Our Forests, Trees and Climate Change campaign opposes the corporate take-over of forest, biodiversity and climate policy-making at different governance levels, and focuses on the drivers of forest loss and land conversion to monoculture tree plantations that have arisen in the post-Paris Agreement climate mitigation context. This includes:
Climate mitigation approaches centred around afforestation and reforestation with tree plantations, forest carbon offsets and other market-based schemes;
Public subsidies and climate finance that are increasingly being directed towards commercial tree plantations and bioenergy generation with strong private sector involvement.
These three key areas of work tie together the vital struggles that our member groups are engaged in locally with national and international-level advocacy that we engage in with our allies as a coalition, particularly concerning the UNFCCC, international climate finance mechanisms, global campaigns against the expansion of industrial bioenergy and genetically engineered trees. We also campaign for gender justice as a key pillar of climate justice, and promote gender-responsive and community-led alternative solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.
More than 225 organizations and networks from around the world have signed a letter calling on the UNFCCC’s COP30 Presidency to stop inviting the world’s largest polluters to the climate negotiation table, as reported this morning in Climate Home News. The letter responds to the COP30 President Designate’s recent public communication framing the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Belém, Brazil as “the Defining Business Opportunity of Our Time” and calling on business leaders to join the upcoming climate talks in November.
Despite the evidence exposing the harms of monoculture plantations to communities, water resources, biodiversity and the climate, proponents of ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’ (CDR) continue to commercially and politically support the…
At the end of August 2025, the vibrant port city of Valparaíso, Chile, became a convergence point for climate justice movements and NGOs at the 4th Climate Justice Latam and…
The EBRD has withdrawn its planned €40 million equity investment in Rex Concepts SA (Burger King & Popeyes operator in Central & Eastern Europe). This win, driven by the Green REV Institute, Global Forest Coalition, S3F coalition,…
GFC among ten rights‑holders and civil society groups today challenged UNEP’s dismissal of our formal complaint over its role in the TNFD—widely labeled “the next frontier in corporate greenwashing.” We’re…
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…
Indigenous peoples, forest communities, and nature should be at the center of forest protection, not investors, groups say April 24, 2025–Tropical forest countries, movements, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and civil…
A new report on the proposed ‘Tropical Forest Forever Facility’ by the Global Forest Coalition and Fundación Solón English / Português / Español / Bahasa / Français This report offers an in-depth…
The IMO Should Listen to Outcry Over False “Green” Bioenergy Solution Bioenergy, including crop-based biofuel, is often portrayed as “low-carbon,” but it isn’t, and the global shipping authority must recognize…
Tugai Forests: Central Asia’s Hidden Oasis and the Fight for Their Survival In the heart of Central Asia, where arid deserts and rugged mountains dominate the landscape, a green thread…
A joint statement in favor of truly sustianabile EU energy policy The Global Forest Coalition is among the signatories of this joint statement, Beyond Bioenergy, which calls on the EU…
