Posted on October 15, 2020
Woman with the Organization of Rural Women Workers protests Monsanto’s GMO seeds during a march in Curitiba, Brazil. Photo: Petermann (2006) Note: For decades, rural women around the world have been on the front lines of the battles… Read More
Posted on September 17, 2020
Photo: Langelle Oliver Munnion is the Publications Coordinator and Plantations Campaigner for Global Forest Coalition. He is located in Portugal. Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Watch: Oliver Munnion On The International Day Against… Read More
Posted on September 3, 2020
Photo: Langelle New briefing explains the basics of REDD+ and why it’s so contentious From Global Forest Coalition It’s 15 years since the United Nations climate convention unveiled REDD (and then REDD+) as its much-hyped solution to carbon… Read More
Category: Featured, REDD, Social Media News Tags: deforestation, Forest degradation, Global Forest Coalition, REDD
Posted on May 22, 2020
Resisting Geoengineering and Other False Solutions on International Day for Biological Diversity Geoengineering Monitor 19 May 2020 Coraina de la Plaza, GFC, Spain May 22nd is International Day for Biological Diversity, and the theme chosen by the United… Read More
Posted on November 5, 2018
GLOBAL FOREST COALITION – Aichi Target 3 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) states that subsidies and incentives that are harmful to biodiversity must be phased out or reformed by 2020. With discussions on the elimination of… Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News Tags: agriculture, deforestation, forests, Global Forest Coalition
Posted on October 17, 2018
A photoessay about indigenous communities in the Chaco region of Paraguay, and their existence in a landscape under threat by agribusiness and international trade policies. By Fernando Franceschelli and Ines Franceschelli, Global Forest Coalition Oct. 16 was World… Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News Tags: agribusiness, chaco, Global Forest Coalition, paraguay
Posted on October 1, 2018
(Geneva, September 28, 2018) Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to… Read More
Posted on September 21, 2018
By the Global Forest Coalition On International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations we bring you this photo-essay showing the devastation caused by monoculture tree plantations in Brazil, and in contrast, community efforts to restore native forests and build… Read More
Posted on February 26, 2018
Via Global Forest Coalition Indigenous communities’ own conservation practices are vital to biodiversity conservation, said two new reports [1] launched by communities in Kenya [2] and Ghana [3]. These are part of a series of reports from… Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News Tags: africa, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ghana, Global Forest Coalition
Posted on December 19, 2017
15 Dec, Buenos Aires: The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] celebrated the failure of two key trade negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, to reach a successful conclusion during negotiations in Argentina [2]…. Read More
Category: Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News Tags: Brazi, china, GFC, Global Forest Coalition, india, WTO
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