Supporting Community Conservation

Press Release: People’s Biodiversity Festival: ‘Unity for Diversity’

13 oct., 2012

Oct 13 to 16, 11 am to 7.30 pm, Exhibition Grounds, Nampalli The People’s Biodiversity Festival, ‘Unity for Diversity’, is a collaborative endeavor of a large number of groups, including farmers’ groups, NGOs and people’s movements from all over India. It is a festive and defiant celebration of our rich biodiversity of crops, flora, fauna; and our vibrant bio-cultural heritage. Open to all, the Festival is radically different from the CBD-COP, and has already aroused expectant excitement. The Convention on …

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About Forests, Budgets and the CBD Underdog Mentality

12 oct., 2012

COP11 might become the conference that declared the CBD more or less irrelevant for the estimated 80% of terrestrial biodiversity that is represented by forest ecosystems. Forests already received a…

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Appeal to CBD Alliance for writing to the Prime Minister of India on violation of forest and community rights

12 oct., 2012

To the friends from International NGOs, community groups and social movements at the CBD alliance. As you are by now aware that the Indian Parliament has enacted the Scheduled Tribes…

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An Appeal on behalf of Civil Society regarding the proposed golf tournament of COP Delegates at the Hyderabad golf course

11 oct., 2012

(cross-posted from ECO* no.3) Dear Delegates to CBD COP11, We welcome you to our city and look forward to a conference of sharing of information, knowledge and creating new channels…

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GFC’s intervention during REDD+ discussion at CBD’s COP11

10 oct., 2012

GFC: Thank you Madam chairperson for allowing me this opportunity to speak. We share concerns that REDD+ might not necessarily contribute to biodiversity and that the discussion should focus on…

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Women’s Caucus Opening Statement at the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

9 oct., 2012

My Name is Archana Godbole of AERF India Speaking on behalf of the women’s caucus We welcome the new CBD Executive secretary and we look forward to working together to…

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CBD-COP 11: Civil Society Opening Statement

9 oct., 2012

Español debajo Opening statement as the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity starts in Hyderabad, India. Madame Chair, distinguished delegates and observers: The CBD Alliance warmly…

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Biodiversity and Livelihoods under Attack from Industrial Bio-economy Strategy

25 sept., 2012

  The EU is rapidly developing a new type of ‘post-fossil fuel’ economy, dubbed the ‘bio-economy’ (as described in the report “Bio-economies: the EU’s real ‘Green Economy’ agenda? 1), and…

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Tiger Reserves: The Realities Behind a Controversy

4 sept., 2012

Statement from the Campaign for Dignity and Survival ——- These reserves are not managed in any rational, accountable or even legal way. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gave the Environment…

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Going beyond Price and Seeking the Multiple Values of Biodiversity

9 mai, 2012

Many still believe that huge financial “investments” are needed for the “conservation” of biological resources, as shown with the subsidies that international institutions like the World Bank provide for this…

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Media Release: The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns

26 avr., 2012

Obama’s Plan Bodes Ill for Human Rights and the Environment, New Report Finds As U.S. President Obama announced his new “National Bioeconomy Blueprint” today, the Global Forest Coalition [1] unveiled…

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UN Intersessional Report: How will the Green Economy affect women?

9 avr., 2012

(cross-posted) Keith Brunner from Gears of Change Youth Media Project reports back from the side event “Women’s critical perspectives on the ‘green economy” carried out during the  UN Rio+20 intercessional (March25-27) at…

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Civil Society Views in Scaling up Biodiversity Finance, Resource Mobilization, and Innovative Financial Mechanisms

3 avr., 2012

GFC’s submission to the UNFCCC call for Parties and accredited organizations on modalities and procedures for financing results based-actions and activities related to decision 1/CP.16, paragraphs 68-70 and 72. This…

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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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Biodiversity in suspense

9 nov., 2010

By our executive director, Simone Lovera Halfway the second week, everybody is holding its breath here at the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties: Will the 10th Conference of the Parties…

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Organizations protest market-based conservation at CBD COP10

9 nov., 2010

On Tuesday 19 October, the second day of the Biodiversity Conference in Nagoya, Japan, organizations, including the Global Forest Coalition, protested against market-based conservation. A short report from our Executive…

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