AIM4Forests
| Country | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Brazil Colombia Democratic Republic of the Congo Ghana Guatemala Indonesia Kenya Papua New Guinea Peru Uganda Viet Nam Zambia |
|---|---|
| Start date | 21/04/2023 |
| End date | 21/04/2028 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Activities | AIM4Forests will work with 20 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean to institutionalize their National Forest Monitoring Systems and provide high-integrity Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) through modern monitoring technologies, novel learning approaches, and innovation. This will enable participation in emerging accounting standards and reduce global emissions from the forest sector, while strengthening agriculture, forestry, and other land-use contributions in national climate action plans to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts. Ensuring our forests are restored, protected, managed, and used sustainably will positively impact people and nature, contributing to the battle against climate change. |
| Impact |
Reducing deforestation and forest degradation, restoring forests, and sustainably managing forests are all critical pathways to meeting the 2030 global goals. Since 1990, more than 420 million hectares of forest have disappeared. Although deforestation rates have slowed, 10 million hectares of forest are still lost every year. World leaders have committed to halting deforestation and restoring more than 1 billion hectares of degraded land. However, progress has been hindered due to the lack of information at various levels. To address such challenges, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have launched AIM4Forests, a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well as the use of space data and remote sensing. The new programme is all about leveraging technical innovation to create data and information to inform the right courses of action to reduce deforestation and restore forests. AIM4Forests will leverage everything that technology and innovation offers such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In addition, it will also make sure that the capacity is transferred to countries, including IPs and local communities who manage the forests – only that way can we see real change. |
| More information: https://www.fao.org/in-action/aim4forests |