Global Forest Coalition
@gfc-forest.bsky.social
GFC is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies from a feminist perspective. Since 2000.
🌾❗Nov 10 Opening Day Action❗🌾
Let’s send a strong message that peoples of the Global South will not accept big business greenwashing. Especially when it comes to our right to food.
Monday Nov 10 5pm at the Agrizone, a corporate-sponsored area maps.app.goo.gl/dGm7L1GeUJYz... #COP30
Let’s send a strong message that peoples of the Global South will not accept big business greenwashing. Especially when it comes to our right to food.
Monday Nov 10 5pm at the Agrizone, a corporate-sponsored area maps.app.goo.gl/dGm7L1GeUJYz... #COP30
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🌾❗Nov 10 Opening Day Action❗🌾
Let’s send a strong message that peoples of the Global South will not accept big business greenwashing. Especially when it comes to our right to food.
Monday Nov 10 5pm at the Agrizone, a corporate-sponsored area maps.app.goo.gl/dGm7L1GeUJYz... #COP30
Let’s send a strong message that peoples of the Global South will not accept big business greenwashing. Especially when it comes to our right to food.
Monday Nov 10 5pm at the Agrizone, a corporate-sponsored area maps.app.goo.gl/dGm7L1GeUJYz... #COP30
"The reasons behind the systematic crimes are: extractivism, coca crops and monoculture expansion, a vivid struggle for land control in rural areas."
[COMMENTARY]
Environmental leaders in Latin America are facing out-of-control violence and deaths, with little accountability and journalism is failing environmental leaders by focusing on statistics instead of their stories, says one of our Y. Eva Tan fellows.
** Views are author's.
Environmental leaders in Latin America are facing out-of-control violence and deaths, with little accountability and journalism is failing environmental leaders by focusing on statistics instead of their stories, says one of our Y. Eva Tan fellows.
** Views are author's.
Journalism is failing to report on environmental leaders’ fights (commentary)
Protecting the jungle “justifies all the struggles. … what’s the value of your life if you have nothing to die for?” Ángela Maldonado, Whitley Award winner and director of the NGO Fundación…
news.mongabay.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"The reasons behind the systematic crimes are: extractivism, coca crops and monoculture expansion, a vivid struggle for land control in rural areas."
At today’s “No to TFFF” press conference at the People’s Embassy in Belém:“80 cents per hectare isn't even enough for a cup of coffee in Indonesia. People continue to defend their forests, and we, the indigenous peoples of Indonesia, recognize the TFFF as illegitimate.” -GFC member Satrio #COP30
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
At today’s “No to TFFF” press conference at the People’s Embassy in Belém:“80 cents per hectare isn't even enough for a cup of coffee in Indonesia. People continue to defend their forests, and we, the indigenous peoples of Indonesia, recognize the TFFF as illegitimate.” -GFC member Satrio #COP30
Press conf today at Belém: “The TFFF is a scam, a colonial legacy, which is not addressing the structural causes of deforestation. The TFFF is a false solution to climate change and forest conservation. It is a distraction.” —Kwami Kpondzo, Centre por la Justice Environnmentale Togo #NOTFFF #TFFF
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We've been tracking the Tropical Forest Forever Facility #TFFF since it was first discussed a year ago at the G20 in Rio.
ICYMI, here is our in-depth analysis of this mechanism: globalforestcoalition.org/report-tfff/
ICYMI, here is our in-depth analysis of this mechanism: globalforestcoalition.org/report-tfff/
REPORT | TFFF: A False Solution for Tropical Forests - 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.
globalforestcoalition.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We've been tracking the Tropical Forest Forever Facility #TFFF since it was first discussed a year ago at the G20 in Rio.
