Forêts et Changement Climatique

STATEMENT: To confront the climate emergency we need to dismantle the WTO and the free trade regime

9 sept., 2013

Launched in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) completed the Bretton Woods trio with the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund in promoting neoliberalism and corporate globalization. The WTO was particularly special in its power to legally enforce and penalize countries, taking away the policy space of governments, and on several occasions, forcing them to change their national laws in order to implement global free trade rules. Not long after its launch however, new negotiations to deepen the rules …

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Palm Oil: No Thanks: We scrub away the palm oil lobby’s dirty greenwashing

3 sept., 2013

(cross-posted) Sep 2, 2013 Joint press release by Rainforest Rescue, Society for Threatened Peoples, Robin Wood, Urgewald and Watch Indonesia!  Berlin Activists from Rainforest Rescue, the Society for Threatened Peoples,…

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Western Victorian Koala Wipeout and its Relation to FSC Certification Schemes

26 août, 2013

On a recent communication our dear and worried friend the Koala bear, in light of the still on-going extensive deforestation rates in his home country, asks Wally Menne from Timberwatch…

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Expanding palm oil empires in the name of ‘green energy’ and “sustainable development’

13 août, 2013

Press release by Rights Action, Rainforest Rescue, Biofuelwatch* and Food First 6th August 2013 – International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin American Palm Oil Conference to…

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Global Forest Coalition’s Annual Report 2012

9 juil., 2013

The Global Forest Coalition proudly presents its 2012 annual report. You will find a complete summary of our activities during 2012, read about our victories, our shortcomings and a lot…

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43rd issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

1 juil., 2013

In this new issue of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: the editorial addresses the main happenings during the last United Nations Forum on Forests were market based approaches gained…

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Greenwash Our Way Into Oblivion – The Vacant Climate Plan

27 juin, 2013

by ANNE PETERMANN Yesterday, President Obama announced his new Climate Action Plan in a nationally televised speech. He described the emerging climate crisis and its impacts–both past, present and future,…

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New Report spells out Potential Negative Impacts of Bioeconomy and Markets in Environmental Services on Women

12 juin, 2013

Bonn/Bogota, 12 June 2013 A new report [1] by the Global Forest Coalition [2] was launched at a side event on equity in climate mitigation policies organized by GenderCC at…

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Genetically Engineered Trees and Glowing Synthetic Plants? No Thanks

30 mai, 2013

Genetically Engineered Trees and Glowing Synthetic Plants? No Thanks This week in Asheville, N.C., the IUFRO “Tree Biotechnology” conference will meet. And the attendees will be met: by protests. Public opinion is…

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Of biomass, ‘energy crops’, power stations and deforestation

24 mai, 2013

In May 2010, the Global Forest Coalition warned in its report “Wood-based Bioenergy: The Green Lie”: “The demand for industrial wood bio-energy is causing large areas, especially in the South,…

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Intervention by the Women’s Major Group on Land Degradation, Desertification and Drought at the UN OWG SDG meeting 23 May 2013

23 mai, 2013

We want gender to be mainstreamed in all sustainable development policies related to land management, but we do not want to be mainstreamed into a polluted stream. We call for…

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Industrial Livestock Production Key Threat to World’s Forests and Biodiversity

22 mai, 2013

New York/Asuncion, 22 May 2013 On the occasion of International Day for Biodiversity and the start of UN talks on a possible sustainable development goal (SDG) on agriculture [1], a…

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SEED DECLARATION, INDIA, 2012

14 mai, 2013

Foreword: Seed diversity and agrobiodiversity worldwide face the growing threat of market liberalisation, including the FTA between India and the EU that will only suit agribusinesses. To safeguard seed diversity and farmers’…

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US Public Overwhelmingly Rejects Genetically Engineered Trees

30 avr., 2013

Upcoming Protests Disrupt Tree Biotech Conference Plans   Asheville, NC – By a majority of almost 99.99% to .01%, the US public overwhelming rejected steps toward the legalization of genetically…

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JORNADAS DE REFLEXIÓN CUENCA RÍO MAGDALENA, COLOMBIA

29 avr., 2013

PANEL NACIONAL ITINERANTE SOBRE POLÍTICA MINERO ENERGÉTICA Sesiones sobre CUENCA RÍO MAGDALENA, INVERSIÓN EXTRANJERA Y ECONOMÍA GLOBAL La política minera y energética que han impulsado los últimos gobiernos en Colombia se…

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Major Groups: NGO, Women, Farmer’s, Workers and Trade Unions, and IPs, Youth and Children, (science and technology) at the Asia-Pacific Regional Implementation Meeting on Rio+20

25 avr., 2013

The following statement was made on behalf of the following major groups: NGO, Women, Farmer’s, Workers and Trade Unions, and IPs, Youth and Children on April 23rd, 2013. We thank…

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Groups Globally Oppose Plans to Burn Wood for Electricity Citing Impacts on Forests, Climate, Communities

24 avr., 2013

For Immediate Release   24 April 2013 London, England – In conjunction with an action in London today outside of the Drax power plant, organizations and networks from around the world…

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