Countries are working to advance forest monitoring for emissions and removals measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). The objective of MRV is typically to quantify the country’s contribution to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and to gain access to climate finance. The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is facilitating...

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Research and Development (R&D) Coordination Component is hosting the third session of its virtual GFOI R&D Exchanges, “Insights on degradation and regrowth: From research to reporting,” on 30 June 2025 from 16.00 to 18.00 CEST (GMT +2.00). Space is limited – register here to secure your spot. The GFOI...

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), together with the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, are pleased to announce that the GFOI Plenary 2025 will take place from 21–23 October 2025 in Bali, Indonesia, and online. To attend the plenary in person or online, please register here. The GFOI Plenary is the major...

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) partners will be hosting a side event at the 23rd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP 23) in Bonn, Germany, entitled ‘Improving productivity and conservation through land use monitoring in the Pacific Islands’.  The side event is being co-hosted by two of the GFOI lead partners: The...

The Fifth R&D Expert Workshop took place on 7-10 June 2016 in Mexico City, Mexico. It was organised by GOFC-GOLD incollaboration with CONABIO, SilvaCarbon and focused on regional solutions to forest type stratification and characterising the foreststate for national forest monitoring and carbon emissions reporting (REDD+ MRV and LULUCF).

The Third R&D Expert Workshop was organised in collaboration with GOFC-GOLD, CSIRO and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN). It took place 24-26 February 2015 in Brisbane, Australia, and was focused on remote sensing approaches for strong vegetation biomass estimation.

The Second R&D Expert Workshop took place on 1-3 October 2014 in Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was organised in collaboration with GOFC-GOLD and was focused on forest degradation.

The First R&D Expert Workshop was held at the Woods Hole Research Centre, USA on the 10-11 June 2014 focusing on sensor interoperability and complementarity.