ICYMI, here is our in-depth analysis of this mechanism: globalforestcoalition.org/report-tfff/
ICYMI, here is our in-depth analysis of this mechanism: globalforestcoalition.org/report-tfff/
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Guest article ➡️ Entrenching a new era of climate colonialism: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions at COP30
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
Entrenching a new era of climate colonialism: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions at COP30 - Geoengineering Monitor
Guest article by Tamra L Gilbertson, MPH, PhD
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Guest article ➡️ Entrenching a new era of climate colonialism: Carbon Dioxide Removal, carbon markets and Nature Based Solutions at COP30
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
By Tamra L Gilbertson
www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/CDR-at-COP30
#Article6 #ParisAgreement #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #CarbonMarkets #TFFF #Geoengineering
Conferência de imprensa amanhã 8 de novembro às 10h na Embaixada do Povos em Belém para o lançamento da declaração “NÃO ao TFFF, SIM aos direitos das florestas”
Press conference tomorrow Nov 8 at 10 am in the People's Embassy in Belém as we launch the "NO to TFFF, YES to Forest Rights" declaration
Press conference tomorrow Nov 8 at 10 am in the People's Embassy in Belém as we launch the "NO to TFFF, YES to Forest Rights" declaration
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Conferência de imprensa amanhã 8 de novembro às 10h na Embaixada do Povos em Belém para o lançamento da declaração “NÃO ao TFFF, SIM aos direitos das florestas”
Press conference tomorrow Nov 8 at 10 am in the People's Embassy in Belém as we launch the "NO to TFFF, YES to Forest Rights" declaration
Press conference tomorrow Nov 8 at 10 am in the People's Embassy in Belém as we launch the "NO to TFFF, YES to Forest Rights" declaration
“TFFF is the old colonization dressed in green.” They want to convince us that selling the forest is saving it, but what they are doing is handing it over to the control of financial capital.” -Sila Mesquita Apurinã, Rede de Trabalho Amazônico – GTA demandclimatejustice.org/2025/11/06/t... #TFFF
Quotesheet: Tropical Forest Forever Facility or The Fake Forest Fund? - Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
The Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) and its members and allies from Brazil and across the world reject the new proposal of Tropical Forest Forever Facility presented by the Brazilian g...
demandclimatejustice.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“TFFF is the old colonization dressed in green.” They want to convince us that selling the forest is saving it, but what they are doing is handing it over to the control of financial capital.” -Sila Mesquita Apurinã, Rede de Trabalho Amazônico – GTA demandclimatejustice.org/2025/11/06/t... #TFFF
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As we head to UN climate negotiations at UNFCCC #COP30
in Brazil, listen to HOME Alliance member Kwami Kpondzo of @gfc-forest.bsky.social sharing why carbon markets are opening the door to geoengineering. These markets are nothing but a smokescreen, an act of carbon colonialism.
#NoGeoengineering
in Brazil, listen to HOME Alliance member Kwami Kpondzo of @gfc-forest.bsky.social sharing why carbon markets are opening the door to geoengineering. These markets are nothing but a smokescreen, an act of carbon colonialism.
#NoGeoengineering
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
As we head to UN climate negotiations at UNFCCC #COP30
in Brazil, listen to HOME Alliance member Kwami Kpondzo of @gfc-forest.bsky.social sharing why carbon markets are opening the door to geoengineering. These markets are nothing but a smokescreen, an act of carbon colonialism.
#NoGeoengineering
in Brazil, listen to HOME Alliance member Kwami Kpondzo of @gfc-forest.bsky.social sharing why carbon markets are opening the door to geoengineering. These markets are nothing but a smokescreen, an act of carbon colonialism.
#NoGeoengineering
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Carbon markets are a false solution. Read the statement by 55 Latin American and Caribbean movements and groups, denouncing 80+ examples of land deals used to produce carbon credits, fuelling land grabs and the destruction of local food systems. grain.org/e/7322 @mst.org.br @gfc-forest.bsky.social
Latin American and Caribbean social organisations denounce carbon markets ahead of COP30
The groups say carbon markets are part of a larger carbon colonialism in which war is one of the main contemporary factors deepening the climate, ecological and social crises.
grain.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Carbon markets are a false solution. Read the statement by 55 Latin American and Caribbean movements and groups, denouncing 80+ examples of land deals used to produce carbon credits, fuelling land grabs and the destruction of local food systems. grain.org/e/7322 @mst.org.br @gfc-forest.bsky.social
🤑 É a vez do agronegócio cooptar a COP do clima no Brasil
A AgriZone reunirá gigantes como Nestlé e Bayer, além de grupos lobbistas como a CropLife www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/e... #cop30 #agronegocio
A AgriZone reunirá gigantes como Nestlé e Bayer, além de grupos lobbistas como a CropLife www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/e... #cop30 #agronegocio
É a vez do agronegócio cooptar a COP do clima no Brasil
Há mais esperanças de que a Conferência das Partes (COP) da Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudança do Clima (UNFCCC)
www.brasildefato.com.br
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
🤑 É a vez do agronegócio cooptar a COP do clima no Brasil
A AgriZone reunirá gigantes como Nestlé e Bayer, além de grupos lobbistas como a CropLife www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/e... #cop30 #agronegocio
A AgriZone reunirá gigantes como Nestlé e Bayer, além de grupos lobbistas como a CropLife www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/e... #cop30 #agronegocio
🤑 Agribusiness gets its turn to co-opt the climate COP in Brazil: Hopes for Brazil’s COP run high after two oil-hosted summits, but agribusiness may derail climate progress again www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/a...
