Orignially published in ECOonline September 2020. By Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition The United Nations Biodiversity Summit is taking place at a time when the Covid 19 Pandemic has resulted in close to 30 million people infected by the virus, with the death toll approaching a staggering million. The International…
by the GFC climate team Today is the start of the three-day Net Zero Festival, an online event featuring a whole range of dirty companies such as Shell, the seventh…
CBD Alliance Press Release: Organizations from around the world, the majority from the global South, have published a “Peoples’ response to the High-Level Summit on Biodiversity”, which raises critical points…
September 21st marks International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, a day to celebrate resistance against the establishment and expansion of harmful commercial monocultures. To commemorate the occasion and…
Today, a global coalition released a “liability roadmap”: a first-of-its-kind tool outlining how local to global decision makers, including government officials, can hold polluting industries liable for the climate damage…
New briefing explains the basics of REDD+ and why it’s so contentious It’s 15 years since the United Nations climate convention unveiled REDD (and then REDD+) as its much-hyped solution…
The Global Forest Coalition embraces the Mapuche men, women and children who are victims of the violence carried out at Wallampu by the Chilean state and para-state actors on the…
We celebrate International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples each August 9th, but the human cultures that have conserved biodiversity since time immemorial should be celebrated year-round. Indigenous Peoples and…
As fires rage once again in parts of Latin America, send a strong message to international development banks: stop fueling the climate crisis and new pandemics by investing in industrial…
