Global Forest Coalition
The Global Forest Coalition is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations that advocates for the conservation and restoration of forest ecosystems, through defending and promoting respect for the rights, territories, traditional knowledge and sustainable livelihoods of the Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women that co-exist with them.
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Tropical Forest Forever Facility Report Raises Deep Concerns About Market Approach to Forests
Indigenous peoples, forest communities, and nature must be at the heart of forest protection—not investors. The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) and Fundación Solón urged governments and civil society to reject the proposed Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), calling it a false solution that risks repeating past failures. Our new report warns that the mechanism—slated for launch at COP30 in Belém, Brazil—prioritizes profits over people, rights, and true ecological preservation.
House of Resistance for Women and Gender Diverse People
Plenary Session of Axis 6 of the People's Summit – Popular Feminisms Where: Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Sports Gymnasium, R. Augusto Corrêa, 01 - Guamá, Belém. Organized by: International Initiative of Women, Bodies, and Territories, Brazilian Women's Network...
The Tables Turn Against the TFFF
From Rio de Janeiro-2024 to Belém-2025 By Mary Louise Malig and Pablo Salon On November 16, 2024, the G20 Social Summit, which brought together more than 2,500 representatives of civil society organizations from 91 countries, issued a declaration of support for the...
At COP30 and Peoples Summit, Movements Declare Geoengineering Is An Illusion That Threatens Our Future
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...
Our Campaigns
Climate Justice & Forests
GFC opposes corporate influence over climate and forest policy and exposes false solutions that harm ecosystems and communities, especially women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples. We defend forests, support community stewardship, and promote rights-based, gender-just approaches to climate mitigation for a fairer, more resilient world.
Gender Justice & Forests
The campaign promotes decolonial, feminist approaches to forest conservation that centre the rights, knowledge, and leadership of women in all their diversity. By supporting inclusive, community-led forest governance and dismantling intersecting systems of oppression, we work to protect forests while reducing gender inequalities and strengthening women’s access to decision-making and resources.
Unsustainable Livestock
GFC’s Unsustainable Livestock Campaign works to challenge factory farming, end harmful incentives, and promote agroecology and plant-rich diets that protect forests, defend rights, and support gender justice.
ETI
Forests and communities are under threat from mining, fossil fuel extraction, mass tourism, and mega-infrastructure projects. GFC’s Extractive Industries, Tourism and Infrastructure Campaign fights to defend rights, protect livelihoods, and stop destructive industries in their tracks.
Climate Justice & Forests
GFC opposes corporate influence over climate and forest policy and exposes false solutions that harm ecosystems and communities, especially women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples. We defend forests, support community stewardship, and promote rights-based, gender-just approaches to climate mitigation for a fairer, more resilient world.
Gender Justice & Forests
The campaign promotes decolonial, feminist approaches to forest conservation that centre the rights, knowledge, and leadership of women in all their diversity. By supporting inclusive, community-led forest governance and dismantling intersecting systems of oppression, we work to protect forests while reducing gender inequalities and strengthening women’s access to decision-making and resources.
Unsustainable Livestock
GFC’s Unsustainable Livestock Campaign works to challenge factory farming, end harmful incentives, and promote agroecology and plant-rich diets that protect forests, defend rights, and support gender justice.
ETI
Forests and communities are under threat from mining, fossil fuel extraction, mass tourism, and mega-infrastructure projects. GFC’s Extractive Industries, Tourism and Infrastructure Campaign fights to defend rights, protect livelihoods, and stop destructive industries in their tracks.
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Decarbonisation or Dispossession? Industrial-Scale Biomass in Latin America and Its Impacts
[portugues abajxo] As COP30 convenes in Brazil,...
Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives: Struggles for Forests, Life, and Gender Justice in the Global South
Forests are complex living ecosystems—homes,...
Tropical Forest Fund Fails its First Test as Belém Climate Conference Begins
No More Green Capitalism, Say Indigenous and...
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