Agribusiness gets its turn to co-opt the climate COP in Brazil
Agribusiness has chainsawed its way over the past few decades to make Brazil the leading exporter of meats and animal
www.brasildefato.com.br
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
🤑 Agribusiness gets its turn to co-opt the climate COP in Brazil: Hopes for Brazil’s COP run high after two oil-hosted summits, but agribusiness may derail climate progress again www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/a...
👎 Down with the Tropical Forest Forever Facility #TFFF!
🤓"The Global Forest Coalition, which has more than a hundred affiliated groups in 71 countries, fears that governments will not hand over money directly, but will instead give it to government agencies and private companies"
🤓"The Global Forest Coalition, which has more than a hundred affiliated groups in 71 countries, fears that governments will not hand over money directly, but will instead give it to government agencies and private companies"
Brazil is set to unveil an investment fund that would channel billions of dollars yearly to countries that safeguard tropical forests.
Proponents see a game-changer for conservation, but critics say the plan will benefit investors first, rather than forests and the countries that host them.
Proponents see a game-changer for conservation, but critics say the plan will benefit investors first, rather than forests and the countries that host them.
Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?
Brazil is set to unveil an ambitious international plan that would provide up to $4 billion a year to countries that protect their tropical forests. Proponents see it as a potential game-changer for f...
e360.yale.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
👎 Down with the Tropical Forest Forever Facility #TFFF!
🤓"The Global Forest Coalition, which has more than a hundred affiliated groups in 71 countries, fears that governments will not hand over money directly, but will instead give it to government agencies and private companies"
🤓"The Global Forest Coalition, which has more than a hundred affiliated groups in 71 countries, fears that governments will not hand over money directly, but will instead give it to government agencies and private companies"
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🌍 Às vésperas da #COP30, a Repórter Brasil lança relatório sobre violações socioambientais na cadeia dos #biocombustíveis.
🌍 Ahead of #COP30, Repórter Brasil releases a new report on socio-environmental violations in the global #biofuels supply chain.
🌍 Ahead of #COP30, Repórter Brasil releases a new report on socio-environmental violations in the global #biofuels supply chain.
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🌍 Às vésperas da #COP30, a Repórter Brasil lança relatório sobre violações socioambientais na cadeia dos #biocombustíveis.
🌍 Ahead of #COP30, Repórter Brasil releases a new report on socio-environmental violations in the global #biofuels supply chain.
🌍 Ahead of #COP30, Repórter Brasil releases a new report on socio-environmental violations in the global #biofuels supply chain.
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World Rainforest Movement’s sign on statement to stop the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/stop-the-t...
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/stop-the-t...
STOP the TFFF now!
World Rainforest Movement has put out a sign on statement to stop the TFFF.
reddmonitor.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
World Rainforest Movement’s sign on statement to stop the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/stop-the-t...
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/stop-the-t...
✍ GFC and some of our member groups signed the *Manifesto in defense of territories and food sovereignty against nature markets*
Check it out!
🔗 grain.org/e/7322
Check it out!
🔗 grain.org/e/7322
Latin American and Caribbean social organisations denounce carbon markets ahead of COP30
The groups say carbon markets are part of a larger carbon colonialism in which war is one of the main contemporary factors deepening the climate, ecological and social crises.
grain.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
✍ GFC and some of our member groups signed the *Manifesto in defense of territories and food sovereignty against nature markets*
Check it out!
🔗 grain.org/e/7322
Check it out!
🔗 grain.org/e/7322
When world leaders arrive in Belém this November for COP30, the first UN climate summit hosted in the heart of the Amazon, they’ll be joined by thousands of corporate representatives, from oil giants and agribusiness conglomerates to banks and mining firms.
euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the... #COP30
euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the... #COP30
Will COP30 in Brazil be another corporate lobby fair? Yes
Behind the badges and glossy branding lies a much starker reality: the world’s biggest polluters are using the COP process to delay, and weaken the very policies meant to hold them accountable, warn T...
euobserver.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When world leaders arrive in Belém this November for COP30, the first UN climate summit hosted in the heart of the Amazon, they’ll be joined by thousands of corporate representatives, from oil giants and agribusiness conglomerates to banks and mining firms.
euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the... #COP30
euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the... #COP30
El BID Invest financió a la empresa de producción cárnica #Pronaca sin evaluar los impactos ambientales y sociales de la empresa, según sus propias conclusiones.
El informe reconoce q la compañía contaminó durante décadas el territorio indígena tsáchila en #Ecuador es.mongabay.com/2025/10/ecua...
