The Plenary of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) was held at FAO headquarters last month to boost forest monitoring in tropical countries and further action on climate change. More than...

The Global Remote Sensing Survey of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) worked with local forest conservation experts to interpret satellite imagery and understand changes in...

The new package brings together ten years of resources developed through the Global Forest Observations Initiative. The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has launched the GFOI Family of Resources (GFoR),...

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Global forest monitoring community gathers together in Rome  From May 9th to May 11th, 2023, the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will host the...

Exciting news to mark Earth Day! The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Kingdom today launched AIM4Forests, a five-year programme designed to accelerate country capabilities...

 Attendees can now plan their participation in the Global Forest Observations Initiative’s flagship event. The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has released the agenda, side events and exhibition booths schedules for...

An online facilitated course on SEPAL will take place from 24 March to 7 May 2023. Registration for the course will open on 30 January. The course is open to all...

Caribbean countries and FAO experts met last week in Bridgetown, Barbados, at the premises of the United Nations House to kick off the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 data collection....

SilvaCarbon in collaboration with university partners has implemented a series of e-learning modules that provides partners free-access to relevant and useful content focused on specific forest monitoring tasks and associated...

The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, (FCPF), is contributing US$500,000 to the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), which supports developing countries to establish forest monitoring systems, to help secure results-based...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking information and recommendations for the development of a new tool to measure the impact of activities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)...

An infographic to learn more about the collaboration among the U.S. SilvaCarbon Programme and SERVIR Global.

A study associated estimates on tropical deforestation and agriculture from 2011 to 2015 and found that at least 90% of deforested land occurred in landscapes where agriculture drove forest loss,...

GFOI's leading partner Norway entered into a new climate and forest partnership with Indonesia. The agreement recognizes Indonesia's results in reducing deforestation and supports its efforts. With over 92 million hectares...

Check out this article by FAO's authors to learn how how digital innovation has transformed the way we monitor the world’s forests and progress towards the Sustainable Forest Goals 13...

The fifth edition of the Living Planet Symposium (LPS22) took place from 23 to 27 May in Bonn, Germany. Over 5000 scientists and researchers gathered to discuss the latest findings...

ForestSAT 2022 will take place from 29 August to 3 September, 2022, at the Freie University, Berlin, Germany. Please submit your application via https://www.conftool.org/forestsat2022/ by 31 May, 2022. ...

COP26 has been defined by many as “the Forest COP”. Check out our compilation of announcements and pledges related to forests, including by GFOI’s partners.

GFOI’s partner the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) in cooperation with UNFCCC launched a new portal to help countries access data and guidance from space agencies to implement the...