Results for “geoengineering”
Press Conference: HOME Alliance says ‘No’ to ‘Removals’ and Geoengineering
WHO: Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), ETC Group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) WHERE: COP27, Press Conference Room 2 Luxor WHEN: Thursday, 17th November at 16:30-17:00 GMT+2 (local Egypt time) CONTACT: Laura Dunn, ETC Group (in Canada): +1 514 607 9979 / Björn Ecklundt, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in Egypt): +49 160 91392672 / Cate Bonacini (in US): +1-510-520-9109 (WhatsApp/Signal) Sharm El Sheikh – The Hands Off Mother Earth …
Press Conference: HOME Alliance Says No to ‘Removals’ and Geoengineering in UNFCCC Article 6.4.
WHO: Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), ETC Group, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) WHERE: COP27, Press Conference Room 2 Luxor WHEN: Thursday, 17th November at 16:30-17:00 GMT+2 (local Egypt time) CONTACT: Laura Dunn, ETC Group (in Canada): +1 514 607 9979 / Björn Ecklundt, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in Egypt): +49 160 91392672 / Cate Bonacini (in US): +1-510-520-9109 (WhatsApp/Signal) Sharm El Sheikh – The Hands Off Mother Earth Alliance (HOME) is coming together …
Roots Newsletter December 2024
Check out the latest issue of Roots, the Global Forest Coalition newsletter that shares all the latest work and updates from the coalition. This issue looks back on a busy few months for us all, culminating in our collective efforts at major international policy events including CBD COP16 in Cali, Colombia in October, UNFCCC COP29 in Azerbaijan, and the G20 in Brazil in November.
Civil Society Vows to Unite Around a Common Climate Justice Agenda for Belem People’s Summit during COP30
Rejecting the “carbon violence” done to communities through forest offsets and financing that leads to “climate debt,” communities plan to champion real solutions on climate at COP30. Baku, 21 November 2024–In a press conference on Wednesday, nearing the end of the 29th UN Climate Summit (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Global Forest Coalition representatives offered a stark assessment of the lack of progress on tackling the drivers of climate change, suggesting that hope for the future lies in the social movements …
GFC at COP 29
At UNFCCC COP29 in Baku, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is urging immediate action to end the financing of false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading and offsetting, REDD+, monoculture plantations, bioenergy, and geoengineering.
CLARA condemns today’s decision to approve Article 6.4 rules at COP29 in Baku
The Climate Land Ambition and Rights Alliance (CLARA) condemns today’s decision by the CMA, the UN body that takes decisions, to approve rules for the new Article 6.4 carbon market mechanism, as the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention (COP29) opens in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Latin American organizations call for urgent systemic change at COP16 biodiversity summit
Press release: Latin American organizations call for urgent systemic change at COP16 biodiversity summit Activists denounce lack of ambition, false solutions and corporate capture in biodiversity negotiations. Cali, Colombia, October 31, 2024–Civil society leaders and activists at the COP16 Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia, expressed their deep concern over the lack of significant progress in the negotiations and the persistence of corporate interests that undermine biodiversity protection and climate action. Valentina Figuera of the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) decried corporate …
“Freeze false solutions” to biodiversity loss and respect rights and ecosystems to achieve real “peace with nature,” says Global Forest Coalition
Cali, Colombia, 29 October 2024 “As long as governments are in cahoots with corporations to destroy nature, there cannot be ‘Peace with Nature.’” Souparna Lahiri of the Global Forest Coalition offered this succinct assessment of the host country Colombia’s slogan for the 16th UN biodiversity conference, “Peace with Nature.” In Colombia and around the world, Lahiri said: Environmental defenders and Indigenous community leaders are being killed in the name of ‘Peace with Nature.’ And in the last couple of days, …
COP 16 Events
COP 16 Press Conferences and Side Events GFC Press Conferences What’s Really at Stake: Voices from the Ground on the Threat of False Solutions 23 Oct 2024 More › Revealing the Realities: Voices from the Ground on the Threat of False Solutions 29 Oct 2024 More › GFC Side Events Monday, 21 October COP16 Side Event: Biodiversity Offsets and Credits: examining risks and challenges Blue Zone, Malpelo – Contact Group 1 meeting room, Plaza One This side event …
Are Global Climate Talks Delivering for the World’s Forests?
Are Global Climate Talks Delivering for the World’s Forests? A political overview of SB 60 from a forests’ perspective Download the English version of the briefer here Meetings of the subsidiary bodies (SBs) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are held each year to continue the implementation of previous decisions and prepare the ground for future decisions to be adopted at the next Conference of the Parties (COPs). Although there is less attention to …
Delay, Distract and Deceive: BECCS Developments in South America, Africa and Asia
Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies are among the most problematic in carbon removal geoengineering. This two-part series analyses the status of BECCS in South America, Africa, and Asia and shows that BECCS is far from being the silver bullet to climate change that some actors portray it to be.
Roots of Resilience Episode 2: Struggle and Hope
In this episode of Roots of Resilience, we hear that not only is change possible, but it is already happening. We speak with activists in Brazil and Uganda on the resistance to false solutions such as carbon capture projects and the negative impacts they impose on communities, particularly women in all their diversities. As well as first-hand information on the destructive nature of these projects, we also hear inspiring stories from the ground on paths to resistance and an equitable, just, and sustainable future for all.
Webinar on Carbon Removals: Unravelling the Real Story
Please join us on Tuesday 18 July at 12 pm UTC for the latest in our webinar series exploring the threats posed by false climate solutions to our forests, biodiversity, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and especially women in all their diversities. Register now to be part of the event — don’t miss this opportunity! The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports paint a difficult path to 1.5°C and we are already seeing the …
Press Statement: Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions
Global North Must Immediately Divest From False Climate Solutions Corporate co-opting of global climate policy is leading us to a climate catastrophe BONN, June 6, 2023 – UN member states must immediately end the financing of false climate solutions and their support via subsidies and other incentives, and shift flows towards genuine, gender-just and rights-based solutions capable of tackling the root causes of the climate crisis, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) said today. Negotiators are gathering in Bonn, Germany from …
Campaign Briefing: Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions
Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions: A Roadmap Towards Gender-Just & Real Climate Justice Download the briefer here: A Brief on the Urgent Need to Divest Public Climate Finance from False Solutions This briefing paper outlines the need for an international campaign to halt the financing of false solutions to climate change by bilateral, multilateral and international development funds, including United Nations agencies. Climate finance must support real solutions to the climate crisis that recognise historical responsibility, …
Watch now: GFC’s Press Conference Calling for Urgent Divestment from False Solutions
As negotiators gather in Bonn, Germany for the Climate Change Conference (SB58) from June 5-15, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) and member organizations organised a press conference on how the corporate co-opting of global climate policy is leading to inequitable policy and finance flows to false solutions and how these are being pushed into the UNFCCC agenda. As the IPCC reports show, these approaches – such as geoengineering, monoculture tree plantations, bioenergy and other market-based approaches, including carbon offset schemes …
Press release from Don’t Geoengineer Africa: A Warning Call from African Civil Society Organizations
Source: handsoffmotherearth.org 15 February, 2023–Civil Society Organizations that advocate for climate and environmental justice are calling on the African Union to not Geoengineer Africa ahead of the African Union Heads of States Summit to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, citing that geoengineering is a techno-fix that can only provide an excuse for Africa and the Global North to continue relying on fossil-fuel based energy generation in light of the ongoing climate emergency. Advancing geoengineering technologies distracts countries from their …
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