released…

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

22 Dec, 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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International Civil Aviation Day: Carbon offsets for aviation are a false climate solution

6 Dec, 2021

Today is International Civil Aviation Day and we’re launching a second case study on the false solutions that the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) is basing its climate strategy on.…

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

2 Nov, 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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Arauco’s Valdivia biomass power station: carbon emissions and conflicts with Indigenous communities in Chile

20 Oct, 2021

This case study, produced by Colectivo VientoSur, the Global Forest Coalition and the Environmental Paper Network, assesses the impacts of the Valdivia biomass power plant in the Los Rios region…

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The Net Zero Files: How greenwash is being used to reduce climate ambition

6 Oct, 2021

CLARA LAUNCHES THE NET ZERO FILES Earth is finite, nature is finite, and the carbon-holding capacity of nature is finite. The Net Zero Files, 18 concise briefings which call out…

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These are not forests: The Arbaro Fund and monoculture tree plantations in Paraguay

29 Sep, 2021

With the financial support of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Arbaro Fund is looking to invest in 75,000 ha of monoculture tree plantations across seven target countries as a…

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AFR100: Driving commercial tree plantation expansion in Africa?

21 Sep, 2021

Pledges made towards the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) could result in nearly doubling the scale of commercial tree plantations across the continent. Download the briefing (2.1MB) AFR100 is…

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