Led by the National Forestry Commission of Mexico (CONAFOR) and with the Mexico REDD+ Project and the UN-REDD Programme’s support, Mexico has worked to design and establish its REDD+ National...

A delegation of the Royal Government of Cambodia visited their counterparts of Ecuador for an intensive and productive REDD+ exchange mission that took place from 4-14 December 2017. The aim...

A new paper has been published in Springer Nature’s Environmental and Ecological Statistics journal on emission factor estimators used for large-area forest inventories. Written by Luca Birigazzi, Javier G. P....

A new research paper in the Global Change Biology journal has been published on forest biomass, productivity and carbon cycling along a rainfall gradient in West Africa, providing the first...

Drawing on successful pilot REDD+ initiatives supported by the UN-REDD Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Nepal and Viet Nam, the International Centre...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

El Programa ONU-REDD organizará el próximo 18 de abril un webinar sobre las experiencias y lecciones aprendidas de México, Colombia y Ecuador en la elaboración de sus sistemas y resúmenes...

The UN-REDD 2018-2020 programme includes a knowledge component dedicated to REDD+ actions, the rights of indigenous peoples and forest tenure. During the 17th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum...

In case you haven’t heard of it yet, there’s a place to go when you face a challenge related to forest governance in your REDD+ -related work.    With 494 members...

More than 1,200 participants from government, business, civil society and the research community gathered on 23–25 April in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to take part in the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS)...

With the objective to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhance carbon sequestration from afforestation and reforestation activities, the Government of Bangladesh is developing the Forest Reference Level...