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Forest and climate practitioners worldwide to upscale forest monitoring for climate action
11/12/2020
Over three hundred national representatives, experts and students worldwide have completed the two-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement”. The MOOC was jointly developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...

FAO elearning course on transparent forest data for the Paris Agreement – with digital badge certification
06/12/2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is excited to announce that the elearning course “Forest and Transparency under the Paris Agreement” is now available in all six UN languages: Arabic...

Open, transparent and accessible: CBIT-Forest webinars in 2020
18/11/2020
In 2020, the CBIT-Forest team has organized a series of webinars to promote the importance of transparent and robust forest data:
- 15 July – Webinar “Open and transparent: forest data setting the course for a green future under the Paris Agreement”

Join our webinar “Open and Transparent Forest Data: Innovation and Technology for Climate Action”
28/10/2020
A key pillar of the Paris Agreement is the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF), which aims to raise ambitions for climate action through transparent country reporting. The development of National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) with open and transparent data can enable action for forest and...

Join our webinar "Exchange of Community Forest Management Experiences in Latin America"
07/10/2020
Date: 13 October
Time: 10 am Panama City time; 11 a.m. New York time; 5 pm Rome time; 10 pm Bangkok time
Please register ...
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Towards accurate, open and transparent forest data
25/09/2020
A key pillar of the Paris Agreement is the Enhanced Transparency Framework which aims to raise ambitions for ...

Open Foris: Innovative, free and open tools and platforms catalysing climate action
24/09/2020
Open Foris is an innovative, open-source software that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forests...

National Monitoring System for Land and Ecosystem Cover and Use Contributes to Climate Action in Costa Rica
23/07/2020
In Costa Rica, deforestation peaked in the 1980s; at that point in time the country had one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world.
However, according to the State of the World's Forests 2016, the country achieved a 5...

Open and transparent: forest data setting the course for a green future under the Paris Agreement
20/07/2020
On World Youth Skills Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a new three-module

Deforestation continues globally, if at a slower pace
15/06/2020
Forests underpin life on Earth. Globally, around 2.4 billion people or one third of the entire human population de...

From data to decisions: How countries link forest monitoring into policy-making
03/06/2020
It is often acknowledged that making decisions based on scientific evidence is good practice and that, therefore, ...

Mapping forest degradation using remote sensing data in Uganda
20/05/2020
Uganda’s lush tropical jungles, rainforests, savannahs, lakes and rivers are home to an astonishing array of biodi...

CBIT-Forest Inception Workshop takes place in Rome
16/03/2020
A one-day inception meeting of the FAO/GEF project ...

Gender at the forefront of National Forest Monitoring Systems
13/03/2020
Women and men frequently have differing roles, responsibilities and priorities in their use, knowledge and experience of forests. This knowledge can offer critical inputs to policy and field interven...

Helping countries better monitor and report on forest and land-use under the Paris Climate Agreement
17/02/2020
FAO today launched a new $7.1 million project supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to make forest data more accessible, transparent and available, and, in particular, help developing countries to meet the Paris Clima...

How a Robust National Forest Monitoring System Can Boost Transparency under the Paris Agreement
16/02/2020
Three years ago, the Paris Agreement came into effect and with it, a global commitment to limiting the increase of the global average temperature. To meet this goal, countries have put forward their