Transformative change with environmental and gender justice demands real solutions on climate, not schemes like “Nature-Based Solutions”

23 May 2023

Photo credit: Fernando Franceschelli We regularly contribute to United Nations processes on issues like forests, biodiversity, climate change and gender in order to bring the priorities and perspectives of our member groups to international policy-making spaces. This month, the United Nations Environment Programme gathered comments on Nature-based Solutions, a notion…

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Video: Call on the World Bank to #StopFinancingFactoryFarming

12 May 2023

May 2023   Created by Stop Financing Factory Farming, a diverse global coalition working to shift public development finance away from industrial animal agriculture, to sustainable and equitable food production…

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A New Chapter in GFC’s Story: Welcoming Our New Policy Director

24 Apr 2023

  April 2023 Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members, allies, friends, colleagues, and supporters, we write to you today with exciting news, welcoming the coalition’s new policy director, Wolfgang Kuhlmann. Wolfgang,…

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Call for the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of largest voluntary carbon offset certifier

23 Mar 2023

80 NGOs ask the EU to reject carbon offsets following scandal of the largest voluntary carbon offset certifier Joint letter, 22 March 2023 In November 2022, the European Commission presented…

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‘Forests represent health’: An interview with Fundaexpresión on the International Day of Forests

21 Mar 2023

Photo: Biodiversity monitoring workshop with children in the Selva Alto Andina in Suratá, Santander, Colombia On the International Day of Forests, the Global Forest Coalition salutes the work of our…

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UN Member States: Reject False Climate Solutions, Direct Policy and Funding to Immediate Carbon Emissions Reductions and Real Solutions

20 Mar 2023

UN Member States: Reject False Climate Solutions, Direct Policy and Funding to Immediate Carbon Emissions Reductions and Real Solutions IPCC report clearly shows there is no room for carbon offsets…

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International Women’s Day: An Occasion to Recall that the Fight Continues

8 Mar 2023

Let’s wake up! Let’s wake up, humankind! We’re out of time. We must shake our conscience free from the rapacious capitalism, racism and patriarchy that will only assure our own…

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Press release from Don’t Geoengineer Africa: A Warning Call from African Civil Society Organizations

17 Feb 2023

Source: handsoffmotherearth.org 15 February, 2023–Civil Society Organizations that advocate for climate and environmental justice are calling on the African Union to not Geoengineer Africa ahead of the African Union Heads…

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Letter from ‘Kick Big Polluters Out’ on COP28 Presidency

28 Jan 2023

To:  António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General  Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Parties to the UNFCCC— On January 11, news broke that Sultan…

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