A flawed equation for forests, people, and planet A new briefer from the Global Forest Coalition GFC’s latest research critically examines the REDD+ program, showing that it has little to do with reducing deforestation while facilitating land grabbing, logging and...
The Dark Side of Technology: Coltan Mining in the DRC and its Human Rights and Environmental Impacts By Allie Constantine and Ismail Wolff Coltan, short for columbite-tantalite, is a crucial mineral in producing most modern technological devices such as...
Urgent action required to halt the gender, environmental and human rights impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative New GFC report exposes troubling consequences of China-backed infrastructure projects in Kenya, Indonesia, and Argentina (UTRECHT, 26 September...
Episode 1: GFC on the Frontlines In this opening episode of Roots of Resilience, host Chithira Vijayakumar speaks with three of GFC’s lead campaigners, Andrea Echeverri based in Colombia, Kwami Kpondzo based in Togo, and Souparna Lahiri based in India, on the work of...
GFC's Simone Lovera spoke with Inter-Press Service about the new Global Biodiversity Framework that came out of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal (COP15) on Monday, December 19. In conversation with journalist Emilio Godoy, Lovera welcomed some of what was...
By Allie Constantine (Global Forest Coalition) in ECO, Vol. 65 7 December 2022 China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), hailed as being a new strategy to connect the world with Asia through various forms of trade, suffers from a lack of transparency around some of its...
As the parties to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) meet in Montreal, we're looking at the need for real solutions to biodiversity loss and the big processes and factors that would seem to undermine the stated goals of the CBD. The Belt and Road Initiative is a...
This issue of Forest Cover, Whose Land, Whose Forests? describes the harm that extractivist projects like mining and monoculture tree plantations are doing in communities across Africa and Asia and makes the connections between colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy....