We’re Back in Bonn: GFC Activities and Events at UNFCCC SB62

We’re Back in Bonn: GFC Activities and Events at UNFCCC SB62

As the global climate negotiations continue to steer the world headlong towards climate catastrophe, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) and our allies are pushing back against false solutions such as carbon markets, bioenergy and geoengineering, and advocating for real, rights-based and gender-just approaches to solving the climate crisis. We are involved in several key events and activities during SB62, and invite all participants to join us in these important discussions.

Side Events and In-Session Workshops

Exposing False Solutions as Barriers to Real Solutions

• Date: Friday, June 20, 2025
• Time: 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
• Location: Kaminzimmer Room
• Overview: This event lays bare how false solutions to climate change receive support from state and corporate actors, creating barriers to gender-just and rights-based solutions. We will advocate for the removal of these barriers and strengthening real solutions to the climate crisis.

Halting the Engineering of Our Planet

• Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
• Time: 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
• Location: Kaminzimmer Room
• Overview: This session by the HOME Alliance addresses the threats posed by geoengineering, particularly in Africa, and emphasises the need for precaution against these misleading so-called climate solutions. Speakers include Coraina de la Plaza, Kwami Kpondzo, Mfoniso Antia, and Dean Behbeh.

Press Conferences

Beware of a Bioeconomy Gateway to Big Biomass Energy at COP 30

• Date: June 20, 2025
• Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
• Location: Nairobi 4 (also available via live webcast)

Overview: As COP 30 is branded as a bioeconomy conference, join the Biomass Action Network in discussing the dangers of promoting forest biomass burning for industrial energy and advocating for better alternatives that do not harm climate, nature, and communities.

Geoengineering Africa: A Dangerous Distraction

• Date: June 24, 2025
• Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CEST/UTC+2
• Location: Nairobi 4, Main Building (also available via live webcast)
• Overview: GFC and HOME Alliance members will highlight the threats of geoengineering in Africa and the fights across other continents, territories, and communities. We’ll also share what to expect at upcoming UN negotiations, including COP30.

We look forward to engaging with all stakeholders at UNFCCC Bonn SB62 and hope to see you at our events! Together, we can advocate for effective and just climate solutions.

18 Jun, 2025
Posted in Forests and Climate Change, UNFCCC