Global Forest Coalition

ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests Our member organisation operates in full accordance with international law ; its primary role is to support farmers in Palestine.

We join Via Campesina in condemning the arbitrary and violent attacks on their Palestinian member group by Israeli forces viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...

How Public Finance for Agriculture Can Improve Food Security, Health, and Climate | Common Dreams By supporting agroecology, multilateral development banks can stop fueling harm and start financing a just and sustainable food systems transition.

By supporting agroecology, multilateral development banks can stop fueling harm and start financing a just and sustainable food systems transition. www.commondreams.org/opinion/publ...

🚨Instead of climate justice, COP30 delivered corporate capture:

🔴 At least 20 events pushed geoengineering across pavilions and side events
🔴531 Carbon Capture and Storage lobbyists roamed the halls
🔴1 in 25 delegates represented the fossil fuel industry

@ciel.org @gfc-forest.bsky.social

As the much vaunted “Forest COP” veers dramatically off course, industrial logging of forests looks to have gained primacy over genuine forest protection.

Read more from EPN: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom...

#cop30 #forests

Biomass Action Network Fears compromise at #COP30 and demands that the Transition away from Fossil Fuels must be to Clean Energy Sources which Keep Forests Standing. Read our press release here: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom... @stand.earth @cop30brazil.bsky.social #UNFCCC

Photo of a large oil refinery. Text: Martinez refinery in California converted to biofuels by Marathon and Neste

Illusory Emissions Reductions from #Biofuels Undermine California Progress on Climate - Article by @vozsilvestre.bsky.social exposes how ~45% of recent ghg reductions are attributed to "renewable diesel" which is no better for the climate than fossil fuels: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/illusor...

Today at COP30 with WECF

More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

Revealed: >300 Big Agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation by me and @rachelsherrington.bsky.social has found.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣 COP30 Press Conference

Join GFC & allies across the Global South for a briefing on why a truly just transition must centre community sovereignty—not corporate false solutions

🗓 Wed 19 Nov 2025
⏰ 11:30 BRT
📍 COP30 Press Conf Rm 2

With: APWLD, FARN, IBON Africa, IEN, GFC, IPRI

🛢️☠️ Hoy con @attac-espana.bsky.social @cgt.es @ecologistasenaccion.org @entrepueblos.bsky.social @greenpeace.es @justiciaalimentar.bsky.social denunciamos que el acuerdo UE-MERCOSUR infla el colapso climático, el comercio de sustancias tóxicas y la injusticia social.
👉 www.tierra.org/pedro-sanche...

Press conference at #COP30 tomorrow, Nov 19 11:30am #Belém

On global south sovereignty and forests, including issue of #TFFF

@ienearth.bsky.social

You can *make this symbol your profile picture* if you also disagree with the TFFF—putting a price on forests and favoring wealthy investors, threatening rights and sovereignty in the South #TFFFnãoésolução #NoTFFF

On Forest Action Day at #CO30 in Belém, we highlight the demands from the Peoples Summit, which has warned against the Tropical Forest Forever Facility or TFFF as a financialisation scheme that’s an inadequate response to deforestation. We need REAL action to tackle the drivers of deforestation 🌲🌴🌳

As Indonesia turns COP30 into carbon market showcase, critics warn of ‘hot air’ BELÉM, Brazil — As governments debate how to mobilize trillions of dollars in climate finance, Indonesia is using the COP30 climate summit in Brazil to aggressively promote its carbon market — a…

Indonesia is using the COP30 climate summit to aggressively market its carbon credits, launching daily “Sellers Meet Buyers” sessions and seeking international commitments despite unresolved integrity issues in its carbon market.

Experts warn Indonesia’s credits risk being “hot air.”

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.

🔴 NEW 🔴

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds

📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social

Published in partnership with @apublica.org

www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

Material realities: Who needs ‘critical minerals’ and at whose expense? - Global Justice Now Over half of minerals designated as ‘critical’ by UK play no major role in the green transition - and are driven in a large way by militarisation.

Our report 'Material Realities' found nearly one-fifth of minerals labeled “critical” by the U.K. aren’t actually essential for the green energy transition.

