Belém, Brazil - In a betrayal of Indigenous Peoples, climate justice movements and civil society, COP30 has been a profound failure. Instead of bold commitments to phase out fossil fuels and protect Indigenous Peoples, ecosystems and biodiversity, governments doubled...
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...
As COP30 opens in Belém, civil society experts and climate justice groups are raising alarms about geoengineering, which is a risky, deliberate, large-scale technological scheme to manipulate the Earth’s systems, with the aim to temporarily mask some of the effects of...
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...
Belém, Brazil | November 2025 The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) will participate in the civil society mobilisations around COP30 in Belém, Brazil, as well as the UN talks themselves, with a strong delegation, a series of key publications, and multiple events...
During the 27th meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 27), held in Panama City, from October 20-24, members of the CBD Alliance and other CBD constituencies made an action to protest against the proliferation of...
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Guest article by Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Oli Munnion, Global Forest Coalition Despite the evidence exposing the harms of monoculture plantations to communities, water resources, biodiversity and the climate, proponents of ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’ (CDR) continue...
At the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We believe that lasting change for forests, climate, and communities is only possible when movements and organisations join forces. That’s why we work closely with allies,...
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 carbon markets, bioenergy and geoengineering, and advocating for...
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 winds along the riverbanks — the tugai forests. These rare riparian woodlands...
Roots Newsletter December 2024 Dear friends, members, allies, and comrades, It has been 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...
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...
Leer en español / Lire en français The Global Forest Coalition at COP29 Baku, Azerbaijan November 11-22, 2024 At UNFCCC COP29 in Baku, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is urging immediate action to end the financing of false solutions to climate change,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday 11 November 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...
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...
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...
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 ›...