The crucial roles of women, youth, and Indigenous peoples in forest conservation | COP30

17/11/2025

Theme: Amazon Basin Day: Regional perspectives on forests in NDCs, SFM, Indigenous Peoples’ leadership, forest-climate-biodiversity-land synergies, youth and local community solutions

Time: 10:00am – 10:50am (UTC-3)

Brazilian Presidency of the Latin American and Caribbean Forest Inventories Network | Forest information | COP30

13/11/2025

Theme: Forest information

Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm (UTC-3)

Open Foris Arena user meeting: project examples and updates on the latest development

12/11/2025

Agenda (in Central European Time)

World Café on Support for ETF Reporting and Capacity-Building 18/CMA.5 and 21/CMA.6 - Part I - Mandated event

Belém (Brazil), 10/11/2025

The workshop will be convened in-person and in world café format, with an aim to enable interactive exchange of views and discussion among Parties as well as with the GEF and its implementing agencies. The event is open to all SB 63 participants. National transparency experts and national focal points who are involved in transparency-related activities are strongly encouraged to attend the work...

31st Session Asia-Pacific Forestry Commissio

Chiang Mai (Thailand), 04/11/2025 - 07/11/2025

The 31st Session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission will be hosted by the Royal Forest Department of Thailand.

43rd Session of the European Forestry Commission and Istanbul Forest Innovation Week

İstanbul (Türkiye), 22/10/2025 - 25/10/2025

Created in 1947, the European Forestry Commission (EFC) is one of six Regional Forestry Commissions established by FAO to provide a policy and technical forum for countries to discuss and address forest issues on a regional basis. It meets every two years.

GFOI Plenary 2025

Hybrid Event, 21/10/2025 - 23/10/2025

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), together with the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry, are pleased to announce that the GFOI Plenary 2025 will take place from 21–23 October 2025 in Bali, Indonesia, and online. To attend the plenary in person or online, please

Young Forest Champions: Indigenous and Rural Youth in Action

Hybrid Event, 15/10/2025

In the context of the World Food Forum flagship event, 10-17 October 2025, the side event "Young Forest Champions: Indigenous and Rural Youth in Action" will be held both online and in the German Room at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, on <...

2nd Meeting of Lead Reviewers of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR)

23/09/2025

The Second Meeting of Lead Reviewers of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) under the Enhanced Transparency Framework will take place on 23 September 2025.

Global Transparency Forum 2025

03/09/2025 - 05/09/2025

The global climate transparency partners CBIT-GSP (funded by GEF, implemented by UNEP and executed by UNEP-CCC), UNDP, FAO, UNFCCC, ICAT and PATPA are jointly organizing the second Global Transparency Forum to provide a space for countries, development partners, and transparency practitioners to exchange experiences, reflect on lessons from the first BTR submissions, and explore how transparenc...

GFOI Information Exchange 2025

03/09/2025 - 04/09/2025

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is pleased to announce the 2025 series of information exchanges. Three teleconferences will be held with focus on countries and organizations in major tropical forest regions of the world: Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

These exchanges provide an opportunity for GFOI partners to update the community ...

International forestry students’ symposium 2025

16/08/2025 - 30/08/2025

Event Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifss2025indonesia/

Event website: https://ifsa.net/ifss-2025/

The intervention on 26 August 2025 had 77 attendees (45 women and 32 men).

Regional Training on Geographic Information System (GIS), Forest Inventories, and Open Foris Tools

14/07/2025 - 18/07/2025

Organized by the FAO–Türkiye Forestry Partnership Programme, this regional training aims to strengthen technical skills in forest data collection and spatial analysis. The training is implemented under the project “Improving Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry (GCP/SEC/025/TUR)” in collaboration with the CBIT-Forest II Project.

The training will introduce participants to Geograph...

Forest Data Without Borders: Knowledge Exchange on National Forest Inventories and Forest Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

07/07/2025 - 11/07/2025

Second In-Person Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean National Forest Inventory Network

Visit of GLOFOR and IFSA students to FAO’s Forestry Division

19/06/2025

As part of their educational trip to Rome, a group of 20 to 25 forestry students from the Global Forestry Master’s Programme, the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA), and the University of Padua will visit FAO’s Forestry...

Workshop to facilitate the sharing of experiences of developing country Parties in preparing their first biennial transparency reports

18/06/2025

This workshop is designed to enable an interactive exchange of views among the Global Environment Facility and its implementing agencies and Parties. The event is open to all participants of the 62nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SB 62). National transparency experts and national focal points who are involved in transparency-rel...

Institutionalization of forest data: Online facilitated course

Virtual Event, 07/05/2025 - 06/06/2025

Master the foundations of sustainable forest monitoring! Hosted by the FAO elearning Academy, this course explores the importance of institutionalizing a robust national forest monitoring system (NFMS) with a focus on transparency, sustainability and data sharing.

AIM4Forests: Two years of progress, a new chapter for restoration

Hybrid Event, 22/04/2025

Two years after the launch of AIM4Forests on Earth Day 2023, join us as we celebrate the remarkable strides made in forest monitoring and restoration—and unveil the next frontier in ecosystem stewardship. At Earth Day 2025, the FAO Forestry Division and our partners will showcase how innovative monitoring tools have empowered countries to detect deforestation, reduce forest degradation, and dri...

Technical Workshop on adaptation activities under the Enhanced Transparency Framework

08/04/2025

A workshop on adaptation activities under the ETF was organized in Tashkent in the context of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) national project. The workshop was a joint effort by the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of Uzbekistan, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), t...

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a Development Agenda

Virtual Event, 26/03/2025

This joint United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) online course offers a holistic and integrated approach to climate change, and demonstrates the interlinkages and interdependencies between sustainable development and climate change to make informed policy choices towards carbon-neutral and climate-resilient sustainabl...