Publications
Global Forest Coalition Annual Report:
REDD:
- REDD Realities
How strategies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation could impact on biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples in developing countries
by the Global Forest Coalition, December 2009.
- Forests and Climate Change
An Introduction to the Role of Forests in the UN Climate Change Negotiations
GFC, May 2009 - Imaginary Sinks: India’s REDD Ambitions
A Position Paper by the Forum of Forest People & Forest Workers (NFFPFW), India
- The hottest REDD issues
Rights, Equity, Development, Deforestation and Governance by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
- Declaration against monoculture tree plantations
Exclude Monoculture Tree Plantations from Financial Support to Forest and Climate Change-related Programs
- 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
- Can the Amazon survive false solutions?
By Hildebrando Velez, executive director, CENSAT Agua Viva/Friends of the Earth Colombia
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 - GFC Response to EU Green Paper on Forests and Climate Change
Market based conservation:
- Life as Commerce toolkit
Toolkit to help communities who are being asked to accept or engage in a market-based conservation project.
- LIFE AS COMMERCE 2008:
The impact of market-based conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women
Case study on Certification in South Africa
By: The Timberwatch Coalition, 2008
Case study on Carbon sinks in Colombia (only in Spanish)
By: CENSAT Aqua Viva, 2008
Case study on biodiversity offsets in Paraguay
By: Alter Vida, 2008
Case study on Ecotourism in India
By: EQUATIONS, 2008
Case study on bioprospecting in Costa Rica (only in Spanish)
By: COECOCEIBA, 2008
- 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
Gender strategy
GFC has adopted a gender mainstreaming strategy. The goal is to ensure the rights, roles and needs of women and men are given equal attention in all the programs and activities of the Global Forest Coalition, and in its institutional structure. The overall goal is the achievement of gender equity. February 2008 .
