Global Forest Coalition

Ubuntu in Action Zambian Women Leading Agroecology and Cultural Revival

🌍 Real solutions to forest degradation, climate change & biodiversity loss come from the ground up—here’s a powerful example from #women in Zambia working with joy and determination to restore #forests and #foodsecurity 👩🏿‍🌾🌱

📸 the-global-forest-coalition.shorthandstories.com/ubuntu-in-ac...

Historic Inter-American Court Ruling: A Game-Changer for Environmental Defenders? The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued one of the most progressive climate justice decisions of our time. Its historic Advisory Opinion on the climate emergency and human rights, released...

⚖️ What does the historic #climate ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights mean for environmental #defenders?

🔎 Via @ipsnews.net, CIEL’s Luisa Gómez and Alexandra Colón-Amil explore how States MUST protect the right to defend the planet in #LatinAmerica and beyond.

👇 bit.ly/4fqC5VN

Israeli Forces Demolish Seed Multiplication Unit of UAWC’s Seed Bank in Hebron | Via Campesina Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants' Seeds In a grave escalation of its assault on Palestinian agricultural sovereignty, food sovereignty and Indigenous Seed Heritage, Israeli military forces carri...

The Israeli army has just destroyed the seed bank of the Palestinian farmers' organisation, UAWC, in the West Bank. We condemn this latest crime against the Palestinian people and their efforts to defend their food sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with UAWC.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/07/i...

🌍 On #WorldNatureConservationDay, we say YES to community conservation and NO to offsetting schemes that allow industries like fossil fuels, mining, and industrial agriculture to keep destroying forests. Respect ecosystems, IP rights, and women's rights globalforestcoalition.org/wp-content/u...

Direct funding to locals for community conservation is good 👏 but schemes like TFFF that monetize forests and benefit private investors are different and quite nefarious. A few last-minute consults with IPs cannot ‘fix’ the TFFF. We’ve also raised concerns: globalforestcoalition.org/report-tfff/

👎 worst news

The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions The U.S. agriculture lobby has long promoted ethanol for cars. If President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law, the industry would be given tax credits for producing crop-based fuel for planes, ...

The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions e360.yale.edu/features/cor... via @YaleE360

using crops to produce fuel instead of food increases food prices and global hunger, spurring farmers around the world to tear down more forests and plow up more grasslands

Leticia Tura, FASE: "Problemas como el cambio climático están mal enmarcados, simplificados a la moneda del carbono. La ID del problema y sus soluciones, se muestran como algo inexorable por el capitalismo, pero corresponde a nosotras los pueblos, caminar una visión amplia de justicia climática"

Valentina Figuera Martinez de GFC: "Es importante también ser críticas con las cifras. Las líneas base son creadas por grandes corporaciones, por el Banco Mundial, y ellos nos dicen cuánto hace falta, por ejemplo, para sus metas de biodiversidad o climáticas y cómo se deben encauzar estos recursos"

Reunidas esta semana en São Paolo con colegas, miembros y aliades en el "Encuentro Regional Mercados de la Naturaleza".

Que gusto estar con Heñoi Centro de Estudios, CLOC Via Campesina, @grain.org @mst.org.br Marcha Mundial de Mujeres, @amigasdelatierra.bsky.social y más para debatir y diologar 😀🌱

Detención del lonco Juan Pichun: un capítulo más de la represión a histórica familia Mapuche | Resumen.cl La reciente detención del Lonko Juan Pichun ha vuelto a encender las alarmas sobre la persistente criminalización del pueblo Mapuche en...

Arrest of Lonco Juan Pichun: Another chapter in the repression of a historic #Mapuche family
In Wallmapu, Chile July 18, 2025 @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social @indigenousinfonet.bsky.social @ienearth.bsky.social @survivalinternational.org @xrglobal.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social

We just signed the open letter to Peter Kyle and @feryalclark.bsky.social at the Dept for Science Innovation & Tech telling the UK government to reject Drax Power Station's bid to burn even more trees to power AI data centres - no more bungs for biomass! #AxeDrax

🥁 ⏰ Credenciamento de imprensa para a COP30 está aberto: unfccc.int/about-us/pre...

Press accreditation is open for COP 30 in Belem 👀https://unfccc.int/about-us/press-and-media#Media-accreditation

#COP30

At last! Forest Stewardship Council admits that it has certified logging operations on the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation One of these certificates was awarded in 2007. The other in 2011.

“FSC’s acknowledgement that it had certified logging operations on the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation has been a very long time coming.

