“Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest): accelerating capacity-building, knowledge-sharing and awareness raising” is an ambitious project led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financed by the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
Building on its lessons learned and achievements, the second phase of CBIT-Forest is designed to enhance the quality, timeliness, accessibility and usability of forest-related data in developing countries, in line with the enhanced transparency framework (ETF) requirements of the Paris Agreement.
In focus
Uncertainty in estimating forest emissions: Introduction to Monte Carlo
19/03/2026
Deforestation makes a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and in order to achieve goals such as the 2015 Paris Agreement,...
Video
Florencia Guerra, National Forest Inventory Specialist (Belize)
30/03/2026
Florencia Guerra describes the evolution of Belize’s National Forest Inventory, which is based on permanent sample plots established in the early 1990s,...
Events
19/5
2026
20/5
2026
Third Meeting of Lead Reviewers of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR)
19/05/2026 - 20/05/2026
- Bonn, Germany
- UN Campus
- Transparency & Measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV)
- English
14/4
2026
16/4
2026
Global Transparency Community Meetings: Enabling data-driven progress on NDC 3.0 implementation
Naivasha (Kenya), 14/04/2026 - 16/04/2026
The CBIT-Forest II project will participate in the 2026 Global Transparency Community Meetings, to be held from 14 to 16 April 2026 in Naivasha, Kenya, under the theme “Transparency to Drive Effective Implementation of NDC 3.0”.
The event will bring together policymakers, transparency practitioners, Nationally Determined Contribution government focal points and climate experts from mor...
3/3
2026
8th Informal Forum of the Consultative Group of Experts
Hybrid Event, 03/03/2026
- Virtual event
- Bonn / Virtual
- UN Campus
- English
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