Skip to content
or
banner image

2Media

Frustrating Times in the Fight against Biofuel Burning and Deforestation

11 févr., 2014

By Missi Davis for the Global Forest Coalition Forests cover nearly a third of the land on Earth, producing oxygen supporting a vast diversity of wildlife. Deforestation is responsible for around 15% of carbon emissions. Despite this, the planet loses 46-58 million square miles of forest every year. The global fight against deforestation continues to struggle against the rampant violation of the world’s forests. The fight against biofuel pollution has suffered a number of setbacks recently, unfortunately, and recent events expose how …

Lire la suite ›

A Pathetic REDD Package

4 déc., 2013

On 12 November 2013, the Global Forest Coalition made the following intervention during the negotiations in Warsaw on methodologies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhance forest…

Lire la suite ›

The ENIGMA that is WORLD TOURISM

29 oct., 2013

On 27th September, “WORLD TOURISM DAY” the CBD Secretariat issued a statement by the Executive Secretary, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, which began as follows: “In spite of lingering economic…

Lire la suite ›