More than 150 experts from across the globe convened in Rome, Italy, from 25 to 28 November 2024 to enhance collaboration on forest monitoring efforts. The south-south knowledge exchange  emphasized collaboration on country-led planning; forest monitoring and measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) procedures; and forest monitoring for transparent commodity value chains.

The event was co-organized by the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) and its lead partner the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation's (FAO's) Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) programme, which is funded by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Attendees included representatives from many tropical forest countries spanning Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific.