http://www.fdc.ph/

http://www.foei.org/

Friends of the Earth International is the world’s largest grassroots environmental network, uniting 77 diverse national member groups and some 5,000 local activist groups on every continent.

With over 2 million members and supporters around the world, we campaign on today’s most urgent environmental and social issues.

We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalization , and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.

Our decentralized and democratic structure allows all member groups to participate in decision-making. We strive for gender equity in all of our campaigns and structures.

Our international positions are informed and strengthened by our work with communities, and our alliances with indigenous peoples, farmers’ movements, trade unions, human rights groups and others.

http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/

Mission
The mission of the Global Forest Coalition is to reduce poverty amongst, and avoid impoverishment of, Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent peoples, by advocating the rights of these peoples as a basis for forest policy and addressing the direct and underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation.


Strategic Approach
The main strategic approach of the Global Forest Coalition is to build the capacity of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples´ Organizations (IPOs) to monitor and engage in international forest policy and support national initiatives to implement the results of international forest policy processes.

A second, complementary strategy is to facilitate joint advocacy campaigns by its members, targeting international forest policy processes to ensure that they promote socially just and effective forest policies that respect the rights and needs of Indigenous Peoples and other forest peoples.

Objectives
The specific objectives of the Global Forest Coalition are:

• To facilitate the informed participation of NGOs and IPOs in global policy fora related to forests.
• To monitor the implementation of the commitments made by governments at these global forest policy fora.
• To raise the awareness of local communities, Indigenous Peoples, social movements, women’s groups and relevant policy-makers concerning the potential social and environmental impacts of market-based conservation schemes.
• To build and strengthen the capacity of local communities, Indigenous Peoples, social movements and women’s groups to analyze and address the social and environmental impacts of market-based conservation schemes.
• To build the capacity of NGOs, IPOs and other stakeholders and rights-holders to analyze and address the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation.
• To further enhance public and political awareness of the importance of analyzing and addressing the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation.

Gender strategy
In February 2008, GFC adopted a gender mainstreaming strategy. The goal of the gender mainstreaming strategy 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.

http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/

What differentiates Global Justice Ecology Project from most groups is our holistic approach to organizing.  We believe that the compartmentalization of issues is enabling corporations and conservative forces to keep movements for change divided and powerless.  We strive to identify and address the common roots to the issues of social injustice, ecological destruction and economic domination as a means to achieve a fundamental transformation toward a society based on egalitarian ideals and grounded in ecology.

We have two programs:
• The STOP GE Trees Campaign: The goal of this campaign is a global ban on the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment.
• The Climate/Connections Program: Read our statement on climate change, click here

Global Justice Ecology Project is also the fiscal sponsor of the Mobilization for Climate Justice (MCJ), a North America-based network of organizations and activists who have joined together to build a North American climate justice movement that emphasizes non-violent direct action and public education to mobilize for effective and just solutions to the climate crisis.

The Mobilization was founded to link the climate struggle in the US to the growing international climate justice movement, with an eye toward building for actions around the Copenhagen climate summit and beyond.  Its objective is to provide a justice-based framework for organizing around climate change that opens space for leadership by representatives of communities in the US that are most impacted by climate change and the fossil fuel industry.

In addition, Native Solutions to Conservation Refugees (NSCoRe) is a fiscally sponsored project of Global Justice Ecology Project.  The mission of Native Solutions to Conservation Refugees is to respond to Indigenous and local communities’ wishes when conservation and environmental factors threaten to displace them. NSCoRe is committed to the local communities providing the solutions, when possible.

http://www.gendercc.net/

The network gendercc – women for climate justice was kickstarted at COP9 in Milan(2003), when some organisations (LIFE, ENERGIA, WECF) invited to an informal meeting to discuss whether the issue ‘gender’ should be given more attention at climate change negotiations. There was a strong voice for further networking and cooperation in bringing gender into the debates. In order to support cooperation and to introduce the issue to a broader audience a website was created (www.gencc.interconnection.org – the website is not maintained any more).

Since then, there were regular side events and meetings at the following COP’s, followed by a growing interest in the network and in the issue gender and climate change.

A milestone was reached at COP13 in Bali, when the network published several position papers articulating the women’s and gender perspectives on the most pressing issues under negotiation. They were met with interest, increasing awareness, and increased expression of commitment to gender justice from a number of stakeholders.