Defending Rights

New Video Reveals Global Resistance to Forest-Carbon Projects: A Darker Shade of Green Documents Critical Perspectives on REDD

24 janv., 2012

  Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests. The twenty-eight minute video, launched today, documents opposition around the globe to controversial programs that claim to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) by putting forests into the carbon market.

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AND THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS REDD FAIRY TALE IS…. “REDD will support Indigenous Peoples”

8 déc., 2011

Durban, South Africa – Global Forest Coalition has published a series of “Grimm REDD Fairy Tales” to assist delegates in distinguishing truth from fiction regarding the controversial program of Reducing…

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Indigenous Peoples and Allies Call for a Moratorium on REDD+

6 déc., 2011

Indigenous Peoples participating in the UNFCCC negotiations have called for a moratorium on REDD+ today. In a statement released to the press, the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local…

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Indigenous and Community-led Forest Initiatives Offer Solutions to Today’s Problems Local Communities Need Rights and Respect, Not REDD

2 déc., 2011

Durban, South Africa – Studies show that the best guardians of forest lands are the people who live there. Indigenous Peoples and other Forest-dependent peoples agree. Yet, all over the…

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Indigenous Leaders Alert the UNFCCC and the World to the Imminent Threat that REDD Poses to their Territories and Livelihoods

1 déc., 2011

  Durban, South Africa (IPCCA). As the UNFCCC COP 17 opens in Durban, South Africa, a gathering of indigenous leaders from around the world discussing biocultural protocols and REDD warns…

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Forest Campaigners Denounce REDD as a Grimm Fairy Tale; Indigenous Communities Declare Safeguards Will Not Work

29 nov., 2011

Durban, South Africa – At the inauguration of United Nations COP17, Global Forest Coalition has published a series of “Grimm REDD Fairy Tales” [1] to assist delegates in distinguishing truth from…

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BEWARE THE GRIMM REDD FAIRY TALES!!!

28 nov., 2011

The Global Forest Coalition has produced a series of REDD Fairy Tales.   Introducing: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – REDD+ is a Poisoned Apple  Ananse – REDD’s Sticky Web…

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39th issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

14 nov., 2011

We present the most recent version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.39. This issue includes an outlook for the upcoming 17th Conference of the Parties of…

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The Global Forest Coalition supports the Free West Papua Campaign

14 oct., 2011

West Papua needs your help! The forgotten land of West Papua is under brutal Indonesian military occupation. Its tribal people are being slaughtered, and their unique environment destroyed. But the world…

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Cyberaction: Sandra missing for 6 months and still in our hearts

30 août, 2011

  With 6 months having past since the disappearance of Sandra Viviana Cuellar and no news of her whereabouts,we want to promote an on-line action in which during a month…

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38th Issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

19 août, 2011

We present the most recent version of the Global Forest Coalition’s Newsletter: Forest Cover no.38. The editorial of this issue of Forest Cover deals with the road to Rio+20 and…

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Global Forest Coalition to United Nations: Nature at Whose Service?

5 juin, 2011

On the eve of the next round of United Nations climate talks, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), a worldwide network of more than 50 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations, has…

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Fracturing solidarity: The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement in context

20 avr., 2011

Note: The Indigenous Environmental Network’s Clayton Thomas-Muller is quoted in the article. Clayton is on the board of Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP is the North America Focal Point of…

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37th Issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

1 avr., 2011

Latest version of the Global Forest Coalition Newsletter. Since the term ‘Green Economy’ seems to become increasingly popular, this edition includes an editorial on the ugly shade of the green economy,…

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Response to the UNFCCC Call for Views for Forests in Exhaustion

1 avr., 2011

Joint declaration supported by 64 national and international NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations calling for excluding monoculture tree plantations from financial support to forest and climate change-related programs. It is…

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Forest and Indigenous Groups Reject Cancún Forest Deal

29 nov., 2010

Joint Press Release from Global Forest Coalition and Indigenous Environmental Network 26 November, 2010                                    REDD Will Violate Rights, Accelerate Emissions, Groups Warn Cancún, Mexico – Indigenous and environmental rights groups…

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Cop10hagen and the Redd-Green Economy

9 nov., 2010

So will Nagoya become the CBD’s Copenhagen? Are we heading for another COP-flop? article by Simone Lovera, in CBD Alliance Newsletter of 25 October 2010 This important question formed the…

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