The very first virtual GFOI Plenary was held from 7 to 9 September 2021 and was a great success. Thanks to the hundreds of colleagues who joined the event and stayed throughout the discussions. We covered some interesting topics, generated some interesting conversation and came up with some new ideas for how the GFOI community can collectively support tropical countries to better monitoring their forests and associated greenhouse gas emissions to inform their climate action and reporting. See you next year, hopefully in person!

 Publications

• GFOI Lessons Learned Study: Implementation of MRV Systems for REDD+ 
• Ten years of capacity development on NFMS for REDD+
• An assessment of National Forest Monitoring Capabilities for FRA

 Presentations

Day 1

• Julian Fox - Ten years of capacity development NFMS for REDD+
• Martin Herold - An assessment of data quality, data sources and changes in national forest monitoring for the global forest resources assessment 2020
• Robert de Ligt, Philippa Lincoln - Lessons Learned from the Implementation of MRV Systems for REDD+

Day 2

• Nikki Fitzgerald - Component Consultations “Reconsidering the MGD Component
• Sara Goeking - Data Component and Component Consultation - Reconsidering the Data Component
• Inge Jonckheere, Sylvia Wilson - Capacity Building Component: work during the pandemic and way forward
• Martin Herold, Sarah Carter, Frank-Martin Seifert - Reconsidering the R&D Component
• Martin Herold, Sarah Carter, Frank-Martin Seifert - GFOI R&D Coordination Component

Day 3

• Alfred Rungol - REDD+ and MRV in Papua New Guinea
• Manuel Estrada - Intro to Verra´s monitoring requirements for REDD+
• Felipe M Casarim - Architecture for REDD+ Transactions

 Video recordings