This week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) publicly released a wealth of learning materials about forest monitoring under the Paris Agreement. By meeting the needs of many professionals to learn at their own pace, this initia...

On 17 November 2021, join the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the international, technical webinar, “Mind the gap: addressing National Forest Inventory capacity needs to support climate a...

Thanks to financial support from UN-REDD, a new platform has been added to the Open Foris family. L...

This week a group of international experts and practitioners met virtually during a global knowledge sharing webinar “Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action”. This event focused on the ways in which forest monitoring supports climate action, and it further highlighted co...

Despite international commitments and agreements, deforestation and forest degradation continue to affect ecosystems around the world. This ongoing threat exacerbates climate change and negatively impacts countries, communities and individuals. Th...

On the 7^th of July, join us for our technical webinar, “Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action.”

Date: Wednesday, 07 July 2021

Time: 14:30 – 16:00 Rome time, CEST

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FAO and the government of Equatorial Guinea have launched the project “Enhancing Equatorial Guinea's institutional and technical capacity in t...

Bonn, Germany. 11 May 2021 – Today, 14 global entities launched a renewed effort to increase data-driven climate action around the world. With the decisive UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK only six months away, the #Data4BetterClimateAction campaign aim...

With their ability to absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere, forests play a crucial role in combating climate change. For this reason, forest monitoring activities can ensure that countries stay on target with emission reduction goals outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. To track progre...

Strengthening the institutional and technical capacities of Cuba in the sectors of agriculture, forestry and other land uses to improve transparency under the Paris Agreement, is the purpose of a new project in Cuba, financed by the Global Fund for the Environment (GEF), in association w...

By Rocío Cóndor-Golec, Örjan Jonsson, Sara Maulo, Anssi Pekkarinen, and Cosimo Togna

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) is unveiling the language adaptations of our innovative open data platform on forests. Fi...

Follow the conversation with Anssi Pekkarinen and Julian Fox from U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and 

Course timeline: 24 May 2021 – 11 June 2021 

Developed under the project “Building Global Capacity to Increase Transparency in the Forest sector (CBIT-Forest),” in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Conventio...

Over the last decade, many countries have come to recognise forests as assets that require up-to-date data to monitor status and changes over time. Nowadays, forest data has become an indispensable foundation for informed decision-making on a wide range of issues, including reporting on climat...

Forests play a pivotal role in combating climate change by absorbing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. Forest monitoring is critical to ensuring that countries stay on target with emission reduction goals within the framework of the Paris Agreement. Robust and easy-to-access forest data ...

Autoridades nacionales y funcionarios FAO participaron en el taller de inicio del proyecto: Fortalecer capacidades institucionales y técnicas en los sectores agropecuario y forestal de Nicaragua para responder a los requerimientos del marco de transparencia reforzado bajo el Acuerdo de París (...

The adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 sparked the design and implementation of climate-centered projects at global, national, and even local scales. Among these projects is ‘Building global capacity to i...

Representatives from governments and international organizations working in Western and Central Africa will gather in a virtual workshop on 11 and 23 March to consolidate linkages between forest-related reporting processes in the region.

Organized by the Food a...