The Great REDD+ Climate Illusion: A flawed equation for forests, people, and planet A new briefer from the Global Forest Coalition GFC’s latest research critically examines the REDD+ program, showing that it has little to do with reducing deforestation while facilitating land grabbing, logging and monoculture plantations and causing rights…
The Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA) condemns today’s decision by the CMA, the UN body that takes decisions, to approve rules for the new Article 6.4 carbon market…
Press release: Latin American organizations call for urgent systemic change at COP16 biodiversity summit Activists denounce lack of ambition, false solutions and corporate capture in biodiversity negotiations. Cali, Colombia, October…
Global Forest Coalition at CBD COP16 Real Solutions, Not False Promises From 21 October to 1 November 2024, GFC is participating in the 16th meeting of the Conference…
Cali, Colombia, 29 October 2024 “As long as governments are in cahoots with corporations to destroy nature, there cannot be ‘Peace with Nature.’” Souparna Lahiri of the Global Forest Coalition…
To halt global biodiversity loss in an equitable and gender-responsive manner, countries must stop subsidizing export-oriented economic sectors. By Souparna Lahiri and Valentina Figuera Martínez Common Dreams, 24 October 2024…
Published in Truthout Will COP16 on Biodiversity Listen to Indigenous Women or Corporate Lobbyists? Indigenous women have long been at the forefront of the global movement for land and territorial…
Tourism’s Impact on Communities: Integrating Biocultural Protocols in Tourism and Biodiversity Policies An advocacy strategy for the Maasai Indigenous Community in East Africa DOWNLOAD NOW: Tourism’s Impact on Communities…
23 October 2024 — Members and leaders from the Global Forest Coalition held a press conference today at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) highlighting the need for countries to focus…