FSC already has rules. What it needs to do is apply them.”

@fsc-if.bsky.social #forests

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/at-last-fo...

@ciwf.org.uk @brightergreen.bsky.social @worldanimalprotection.org.uk New report by GRAIN shows factory farms foster dangerous diseases due to overcrowding, genetic uniformity, and antibiotic use

La gripe aviar H5N1 sigue expandiéndose afectando animales y seres humanos. De acuerdo a un informe de GRAIN, las granjas industriales favorecen la evolución de virus peligrosos debido al hacinamiento, uniformidad genética y uso de antibióticos rebelion.org/globalizacio... @gfc-forest.bsky.social

🥳 This is a big win! Read more about the cancellation of the loan to fast food giants that fuel deforestation:

EBRD Cancellation of €40 Million Investment in Burger King Expansion a Victory for People and Planet globalforestcoalition.org/ebrd-livesto...

#StopFinancingFactoryFarming

Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction Lions have been dubbed the king of the jungle, but one could argue the real royalty are the trees, the massive woody beasts that hold down the land and root the web of life that teems around them. In…

Of the more than 4,000 known tree species found only in Mesoamerica, nearly half are threatened with extinction, according a new assessment.

Agriculture emerges as the primary threat from both small- and large-scale farming, while logging represents the second major threat in 5 countries.

UPCOMING #Webinar!🖥️

ACAT & @che-healthenv.bsky.social will present "Carbon Capture and Storage: A Dangerous Distraction."

Speakers will explain how CCS is a false climate solution that prolongs our reliance on fossil fuels and enables industry to continue polluting.

akaction.org/webinars/202...

Frenar la expansión de los monocultivos de soja para proteger la vida • Ecologistas en Acción La soja, materia prima estrella de la creciente industria cárnica, sigue considerándose un combustible renovable en Europa. Ecologistas en Acción denuncia la incongruencia de políticas que permiten la...

La soja, materia prima estrella de la creciente industria cárnica, sigue considerándose un combustible renovable en Europa.

@laenredadera.bsky.social y Marta Orihuel escriben en #RevistaEcologista sobre la incongruencia de políticas que permiten la expansión de la soja que destruye bosques.

"Internationalism has never been as crucial as we link our local, national and global struggles, find strength in each other, and together, push forward real solutions and fight for nature and humanity".

"To overcome the global climate crisis, we need to come together and fight against the capitalist system that only profits and exploits people and nature."

Our Policy Director Mary Louise Malig was the guest speaker at the @globaljusticenow.bsky.social 2025 Annual General Meeting today. 🫶

Some of her remarks are in the comments ⬇️

UN Environment Programme fails to investigate its role in the TNFD greenwashing controversy - Global Forest Coalition The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies.

UN Environment Programme fails to investigate its role in the TNFD greenwashing controversy

Complainants call for UNEP to overturn the dismissal and proceed through its complaint mechanism

globalforestcoalition.org/tnfd-unep-pr...

#TNFD @ran.org

Pulp profits, broken lives: Suzano’s war on Brazilian families -

Suzano, the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, has requested the eviction of 600 families in the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

environmentalpaper.org/2025/07/pulp...

Ask your MP to oppose damaging aviation biofuels Aviation accounts for over 7% of the UK's carbon footprint. This is projected to rise to 11% in 2030, and 16% in 2035. The net warming impact of aviation is estimated to be three times as high. Theref...

Our latest e-action is live! Supporters in the UK can contact their MP and push back against harmful policies incentivising aviation biofuels. actionnetwork.org/letters/titl...

#biofuels #saf #aviation #uk

🔴 The EU’s updated Climate Law falls short of delivering the real solutions needed to reach real zero.

The new proposal rely on international carbon offsets and #CDR — approaches that undermine climate ambition and delay real emission cuts.

Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

#CutCarbonNotForests #BigBadBiomass @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social

Good news from the struggle to stop big biomass in California

Golden State Natural Resources pulls the plug on their poorly conceived proposal to bring global wood pellet industry villains like Drax to our state

The Disconnect Between Climate Goals And Funds For Factory Farms As of today, IFC funds should be fully aligned with the Paris climate agreement. Climate researchers say that's impossible while supporting industrial animal agriculture.

A must-read👉 The Disconnect Between Climate Goals and Funds for Factory Farms - Communities in Ecuador aren’t alone in their frustration w intensive animal farming operations financed by development banks that are supposed to help, not harm www.forbes.com/sites/christ... #stopfinancingfactoryfarming