Instead these are needed for the aerospace and weapons industries - read the full report here 👇🏽

www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/mat...

📣Join us tomorrow (14th November, 2pm) at the Peoples' Summit in Belem @COP30 to expose the scams of #technofixes! Mirante, Room/sala 305
@handsoffmotherearth.org @codingrights.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social @solargeoeng.bsky.social @ciel.org

Decarbonisation or Dispossession? Industrial-Scale Biomass in Latin America and Its Impacts - Global Forest Coalition As COP30 convenes in Brazil, governments and corporations are spotlighting biomass as a key part of the “green transition,” promoting it under national decarbonisation and bioeconomy agendas. The Bele...

New short report by @gfc-forest.bsky.social and @environmentalpaper.bsky.social exposes the impacts of large-scale #biomass energy, mostly for use in industry, on communities and ecosystems: globalforestcoalition.org/decarbonisat...

Transforming Food Systems for a Just and Equitable Transition, Friday 14 Nov 2:30pm at Cupula dos Povos #COP30 with Via Campesina, @worldanimalprotection.org.uk @waronwant.bsky.social and Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development #CupulaDosPovos

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Today at #COP30 People's Summit in Belém, a huge inflatable is on display, making the link between pesticide use and the climate/biodiversity crisis caused by Big Polluters like #Bayer #BASF #Syngenta #Croplife.

☠️ #Pesticides: Heating the Planet, Poisoning the Future

Biofuels pose high risk to Lula's roadmap away from fossil fuels Brazilian president Lula's call to move away from fossil fuels may boost biofuels and cause forest destruction

#COP30 must deliver a clear #roadmap for the transition away from #fossilfuels. That will not come easily. This is where the real fight begins.

For @climatechangenews.com, I detail why we need a roadmap, what a roadmap mandate could do - and why it must not be hijacked by Brazil’s #biofuels agenda.

#PressReleaseAlert

🌎 As COP30 and the Peoples Summit open in Belém, movements declare: Our HOME is not a laboratory ❗
🚨Geoengineering is an illusionary fix, a dangerous distraction and false solution pushed by powerful interests through carbon markets.
#HandsOffMotherEarth #COP30 #CúpulaDosPovos

“More than half of energy transition mineral reserves are estimated to be located on or near Indigenous land and a large majority of mines are located in biodiversity hotspots. Indigenous Peoples are widely acknowledged to play a key role in preserving tropical forests that act as carbon sinks

Today 2pm in the tribunals tent at Cupula dos Povos #COP30: Court in Defense of the Bodies and Territories of Women and Sexual Dissidents. cupuladospovoscop30.org/en/program/

Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure

Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
@amnesty.org
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With peoples and communities of the Amazon, with our collective struggles against false solutions and dangerous distractions, HOME Alliance launches our renewed manifesto calling for #NoGeoengineering
#HandsOffMotherEarth
@gfc-forest.bsky.social @cjaourpower.bsky.social @ciel.org @gcdcj.bsky.social

🥁 Hoje na Embaixada dos Povos:
🌳 NÃO AO TFFF E OUTRAS SOLUÇÕES FALSAS PARA AS FLORESTAS
🗓️ Quarta-feira, 12 novembro, 9h–13h
Discutiremos as soluções falsas promovidas na COP30, por que elas falham e como impedem as alternativas reais impulsionadas pelas comunidades.

🥁 Hoy en la Embajada de los Pueblos:
🌳 NO AL TFFF Y OTRAS SOLUCIONES FALSAS PARA LOS BOSQUES
🗓️ Miércoles, 12 noviembre, 9h–13h
Hablaremos de las soluciones falsas promovidas en la COP30, por qué fracasan y cómo obstaculizan las alternativas reales impulsadas por las comunidades.

🥁 Today @ People’s Embassy Belém:
🌳 NO TO TFFF & OTHER FALSE SOLUTIONS FOR FORESTS
🗓️ Wed. Nov. 12, 9am–1pm
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We’ll discuss false solutions promoted at COP30, why they fail and how they obstruct real, community-driven alternatives.

@handsoffmotherearth.org