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...

Held 18 June 2025 from 12:00 to 13:15 CEST in the context of the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 62), the side event "Use of global data sets in national GHG reporting" will focus on Earth Observation (EO) data and derived global information used in countries' greenhouse gas (GHG) and nationally determined contribution (NDC)...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a Lead partner of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), is hosting an expert workshop with Purdue University under the AIM4Forests programme to advance the use of AI-driven technologies in forest growth monitoring and carbon mitigation. The workshop will focus on...

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Research and Development (R&D) Coordination Component is hosting the second session of its virtual GFOI R&D Exchanges, "Monitoring tropical peatlands and mangroves", on 18 February 2025 from 14.00 to 15.30 CET (GMT +1.00). Space is limited – register here to secure your spot. The GFOI R&D Exchanges are an online series...

The Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency – Global Support Programme (CBIT-GSP) is pleased to invite you to attend the webinar “A closing conversation with FAO - CBIT- Forest Phase II: Growing from past experience, innovating for the future” on 12 February 2025, 11.00-12.30 CET. Register here! Through a conversation with the FAO-CBIT...

Partners of the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) will be at the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU24) for the session "Land cover change and its impacts in GHG fluxes" taking place from 13.40 to 17.30 GMT+1 on 12 December 2024. The AGU24 is held from 9 to 13 December 2024 in Washington, D.C.,...

The global event Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G 2024) will be hosted in Belém, Brazil from 1 to 8 December 2024.