Real Solutions, Not False Promises: A Joint Call to Action

21 Oct 2024

A Joint Call to Action for Rejecting Market-Based Approaches and Advancing a Gender Just and Rights-Based Approach to Biodiversity Protection at CBD COP 16

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NGOs in global action against large-scale biomass energy

21 Oct 2024

On the 21st of October 2024 environmental and civil society groups from around the world will take a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy. The international day…

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Biodiversity Offsets: A Flawed Conservation Solution – New Analysis Debunks “No Net Loss” and Calls for Urgent Action

10 Oct 2024

Biodiversity offsets are a dangerous illusion—allowing corporations to profit while ecosystems are destroyed and communities pay the price, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) warned today. Instead of supporting this failed…

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Civil Society Organizations Worldwide Warn Against Biodiversity Offsets and Credits

2 Oct 2024

Over 270 civil society organizations and academics from around the world have voiced strong opposition to the use of biodiversity offsets and credits, warning that such mechanisms will fail to…

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Advancing Gender Equity in Biodiversity: Insights from the GLA Gender Hub

24 Sep 2024

In June 2024, the Green Livelihood Alliance’s (GLA) Gender Hub hosted another Inclusive Forest Community of Practice (InFoCP) session, focusing on preparations for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP16…

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Quito Declaration: Tackling Industrial Animal Production

10 Sep 2024

We present this declaration, arising from the “Meeting of Possible Horizons in the Face of Extractivism of Industrial Animal Production,” held in Ecuador, August 21-23, 2024. In response, the organisations…

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A River’s Rights: Indigenous Kukama Women Lead the Way with Landmark Legal Victory

4 Sep 2024

Here’s one of the most powerful pieces of good news you probably missed this year: a group of Indigenous women in Peru succeeded in asserting the legal right to integrity…

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Are Global Climate Talks Delivering for the World’s Forests?

27 Aug 2024

Are Global Climate Talks Delivering for the World’s Forests? A political overview of SB 60 from a forests’ perspective   Download the English version of the briefer here   Meetings…

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Who Really Benefits? How REDD+ Fails Forests and Those Who Protect Them – A new Briefing from GFC

29 Jul 2024

In this new briefing, launched at the UN Climate Change Conference (SB60) in Bonn, we unravel the confusions, contradictions and inherent issues with the REDD+ program.

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