Featured photo: FSC certified. Courtesy Timberwatch website Note: Wally Menne was a great ally in the fight to stop genetically engineered trees from the early days. I attended the Durban Group for Climate Justice founding meeting as a representative of the GE trees...
By Morgan Erickson-Davis From the Mongabay Series: Global Forest Reporting Network A new analysis of satellite data found 29.7 million hectares of tree cover was lost in 2016. The number represents a 51 percent jump over 2015. The analysts say fire is the big...
By CHRIS LANGE Originally published at Redd-Monitor.org Here we go again. “Plant more trees to combat climate change: scientists” is a Reuters headline from earlier this week. The article is based on a press release put out by The Nature Conservancy about a paper...
The Spin Off, a New Zealand-based site "covering pop culture, sport, politics and social life through features, criticism, interviews, videos and podcasts" recently acknowledged actions to stop genetically engineered trees in an article titled 30 ways campaigners...
18th October is an International Day of Action against Bioenergy, called by the Dogwood Alliance, Markets for Change, Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch and other allies around the world. Whether it’s US Southeastern forests clearcut to make wood pellet biomass for...
On 6th October, Biofuelwatch published its report "Aviation biofuels: How ICAO and industry plans for 'sustainable alternative aviation fuels' could lead to planes flying on palm oil". During this webinar, report author Almuth Ernsting will present the key findings of...
At the start of a major Climate Engineering Conference in Berlin, the Global Forest Coalition has launched a Working Paper that highlights the risks of different proposals for large-scale Carbon Dioxide Removal. The report finds that while the most prominent CDR...
Via Redd-Monitor.org World Rainforest Movement recently published a statement, signed by 26 Brazilian organisations, opposing REDD. Specifically, the statement is in opposition to the German-funded REDD Early Movers programme in the state of Mato Grosso. So far, REM...
Via the Carbon Brief Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they are able to absorb from the atmosphere as a result of the dual effects of deforestation and land degradation, a new study says. The research challenges the long-held belief that forests act as...
On September 21, 2017 about 150 to 200 women were stopped by police on their way to Pujehun to urge local authorities to take action against the Luxembourg-based oil palm plantation company SOCFIN for grabbing their lands and committing other related human rights...