Publications
Forests and the Biodiversity Convention
Independent Monitoring of the Implementation of the Expanded Programme of Work in:
Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria , Cameroon , Canada , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Georgia , Germany , Indonesia , Kyrgystan , Mexico , Mozambique , Nepal , Netherlands , New Zealand , Panama , Paraguay, Russia , Samoa , Uganda
Summary 'Forest and the Biodiversity Convention'
Agrofuels:
- The true cost of agrofuels

Impacts on food, forests, people and the climate
Current and future technologies for agrofuels:
path to deforestation, climate change and loss of
livelihoods. Summary.
- From Meals to Wheels
The Social and Ecological Catastrophe of Agrofuels, May 2007
- Biofuels: A Disaster in the Making
Call to immediately suspend forms of support for the import and export of biofuels - November 2006 - Certification agrofuels
The social impacts of certified timber plantations in South Africa and the implications thereof for agrofuel crops. By Timberwatch South Africa - Declaration: The Development Model for Soy in Paraguay:
Irresponsible, Unsustainable and Anti-Democratic.
The role of large scale soy production in the destruction of land, water, communities and ecosystems in Paraguay.
- Underlying Causes Initiative.
Micro-Grants Facility Funding Criteria and Outline for
Project Proposals for the Implementation of Capacity-Building Workshops
- Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD :
An Independent Review & Recommendations for Action
Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition, March 2002. - Forests and the Convention on Biological Diversity
A Dossier of Relevant Articles and Decisions Prepared by the Global Forest Coalition
Climate Change:
- Report on Independent Monitoring of the Implementation of Article 4.1 (d) of the Unites Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Global Forest Coalition - March 2006
- REDD: Can Forest Carbon Finance Stop Deforestation? A critical review of proposed REDD mechanisms by Ronnie Hall for Friends of the Earth International - July 2008
- Potential Policy Approaches and Positive Incentives to
Reduce Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries.
A submission to the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. February 2007 - Climate Change, Forest Conservation and Indigenous Peoples Rights
Discussion paper prepared by Estebancio Castro Diaz
International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Darwin, Australia, 2 – 4 April 2008
Market based conservation:
- International Financial Architecture and the Commodification of Life
By: Juana Camacho Otero, for Censat Agua Viva Foe-Colombia, June 2007 - Life as Commerce:
Free Trade and the Environment
A dangerous Liaison: the environment and free trade
By GFC and Comunidades Ecologistas La Ceiba Amigos de la Tierra Costa Rica, 2008 - Life as Commerce:
International Financial Institutions, payments for environmental services and carbon finance, 2008
- Life as Commerce : The Impact of Market-Based Conservation Mechanisms on Woman, 2008
- The impacts of market-based biodiversity conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women
This paper mainly focusses on carbon trade and biodiversity offsets.
Presented at the fifth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity, 1 November 2007 - You Cannot Save It If You Cannot Sell It? How Environmental Services Markets Impoverish People
Global Forest Coalition - August 2006 - Nature for sale - Friends of the Earth International and Global Forest Coalition
The new markets 1: selling our carbon . November 2005
The new markets 2: selling our genes and knowledge January 2006 - Ecotourism as a market-based conservation scheme in India (in Hindi )
How ecotourism development capitalizes on areas that are conserved at the cost of communities in India - Empty land
The social and environmental impact of the Holterberg plantations in the Netherlands

