Welcome to the forty-nineth edition of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) In this edition we look at meat as a driver of deforestation, including the way in which livestock production leads to forest destruction, and how peasant farming can help to resolve the climate crisis. We…
Campaigners say: False solutions to climate change do not cut emissions but damage land and livelihoods in other countries 10th February 2016 – 115 civil society organisations and networks from…
7th December: The Global Forest Coalition [1] has launched a new report at the Paris climate talks today titled “Biomyths, the Costly Carbon Scam of Bioenergy”. [2] The report exposes how large-scale bioenergy…
15 Nov 2015: The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] launched a new briefing paper [2] today, providing a critical overview of the problem of current carbon accounting rules in the…
Community conservation: Indigenous peoples and local communities have shown that we understand much better the ways of sustainable living and conservation of nature than any technocrats and government authorities
16 October: On the occasion of World Food Day [1] a coalition of environmental and indigenous groups [2] denounces undue corporate influence over the UN Committee on World Food Security…
By: Mary Louise Malig* Like reading the ancient Greek tragedy of Homer, we are at the pages of the Iliad where we can see what hell ahead shall befall Troy.…
25 September 2015: The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] congratulated the UN on the target to halt deforestation by 2020 [2] in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be adopted…
By Souparna Lahiri* During the Global Forest Coalition (GFC)’s Fostering Community Conservation Conference in Durban, South Africa (31 August-4 September, 2015), just days before the World Forestry Congress (WFC) (7-11 September,…
