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...

Mozambique is the first country to receive payments from the World Bank administered Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund for its efforts for reducing emissions from deforestation. Through the FCPF’s...

The GEO-TREES initiative, a new action of the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO), is hiring a Project Coordinator. GEO-TREES supports the establishment and development of a global activity of...

GFOI partner the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) is launching a new online course on forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement and you’re invited! The massive...

Norway's Ministry of Climate and Environment, via the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) is issuing a call for proposals to grant advanced access to high resolution satellite data....

Forest monitoring capacities have improved in the tropical countries that received international support in the last 10 years. This is one of the key findings of the first global study on...

Following the launch in 2020 of the third English edition of the Methods and Guidance Documentation (MGD3.0), the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is pleased to announce that MGD3.0 is...

21 March is the International Day of Forests and this year’s theme is “Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being”.  To help mark the day GFOI Leading partner the FAO...