On the World Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations, a coalition of environmental groups and Indigenous peoples organizations has launched a call to the international donor community to halt the diversion of forest conservation funding to dubious schemes to “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks” (REDD+), which are being promoted within the framework of the United Nations Climate Convention (click on link to read more).
BELÉM (November 13, 2025) — As COP30 and the Peoples Summit (Cúpula dos Povos) opens in Belém, Brazil, this week, Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance, a global network of Indigenous Peoples, human rights, grassroots, climate justice and feminist groups has...
[portugues abajxo] As COP30 convenes in Brazil, governments and corporations are spotlighting biomass as a key part of the “green transition,” promoting it under national decarbonisation and bioeconomy agendas. The Belem X4 pledge, for example, aims to quadruple...
Forests are complex living ecosystems—homes, sources of livelihoods, and foundations of life. Yet across the world, they are devastated by extractive industries, agribusiness, and corporate greenwashing disguised as “climate solutions.” Who suffers most? The South,...