Global Forest Coalition

[EN 👇🏾] 🌎 Conferencia de prensa: Belem en el Horizonte: Redes de justicia climática hablan sobre el camino a la COP30🌎 🗓️ Jueves 31 de octubre, 2024, 2:30-3:00 pm hora Colombia (19:30 UTC) 📍Zona Azul y en directo por https://lnkd.in/ePJbrM-w 🗣️ Redes y organizaciones de justicia climática entregan su evaluación de la COP16 de biodiversidad y proyectan los desafíos futuros con el horizonte en la COP30 de Cambio Climático de Belém el 2025. Con: Valentina Figuera (GFC)| Leticia Tura (FASE Brasil) | Osver Polo (CAN-LA) | Joao Pedro Galvao (FOSPA) 🇧🇷 [EN] 🌎 Press Conference — Belem on the Horizon: Climate Justice Networks on the Challenges Ahead for Climate COP30 🌎 🗓️ Thursday, 31 October, 2:30-3:00 pm hora Colombia (19:30 UTC) 📍Blue Zone and live online at https://lnkd.in/eyWx8Vm5 🗣️ Climate justice networks and organizations will speak in a press conference to offer their assessment of what has happened at Biodiversity COP16 and make projections on future challenges on the road to Climate COP30 in Belem With: Valentina Figuera (GFC)| Leticia Tura (FASE Brasil) | Osver Polo (CAN-LA) | Joao Pedro Galvao (FOSPA) 🇧🇷 #cop16 #COP16Colombia

🌍 Press conference: The Realities of ‘Peace with Nature’ 🌍 🗓️ Tuesday 29 October 🕟 4:30pm Colombia (UTC-5) 📍 Blue Zone and live broadcast: https://lnkd.in/eRb3dG6u Join leading biodiversity and climate campaigners as they provide a candid overview of the ongoing discussions at the UN CBD COP 16, including a gender lens. Speakers: Letícia Tura 🇧🇷 | Heather Lee 🇨🇦 | Uslaini 🇮🇩 | Souparna Lahiri 🇮🇳 🌍 Conferencia de prensa COP16 – Las realidades de la ‘Paz con la naturaleza’ 🌍 🗓️ Martes 29 de octubre 🕟 16:30 – 17:00 CST (UTC-5) 📍 Zona Azul y transmisión en vivo: https://lnkd.in/eRb3dG6u Únase a expertes, representantes Indígenas y activistas climáticos para un análisis de la COP16, abordando la biodiversidad y el enfoque de género. Escuche sobre las acciones urgentes necesarias para que los compromisos sean cambios reales. 🌱 Ponentes: Letícia Tura 🇧🇷 | Heather Lee 🇨🇦 | Uslaini 🇮🇩 | Souparna Lahiri 🇮🇳 🌍 Conférence de presse COP16 – Les réalités de ‘Paix avec la nature’ 🌍 🗓️ Mardi 29 octobre 🕟 16:30 – 17:00 CST (UTC-5) 📍 Zone Bleue et diffusion en direct: https://lnkd.in/eRb3dG6u Rejoignez des experts, des représentants autochtones et des militants du climat pour une analyse de la COP16, incluant la biodiversité et l’égalité du genre. Découvrez les actions urgentes pour transformer les engagements en actions concrètes. 🌱 Intervenants : Letícia Tura 🇧🇷 | Heather Lee 🇨🇦 | Uslaini 🇮🇩 | Souparna Lahiri 🇮🇳

🌿 Members and leaders from the Global Forest Coalition held a press conference this week at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) highlighting the need for countries to focus on real, community-led solutions to the biodiversity crisis and resist corporate lobbying and the commodification of nature. 🔗 Follow the link for more: https://lnkd.in/ePdjKgt4 #cop16colombia #cop16

🌴 Who Really Benefits? How REDD+ Fails Forests and Those Who Protect Them In this briefing from the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), launched at the UN Climate Change Conference (SB60) in Bonn, we unravel the confusions, contradictions and inherent issues with the REDD+ program. 🪵🔥 Time is running out: we are losing our forests at alarming rates. We need rights-based, community-driven forest protection. Indigenous land rights, actually stopping deforestation, and prioritizing true forest restoration and biodiversity over profit-driven false solutions is mandatory. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e-WDgwzG [ES] 🌴 ¿Quién se beneficia realmente? Cómo REDD+ perjudica a los bosques y a quienes los cuidan En este nuevo informe de la Coalición Mundial por los Bosques (GFC), presentado en la Conferencia de la ONU sobre el Cambio Climático (SB60) en Bonn, explicamos las contradicciones y los problemas inherentes al programa REDD+ 🪵🔥 El tiempo se nos acaba: estamos perdiendo nuestros bosques a un ritmo alarmante. Necesitamos una protección forestal basada en los derechos e impulsada por las comunidades. Derechos territoriales indígenas, detener realmente la deforestación y priorizar la verdadera restauración de los bosques y la biodiversidad sobre las falsas soluciones motivadas por el lucro. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e8Ha-X78 #COP29 #COP16 #REDD #ClimateFinance #ClimateChange

