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...
Analysis: 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...
In this episode of Roots of Resilience, we hear that not only is change possible, but it is already happening. Host Chithira Vijayakumar speaks with activists in Brazil and Uganda - Maureen Santos of the Federation of Organizations for Social and Educational...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
By Simone Lovera, published 29 December 2022 by Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung In German - Auf Deutsch lesen / In Russian - Читать на русском It was an awkward incident: right at the moment that the Chinese environment minister serving as chairman of the 15th Conference of...
17 November 2022, Sharm El Sheikh--Hundreds of climate activists, Indigenous representatives, human rights activists, environmental defenders, workers and feminist groups gathered today for the People’s Plenary at COP27. They signed a People’s Declaration for Climate...
The Global Forest Coalition is present in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27 (November 6-18, 2022). We have 11 spokespersons on the ground and will speak at 8 events, where we will advocate for real solutions to the climate crisis. Here are all the details on what...
Africa is crying, our forest, our life! Get up, stand up for a collective struggle against the expansion of extractivism By Kwami Kpondzo The time has come to free Africa from fossil fuels expansion and the burden of the climate crisis. Africa remains asphyxiated...
False solutions to climate change are being increasingly called out and rejected by communities around the world. Real solutions that are rights-based and gender-transformative do exist, and they are the only way to prevent catastrophic global temperature rise....
International Community Must End Greenwashing and Ensure Rights-Based, Gendered Response to Climate Crisis November 3, 2022, UTRECHT—The international community must reject false climate solutions including carbon offsetting and burning of forest biomass, and ensure a...
CLARA LAUNCHES THE NET ZERO FILES Earth is finite, nature is finite, and the carbon-holding capacity of nature is finite. The Net Zero Files, 18 concise briefings which call out bad Net Zero commitments and put the focus back on deep decarbonization, were launched...
Three big United Nations summits are coming up on food, biodiversity and the climate, and the private sector is poised to have a major influence at all of them, making 2021 a key year for the corporate takeover of multilateral processes. With civil society...
O novo relatório em nossa série Forest Cover analisa o ciclo de auto-reforço da captura corporativa de políticas e os incentivos perversos que prejudicam a biodiversidade. Inclui análises por grupos membros e aliados em nove países diferentes sobre incentivos para a...
Our new report in our Forest Cover series analyzes the self-reinforcing cycle of the corporate capture of government policy-making and perverse incentives that harm biodiversity. It includes analysis by member groups and close allies in nine different countries on...
May 22nd is the International Day for Biological Diversity and the theme chosen by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this year is “Our solutions are in nature”. This is a clear reference to increasingly popular nature-based solutions (NBS) as...