Global Forest Coalition

Global Forest Coalition

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is a coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations engaged in the global policy debate related to forests. The mission of the Global Forest Coalition is to advocate the rights of forest-dependent peoples as a basis for forest policy and addressing the direct and underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation. To do so, the coalition facilitates effective and equitable participation of these groupsin global policy fora related to forests and monitors the implementation of agreed policy commitments. The three primary targets of the coalition are the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

The Global Forest Coalition was set up in 2000 by 19 groups from all over the world. It succeeds the NGO Forest Working Group, which was established in 1995 to advocate for social justice issues and the underlying causes of forest loss to be addressed in international forest policy debates.

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* [http://www.wrm.org.uy/gfc GFC]


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