New S3F video highlights hypocrisy of the The World Bank which admits that transitioning away from industrial livestock is a climate imperative but fails to act, continuing to pump billions into highly polluting factory farms across the globe. 🏭 🐖 📛 Global Forest Coalition Sinergia Animal Bank Information Center International Accountability Project Friends of the Earth U.S. Feedback 👉#StopFinancingFactoryFarming

[ES 👇🏿] ❓Will COP16 on Biodiversity Listen to Indigenous Women or Corporate Lobbyists? "In a world increasingly dominated by patriarchal extractivist colonialism, the resistance, collective actions and victories of our Indigenous communities offer a beacon of hope. For those engaged in eco-feminist, environmentalist, human rights and climate justice movements, centering the defence of life and territories in our struggles has never been more urgent. Listening to the voices of these guardians of nature is crucial if we are to prevent biodiversity loss from reaching a point of no return." 🌿 As COP16 is underway in Cali, Colombia, we must constantly remind decision makers that those who are protecting our biodiversity globally are Indigenous Peoples, especially women, and not corporations. We cannot afford to ignore them. Article published in Truthout by Juana Vera Delgado & Chithira Vijayakumar 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e4xzUkdv 📷 Gabriel Aponte / Getty Images [ES] ❓ La COP16 sobre Biodiversidad escuchará las voces de las Mujeres Indígenas o a los Lobistas de las Corporaciones? "En un mundo cada vez más dominado por el colonialismo extractivista patriarcal, la resistencia, las acciones colectivas y las victorias de nuestras comunidades indígenas ofrecen un rayo de esperanza. Para quienes participamos en los movimientos ecofeministas, ecologistas, de derechos humanos, y de justicia climática, nunca ha sido tan urgente centrar nuestras luchas en la defensa de la vida y los territorios. Escuchar las voces de estos guardianes de la naturaleza es crucial si queremos evitar que la pérdida de biodiversidad alcance un punto de no retorno." 🌿 Mientras avanza la COP16 en Cali, Colombia, debemos recordar constantemente a los tomadores de decisiones que quienes protegen nuestra biodiversidad son los Pueblos Indígenas, especialmente las mujeres, de todo el mundo, y no las corporaciones. No podemos darnos el lujo de ignorarlos. Artículo publicado en Truthout por Juana Vera Delgado & Chithira Vijayakumar. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e-EfWQKH 📷 Gabriel Aponte / Getty Images #GenderJustice #cop16colombia #COP16

⚠️ Tourism often comes with a heavy price for Indigenous communities and ecosystems. 🌍 The Maasai in East Africa have faced displacement, cultural commodification, and environmental degradation from tourism developments on their ancestral lands. This new research paper unravels how mass tourism—under the mask of "ecotourism" and conservation—undermines the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) globally. "The fate of the Maasai community illustrates how protected areas and so-called ecotourism can deny Indigenous Peoples access to traditional knowledge, lands, and forests—the essential assets that underpin their livelihoods, health, and identities. This economic, political, and cultural marginalization creates social separation that can erode Indigenous societies." 🔗 Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/eJNPiQz6 #EcoTourism #Tourism #Indigenous #Maasai

How are biomass subsidies fueling biodiversity destruction? 🔥🌳 Read more on how misguided policies are harming the very ecosystems they claim to protect in Indonesia. ECO by Souparna Lahiri, GFC Originally published by CBD Alliance. 🔗

[ES ⬇️] ❗As COP 16 negotiations unfold, join experts and community leaders for an in-depth briefing on the biggest threats facing global efforts to address the biodiversity crisis. Panelists will dissect the risks posed by ineffective biodiversity offsetting and other market-based mechanisms that undermine real conservation efforts, including a gender lens. SPEAKERS:     🗣️Mary Louise Malig, Policy Director, GFC, Philippines     🗣️Diel Mochire Mwenge, PIDP, DRC        🗣️Handaine Mohamed, President of IPACC, Morocco       🗣️Souparna Lahiri, Senior Climate and Biodiversity Policy Advisor, GFC     🗣️Moderator: Valentina Figuera Martínez, Gender Justice and Forests Campaign coordinator 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gUqvKnAz A medida que se desarrollan las negociaciones de la COP 16, únase a expertos y líderes comunitarios para una sesión informativa en profundidad sobre las mayores amenazas que enfrentan los esfuerzos globales para abordar la crisis de la biodiversidad. Los panelistas analizarán los riesgos que plantean la compensación ineficaz de la biodiversidad y otros mecanismos basados en el mercado que socavan los esfuerzos reales de conservación, incluida una perspectiva de género. PONENTES:     🗣️Mary Louise Malig, Directora de Políticas, GFC, Filipinas     🗣️Diel Mochire Mwenge, PIDP, República Democrática del Congo     🗣️Handaine Mohamed, Presidente de IPACC, Marruecos     🗣️Souparna Lahiri, Asesor Senior de Política Climática y Biodiversidad, GFC, India 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g6yHxvf3

GFC is in COP16 in Cali, Colombia, to defend the lands and rights of Indigenous peoples, local communities, Afro-descendant peoples, women and youth. In different side events, street actions, and negotiations we stand with forests communities to avdocate for gender justice, non-market based approaches and the preservation of traditional knowledge. We demamd real solutions to halt biodiversity loss now!