Technological innovation driving transparent forest monitoring and reporting for climate action

21/03/2024

This paper reviews how countries are benefiting from technical innovations in their monitoring and reporting of forest-related emissions and removals to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Forests play an important role in climate action. They are often mentioned in nationally determined contributions (NDCs) with targets conditional on international climate finance.

Good practices in sample-based area estimation

14/02/2024

This paper seeks to enable donors, academia, and countries that currently use or want to use sample-based area estimation (SBAE) for generating activity data for REDD+ or for other national or international reporting purposes, to delve into current good practice and existing literature, as well as gain a better understanding of the most pressing research needs in the area. The paper moreover will give non-experts an overview of area estimation, as well as its applications and limitations.

Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests

04/05/2023

AIM4Forests is a five-year programme that aims to support forest monitoring based on modern monitoring technologies and technical innovation, as well as the use of space data and remote sensing.

Estimating emissions and removals from forest degradation: An overview of country experience

02/05/2023

This booklet provides an overview of the methodological options available to countries to address these challenges while collecting the emerging experience of dozens of countries that have already reported on emissions from forest degradation internationally. The authors attempt to summarize country experiences in estimating carbon stock changes from forest degradation and their methodological options.

National Forest Inventories of Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards the harmonization of forest information

20/07/2021

This publication represents a milestone in the beginning of the harmonization process towards data transparency within the forestry sector in Latin America and the Caribbean and constitutes the first collaborative effort of a network of NFI experts and collaborators in the region.