GFOI

 Attendees can now plan their participation in the Global Forest Observations Initiative’s flagship event. The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has released the agenda, side events and exhibition booths schedules for the GFOI Plenary 2023. Attendees can now plan their participation in the event, which will take place between 9-11 May...

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 and will be delivered in English, French and Spanish. Modules: - Institutionalization of forest data- Introducing SEPAL for forest and land monitoring-...

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. Read more here.

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 technical challenges. The courses are now available on OpenMRV. - Continuous Degradation Detection (CODED) of Forests in Tropical Countries - Sampling-based Estimation...

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 finance for the reduction of emissions caused by deforestation and degradation (REDD+). The funds will support the GFOI Office, which is...

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) emissions from Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU). USAID is particularly interested in technical input on the feasibility and ease...