• María J. Sanz (Basque Centre for Climate Change) - The role of forest information in addressing climate change
  
• Nikki Fitzgerald (Australian Government, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water) - Methods and Guidance Documentation Component
  
• Sara Goeking (US Forest Service) and Chris Barnes (US Geological Service) - Data Component - History, Overview and Current Priorities
  
• Thomas Harvey (GFOI) - Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) - Overview and Components
  

Country Sessions - Operational Systems

Side events Day 1

1. The Aim4Forests Programme and its approach to Country-Led Planning
   
   • Ellie Peneva-Reed (GFOI) - Country-Led Planning - Nationally Enabled Ambitions
     
   • Marieke Sandker (FAO) - Overview of Aim4Forests - Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests
     
   • Merceline Ojwala (Kenya) - Updating Reference level in Kenya
     
   • Rocio Condor (FAO) - Delivering results under AIM4Forests: SEPAL online facilitated course
2. Myths, realities, and solutions towards high-integrity forest carbon credits
3. Shifting the Climate for Women Engagement in Climate Action
   
4. GFOI R&D Priorities – Refinement and Current Developments
   

REDD+ 

• Kevin R Brown (Wildlife Conservation Society) - Realizing the promise of REDD
  
• Marieke Sandker (FAO) - Country progress in Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)
  
• Muri Soares (Mozambique) - Mozambique’s MRV Roadmap
  

Enhanced Transparency Framework

• Bob Kazungu (Ministry of Environment and Forest of Uganda) - Uganda’s Work towards Enhanced Transparency Framework
  
• Jenny Wong (UNFCCC Secretariat) - The Enhanced Transparency Framework: Overview of Key Elements
  

Launch of the GFOI Family of Resources

• Carly Green (Environmental Accounting Services) - GFOI Family of Resources - Process and Timeline
  
• Muri Soares (Mozambique) - Overview of Mozambique’s Involvement with the GFOR 
  

Side events Day 2

1. Forest and Land Monitoring for Climate Action, for and by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
   
   • Maricarmen Ruiz - Working with Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities on community-based forest monitoring
     
2. Deforestation Alerts (Best practices and applications)
   
   • Ake Rosenqvist (JAXA/soloEO) - Global Mangrove Watch – GMW Mangrove Loss Alerts
     
   • Ate Poortinga, Nyein Soe Thwal, Jack Kilbride, Karis Tenneson, Robert Kennedy, David Saah - SAR-based alerts in SERVIRSoutheast Asia
     
   • Erik Lindquist, Andreas Vollrath, Daniel Wiell - Near Real Time Alerts - SEPAL (sepal.io)
     
   • Johannes Reiche and team (University of Wageningen) - RADD alerts
     
   • Jorn Dallinga (WWF-NL) - GFOI Forest Foresight - Predicting deforestation
     
3. The IPCC Inventory Software to estimate GHG emissions and removals from forest land, and the 2 FAO add-ons for the Land Representation
   
   • Alfonso Sanchez Paus Diaz, Danilo Mollicone (FAO) - Land representation by Collect Earth - the Add-on with IPCC software
     
   • Erik Lindquist (FAO), Carly Green (Environmental Accounting Services), Inge Jonckheere (FAO) - IPCC Software Updates - Wall-to-wall Addon
     
   • Sandro Federici (IPCC) - Use of the IPCC Inventory Software for Establishing National GHG inventories in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector
     
4. Forest Observation Activities in China
   
   • Juan Suárez (UK) - New forest inventories in Britain using remote sensing and proximal data collection methods
     
   • Xin TIAN (China) - Cooperation project between China and Europe in Earth Observation on forest monitoring technology and demonstration applications
     
   • Yong Pang (China) - Forest resource and conservation benefits from ecological restoration programs in China
     
   • Zengyuan Li (China) - Forest and Grassland Types Mapping in China Using GF-1/6 Chinese Satellite Data
     
   • Zhao Dan, Zeng Yuan, Wu Fangming, Wu Bingfang (China) - Recent improvements of remote sensing based forest aboveground biomass estimation in China

Blue Carbon

• Haruni Krisnawati (Indonesia) - Indonesia’s Mangrove and Tropical Peatland Research and related carbon accounting
  
• Maria Nuutinen, Laura Villegas and Elisabet Rams, Marco Piazza, Lorena Hojas, Eva Ntara (FAO) - Wet linkages: Global Peatlands Initiative and mangroves
  
• Nikki Fitzgerald (Australia) - Blue Carbon - It’s like REDD+ … but Blue
  
• Raphael Linzatti (GIZ) - Management and Conservation of Blue Carbon Ecosystems (MACBLUE)
  
• Richard A. MacKenzie (US Forest Service) - Pacific Island Blue Carbon Knowledge Exchange Network
  

Ecosystem Restoration

• Julian Fox (FAO) - UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Overview and the Task Force on Monitoring
  
• Peter Nduati (Kenya) - Kenya – monitoring and reporting ecosystem restoration
  
• Yelena Finegold (FAO) - Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring - FERM and Target 2 of the GBF
  

Side events Day 3

1. Leveraging the NICFI Satellite Data Program to improve forest management and reporting
   
   • Anicia Brenda (Uganda) - Application of NICFI/Planet Data in Uganda
     
   • Charlotte Bishop (KSAT) - Providing Satellite Imagery of the World's Tropical Forests
     
   • Somphavy Keoka (Lao PDR) - Leveraging the NICFI Satellite Data Program to better monitor and report on forest cover change “The Example of Lao PDR“
     
   • Ximena María Herrera Jirón (Ecuador) - Aprovechando el Programa de Datos Satelitales del NICFI para mejorar la gestión forestal y la elaboración de informes - Ejemplo Ecuador
     
2. Improving the forest carbon market confidence with quality blue carbon credits
   
   • Daniel Murdiyarso (CIFOR-ICRAF) - Building BC market confidence
     
   • Noviar (Peatland Restoration and Mangrove Rehabilitation Planning) - Priorities in Mangrove Rehabilitation Program in Indonesia
     
   • Pablo Martin (FAO) - High-resolution satellite imagery to identify mangrove areas
     
   • Pham Thu Thuy (FAO) - Governing Blue Carbon for climate and social justice
     
3. Sample based approaches for forest monitoring
   
   • Anne Branthomme, Caroline Merle, Adolfo Kindgard, Ana Lourenço, Wai-Tim Ng, Rémi D’Annunzio, Aurélie Shapiro (FAO) - Global sample-based assessment of agricultural deforestation drivers
     
   • FAO - Ensemble Sample Based Area Estimation - An overview
     
   • Steve Stehman (State University of New York) - Guidelines for Evaluating Decisions of Sample-Based Area Estimation (SBAE)
     
4. Monitoring forest contributions towards national adaptation goals
   
   • Antonio Bombelli (GCOS Secretariat) - Global climate observations for adaptation monitoring
     
   • Bob Kazungu (Uganda) - Monitoring forest contributions towards national adaptation goals - Adaptation Monitoring in Uganda
     
   • Elisa Distefano (FAO) - Strengthening M&E for adaptation in the agriculture sectors: Country experiences
     
   • Inge Jonckheere, Antoine Libert, Amy Duchelle (FAO) - Forest Adaptation Monitoring - The Way Ahead