| Forest Cover 60 | December 2019 | русский
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This edition of Forest Cover [также доступно на русском
языке] focuses on the Belt Road
Initiative (BRI). BRI is the Chinese
government’s global development strategy to
revitalise the old Silk Road, linking China with
Asia and Europe by land, and a new Maritime Silk
Road, connecting China’s coastal regions to
Europe via Asia and Africa by sea. It is
expected to involve over US$1 trillion in
investments, largely in infrastructure
development for ports, roads, railways and
airports, as well as power plants and
telecommunications networks.
Direct
investments in infrastructure can cause harm to
forests and the Indigenous Peoples, local
communities and women that depend on them, and
the trade expansion that infrastructure
developments facilitate also brings significant
impacts. This is especially true where the
commodities being traded are drivers of
deforestation, most notably palm oil, beef, soy
and wood. Infrastructure developments and the
expansion of commodity trade also have
gender-differentiated impacts, where women
experience the consequences of them more
acutely, especially when they are members of
already-marginalised and vulnerable
communities.
In the articles that follow,
Global Forest Coalition members analyse the
impacts of BRI investments on biodiversity and
communities in their own countries, with case
studies on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and
Sri Lanka, and an alternative model of
development in
Georgia. You can download
the print version or read the articles
individually below. To subscribe to the
newsletter, please write to g...@globalforestcoalition.org.
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By Anna
Kirilenko, BIOM and GFC board member,
Kyrgyzstan
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By Kaisha Atakhanova,
Social EcoFund, Kazakhstan
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By Simone Lovera,
GFC, Paraguay
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By Hemantha Withanage,
Centre for Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka
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By Gizo Urushadze
Jr., Dzelkova, Georgia
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By Anatoly Lebedev,
BROC, Russia
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