As governments congregate once more for a climate COP, this time in Katowice, Poland, Forest Cover 57 looks critically at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s latest assessment report on 1.5°C of global warming. It analyses what such a target means from a community perspective and makes the case…
The national platforms and regional networks that make up the “Latin America is better without Free Trade Agreements” Platform was founded and launched this November 2018 after months of dialogues…
by Kwami D. Kpondzo, Campaigns Officer at Les Amis de la Terre Togo and Africa Regional Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition The world is suffering because biodiversity is…
18 Nov, Sharm El Sheikh: Incentives to produce and export meat and animal feedstocks like soy in major producer countries like Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina are a leading cause of…
How support for the livestock sector in the EU and Mercosur countries is subsidising forest destruction Aichi Target 3 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) states that subsidies and…
This brief provides a summary of the 2018 global report of the Community Conservation Resilience Initiative (CCRI) and sets out overarching recommendations for select draft decisions of the 14th Conference…
Civil society groups reject the impact of an exponential growth of the Bioeconomy In recent years, governments have given support to substitute fossil fuels with biomass for energy, in the…
Over 115 Organisations from 40 countries hold day of action to reject the “BioFuture Platform” (November 7, 2018) — An international coalition of more than 120 organisations from 40 countries…
Today, 132 civil society organisations from around the world sent an open letter to National Representations to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The letter comes just ahead of the…
