Civil society concern over the Hague conference on agriculture and climate change
Civil Society Statement of Concern on the Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (October 31 – November 5):
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Biodiversity in suspense
By our executive director, Simone Lovera Halfway the second week, everybody is holding its breath here at the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties: Will the 10th Conference of the Parties…
Cop10hagen and the Redd-Green Economy
So will Nagoya become the CBD’s Copenhagen? Are we heading for another COP-flop? article by Simone Lovera, in CBD Alliance Newsletter of 25 October 2010 This important question formed the…
Organizations protest market-based conservation at CBD COP10
On Tuesday 19 October, the second day of the Biodiversity Conference in Nagoya, Japan, organizations, including the Global Forest Coalition, protested against market-based conservation. A short report from our Executive…
EU bio-energy targets cause biodiversity loss
Nagoya, Japan, 18 October 2010 -Environmental and social justice groups warn that incentives for wood-based bio-energy will trigger dramatic biodiversity loss, as forests and grasslands are converted to monocultures. The…
Tianjin letter to governments
The fourteenth session of the AWG-KP and the twelfth session of the AWG-LCA are taking place this week in Tianjin, China. During the last Climate Talks in Bonn in August…
21 September – International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations
September 21 is International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations. On this day, environmental and social groups around the world call attention to the harmful effects of tree monocultures on biodiversity…
Shell bankrolls REDD
Indigenous Environmental Network and Friends of the Earth Nigeria Denounce Shell REDD Project September 7, 2010 – Oil giant Shell, infamous for the genocide of the Ogoni People and environmental…
Thousand solutions to climate change!
The people create thousands of solutions to confront climate change! Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice! La Via Campesina calls on social movements and all people to mobilize around the…
Nature Communications article shows ‘true colours’ of biochar advocates
Groups condemn implied land-grab for biochar
EU Green Paper on forests and climate change: missed opportunity
In March 2010, the European Commission launched an EU-wide consultation to find out whether the EU should increase its efforts to protect forests under a changing climate.
LULUCF briefing: No offsets, no false accounting
Briefing paper on Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF), prepared by GFC’s European focal point Almuth Ernsting from Biofuelwatch and Helena Paul from Econexus.
Close loopholes, do not expand CDM
Statement to the pre-sessional workshop on “Forest Management Accounting” Bonn, 30 July 2010
Open Letter: Growing Opposition to Round Table on Responsible Soy
The undersigned organisations reject the “responsible” label for soy developed by the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS).
New Report Reveals Major New Threats to Forests and Communities from European Bioenergy Policies
PRESS RELEASE Forest groups urge European governments to stop support for industrial bioenergy
Global Forest Coalition and Partners Demand Inclusion of Cochabamba Outcomes in UN Climate Process
On behalf of Global Forest Coaolition and other members of Climate Justice Now!, Camila Moreno gave an intervention to the the Long-Term Cooperative Action Working Group at the UN Climate…
Briefing paper: Wood-based bio-energy: the green lie
As forests campaigners, activists and Indigenous Peoples Organisation make a tour through Europe to inform policymakers about the dangers of wood-based bioenergy, the Global Forest Coalition presents a briefing paper…
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