El informe reconoce q la compañía contaminó durante décadas el territorio indígena tsáchila en #Ecuador es.mongabay.com/2025/10/ecua...
Ecuador: informe del BID admite que financió a una empresa que contaminó el territorio indígena tsáchila por más de 30 años
Un informe del MICI confirma que la empresa Pronaca es responsable de décadas de contaminación en el territorio tsáchila, en Ecuador.
es.mongabay.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
El BID Invest financió a la empresa de producción cárnica #Pronaca sin evaluar los impactos ambientales y sociales de la empresa, según sus propias conclusiones.
El informe reconoce q la compañía contaminó durante décadas el territorio indígena tsáchila en #Ecuador es.mongabay.com/2025/10/ecua...
El informe reconoce q la compañía contaminó durante décadas el territorio indígena tsáchila en #Ecuador es.mongabay.com/2025/10/ecua...
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GJEP is working with @ienearth.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social and many others to Mobilize to stop GE Trees at the CBD in Panama. Read our latest joint IEN-GJEP press release and indigenous participant statements below:
globaljusticeecology.org/stop-ge-tree...
globaljusticeecology.org/stop-ge-tree...
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
GJEP is working with @ienearth.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social and many others to Mobilize to stop GE Trees at the CBD in Panama. Read our latest joint IEN-GJEP press release and indigenous participant statements below:
globaljusticeecology.org/stop-ge-tree...
globaljusticeecology.org/stop-ge-tree...
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In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today they are outweighed 1 to 20
Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Governments spent US$956 billion on net fossil fuel subsidies in 2023, more than triple the annual amount pledged to support climate-vulnerable countries. Fifteen countries spent more subsidizing fossil fuels than on their entire national health budgets. @thelancet.com
www.who.int/news/item/29...
www.who.int/news/item/29...
Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year, warns new Lancet Countdown report
WHO and global partners are calling for the protection of people’s health to be recognized as the most powerful driver of climate action, as a new global report released today warns that continued ove...
www.who.int
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Governments spent US$956 billion on net fossil fuel subsidies in 2023, more than triple the annual amount pledged to support climate-vulnerable countries. Fifteen countries spent more subsidizing fossil fuels than on their entire national health budgets. @thelancet.com
www.who.int/news/item/29...
www.who.int/news/item/29...
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“It’s not just about cutting emissions. Dealing with climate change requires more. It calls for deep, systemic change in how societies value nature, design economies, consume resources and define progress.” www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social
Humanity is on path toward 'climate chaos,' scientists warn
Global use of fossil fuels rose to a new record last year, releasing even more greenhouse gases. Humanity is 'hurtling toward climate chaos,' scientists warn.
www.latimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“It’s not just about cutting emissions. Dealing with climate change requires more. It calls for deep, systemic change in how societies value nature, design economies, consume resources and define progress.” www.latimes.com/environment/... via @ianjames.bsky.social
"Monoculture tree plantations are false solutions to climate change. They displace communities and violate free, prior, and informed consent. ...we must guarantee our land rights to defend our territories against GM trees." Gustavo Ulcué Campo, Nasa community, Colombia webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g...
Press Conference: "Indigenous Peoples Defend the CBD's de facto 2007 moratoria on genetically engineered trees" organized by Global Justice Ecology Project (SB8J)
Indigenous Peoples use international law including the Convention on Biological Diversity's Article 8(J) to defend the CBD's de facto 2007 moratoria on genetically engineered trees, as well as to prot...
webtv.un.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Monoculture tree plantations are false solutions to climate change. They displace communities and violate free, prior, and informed consent. ...we must guarantee our land rights to defend our territories against GM trees." Gustavo Ulcué Campo, Nasa community, Colombia webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g...
"We're concerned by the push to create global economies based on destroying nature. For us [the Nasa of Colombia], the most important thing is land titles for IPs to defend against extractive industries. We've suffered due to monoculture plantations" -Gustavo ULCUÉ CAMPO webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g...
Press Conference: "Indigenous Peoples Defend the CBD's de facto 2007 moratoria on genetically engineered trees" organized by Global Justice Ecology Project (SB8J)
Indigenous Peoples use international law including the Convention on Biological Diversity's Article 8(J) to defend the CBD's de facto 2007 moratoria on genetically engineered trees, as well as to prot...
webtv.un.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"We're concerned by the push to create global economies based on destroying nature. For us [the Nasa of Colombia], the most important thing is land titles for IPs to defend against extractive industries. We've suffered due to monoculture plantations" -Gustavo ULCUÉ CAMPO webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g...