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), 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 Vanuatu Department of Forestry seeks to develop in-house capacity to generate activity data for their emissions calculations for both the historical and performance period. This hands-on training instructs on the use of the SEPAL cloud computing platform to conduct time-series analysis and map land use change continuously over time....

GFOI partner SilvaCarbon is leading the workshop "Exchange on voluntary carbon markets and the interaction with national reporting" from 12 to 14 August 2024 at the headquarters of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Reston, Virginia, USA. The meeting will focus on the challenges and solutions to notable case studies to develop guidance...

Following the workshop "South-South Exchange on Carbon Emissions Estimation and Carbon Markets" hosted in Colombia in May 2024, a working group of several countries in Latin America are coming together to discuss the task of accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in accordance with established carbon standards, a prerequisite for...

SERVIR – Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Hub and SilvaCarbon are collaborating with the Forest Research and Training Centre to deliver the second training on biomass mapping with the use of terrestrial and satellite lidar data.

The 27th Session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) will bring together high-level representatives, heads of forest services, government officials and partner organizations to identify emerging policy and technical guidance, seek solutions and advise on future strategy and action. It will be held in conjunction with the 9th World Forest Week (WFW 2024)...

The US Forest Service International Programme organized this workshop to enable countries in the Congo Basin to share their experiences on the establishment and operationalization of their national forest monitoring systems (NFMSs) and outline plans for implementing country-led processes.