GFOI partner the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is inviting to a discussion session on how forest monitoring can catalyze change on the ground by informing policy-making and enabling better forest management.   Date: 14 October Time: 14:00-15:00 CEST Register here to participate   Diverse types of forest data and analyses contribute to solving problems in public policy and corporate activities. The FAO team has reviewed a large number of country cases to identify what types of forest monitoring are most suitable to inform decision-making and what constitutes an open window of opportunity for relevant information to enable change. Thinking about impacts that the right...

Únase al evento de Monitoreo de restauración de ecosistemas que se llevará a cabo el lunes 12 de octubre durante la Semana Forestal Mundial de la FAO - Catalizando un movimiento de restauración basado en la ciencia en el contexto de la Década de las Naciones Unidas para la Restauración de Ecosistemas: monitoreo y acción sobre el terreno - presentando una actualización del Grupo de Trabajo, y parte del trabajo innovador proveniente de los miembros del Grupo de Trabajo como WRI y Climate Focus sobre el GRO, ETH Zurich's Restor, UICN's Restoration Barometer, elementos socioeconómicos del monitoreo de restauración y...

Transforming food systems can deliver on a multitude of commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How we produce, process, trade and consume food products influences poverty (SDG 1), good health and well-being (SDG 3), greenhouse gas emissions and the ability to adapt to a changing climate (SDG 13), and biodiversity loss and deforestation (SDG 15)- to name just a few. However, the challenge of achieving healthy, sustainable and inclusive food systems lies in their complexity. Concerted and concurrent actions are required across both forestry and agriculture sectors. These challenges were explored during a World Forestry Week event, held alongside the Committee on Forestry (COFO).   Forest protection has long been a primary strategy to reduce forest conversion, but it has...

The UN-REDD Programme has announced a USD 2 million project supported by the Government of Norway that will help make mangrove sustainable management, restoration and protection an integral part of Myanmar’s efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as part of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The “Integrating mangroves into REDD+ Implementation in Myanmar” initiative, announced today at the 3 rd Mekong Mangrove Forum, focuses on tackling Myanmar’s destruction and degradation of mangrove ecosystems. This will help the country reach its climate mitigation targets within its NDCs and support livelihoods of mangrove forest communities. Myanmar is home to the third most...

Join our virtual event “Food systems transformation, land use and deforestation” to get an exciting overview of opportunities, challenges and actions to halt deforestation through innovative transformation of food systems. Taking place alongside the 25th Session of the Committee on Forestry, the event will be held as a part of the 7th World Forest Week hosted around the topic of “Forests and the SDG Decade of Action: solutions for climate change, biodiversity and people”. Date: Friday, 2 October 2020 Time: 12.00 – 13.00 CEST Languages: English, French and Spanish Webcast: http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/en/item/5392/icode/  Registration: https://bit.ly/3cL46ab  Concept note here     Format: A series of presentations highlighting major reports and country perspectives will be followed by...