Notícias
Mantenha-se atualizado com as últimas notícias e anúncios sobre o trabalho da FAO para travar a desflorestação, a degradação das florestas e as emissões. Aqui encontrará informações sobre novas iniciativas, marcos importantes e aspetos relevantes de países e parceiros que trabalham juntos pelas florestas, o clima e o desenvolvimento sustentável.
Liberia getting ready to measure its REDD+ actions
05/04/2018
On 7 March 2018, a team of technical experts gathered at the FAO Office in Monrovia to discuss the design of the first National Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL) of...
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring now available as an ebook
27/03/2018
FAO's publication Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring can now be downloaded free as an ebook from iTunes, Amazon or Smashwords. Available in three languages, the ebook can be read online...
Guarding the planet’s carbon treasure - three countries sign the Brazzaville Declaration
22/03/2018
When we talk about carbon stocks, we often talk about forests. At the same time, often-overlooked peatlands represent one of the largest stores of carbon on the planet. With the...
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Together for smarter forests: Myanmar, Finland and FAO REDD+/NFM experts exchange knowledge on national forest inventories
19/03/2018
On 26 February, delegates from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation of Myanmar (MONREC), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) gathered...
Innovative technology: a game-changer for monitoring deforestation and land-use change
05/03/2018
Deforestation is driven by human activity, but by using innovative technologies to predict and monitor changes in land use, countries will be far better equipped to halt its spread. At...
Lessons learned from accuracy assessments of emission factors and biomass maps in relation to REDD+
01/03/2018
International climate negotiations have identified the need to establish national forest monitoring systems that use a combination of remote sensing and ground-based forest inventory approaches. This is to estimate anthropogenic...
Liberia’s REDD+ strategy - to protect forests means to protect its people
21/02/2018
In recent years, climate change actions have played a unifying role in connecting nations in the common pursuit of utilising forests for the benefit of humankind. This role was emphasized...
Women and men in science and technology: Naila Yasmin talks about her career path as a remote sensing and GIS analyst at FAO
20/02/2018
Science and gender equality are both crucial to a country’s development and essential to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. FAO offices across the world are taking active measures to encourage...
Protection of the upside-down forest - monitoring and sustainable use of the Cerrado
19/02/2018
When talking about deforestation in Brazil we often focus on the Amazon. But not everyone knows that just on the Amazonian border lies its often forgotten neighbour — the second...
Assessing forest degradation in Ethiopia using cutting edge tools
18/02/2018
How can a country tackle assessing forest degradation if it doesn’t have historical field data? Enter SEPAL (System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring), a...