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Stay up to date with the latest news and announcements on FAO’s work to halt deforestation, forest degradation and emissions. Here you will find updates on new initiatives, key milestones, and important information from countries and partners working together for forests, climate and sustainable development.
New initiative promotes the role of social forestry in climate mitigation
08/07/2022
Forests provide natural solutions to the global climate, health, biodiversity and food crises. Consequently, countries around the world are implementing programs and actions to halt deforestation and conserveand restore forests...
Carbon rights and the importance of benefit sharing
08/06/2022
Catalyzing change with gender-responsive, climate-forest finance
Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about forest tenure, carbon rights also determine who can benefit,...
A community forestry model that works
08/06/2022
In Colombia’s municipality of Segovia, in the department of Antioquia, on the eastern edge of the Andes, lies one of the country's great gold reserves, most of which lie under...
Forests hold the key to a greener future
08/06/2022
Forests have become a permanent fixture in climate discussions, from their inclusion in the Paris Agreement to the recent Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on Forests and Land Use at COP26. These ecosystems provide vital solutions...
West African stakeholders discuss approaches to mainstream gender in the forestry sector with the support of FAO
31/05/2022
More than 50 stakeholders participated in an online meeting focused on Gender and Forestry organized by FAO with the support of ECOWAS and Sida in the framework of the project...
XV World Forestry Congress in review: REDD+ Engagement
27/05/2022
The XV World Forestry Congress was held this year in Seoul, South Korea from 2-6 May. Jointly organized by the Korea Forest Service (KFS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization...
Making sense of the complex solutions to agriculture-related deforestation
24/02/2022
The global rate of deforestation was estimated to be 10 million hectares per year between 2015 and 2020, with nearly 90 percent of forest loss between 2000 and 2018 driven by agricultural expansion. A...
A new momentum: next steps on COP26 forest tenure commitments
23/02/2022
The recent 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) resulted in several widely hailed agreements between member states including the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on...
Financing forest solutions at scale – Role of climate finance in scaling up forest positive supply chains
23/12/2021
The global rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares per year from 2015-2020. In tropical and subtropical countries, 73 percent of deforestation is attributable to agricultural expansion. Despite several countries successfully reducing
FAO explores due diligence processes that reduce deforestation from agriculture
07/12/2021
Agricultural production more than tripled between 1960 and 2015. While the productivity-enhancing technologies of the Green Revolution partially decoupled increased production from cropland extension, recent decades have still seen increased use of land