International: Global Forest Coalition To United Nations: Nature At Whose Service?

International: Global Forest Coalition To United Nations: Nature At Whose Service?   On the eve of the next round of United Nations climate talks, the Global Forest Coalition (GFC), a worldwide network of more than 50 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples' Organisations, has expressed its strong opposition to the theme of the UN’s 2011 World Environment Day, which takes place on 5 June. While intended to draw attention to the many ways in which forests are essential to human society, and, in the words...

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