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