Representatives from governments and international organizations working in Central America and Mexico 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 and Agriculture Organizatio...

Forests, and forest monitoring in particular, are critical to ensuring that countries stay on target with emission reduction goals within the framework of the Paris Agreement. A robust National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) can support the formulation, monitoring and adjustment of sub- and ...

Fewer than 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women, reflecting gaps in educational and professional opportunities that are holding back both gender equality and sustainab...

Five years into the Paris Agreement, much progress has already been made in efforts to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. Despite our progress, there is still a long way to go to achieve the goals set out by the Paris Agreement, and everyone needs to be a part of the solution...

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)...

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...

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”

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...

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  ...

A key pillar of the Paris Agreement is the Enhanced Transparency Framework which aims to raise ambitions for ...

Open Foris is an innovative, open-source software that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forests...

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...

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 

Date: Wednesday 15 July

Time: 14:30 – 16:00 CEST

Platform: Zoom

Fast registration HERE<...

Forests underpin life on Earth. Globally, around 2.4 billion people or one third of the entire human population de...

It is often acknowledged that making decisions based on scientific evidence is good practice and that, therefore, ...

Uganda’s lush tropical jungles, rainforests, savannahs, lakes and rivers are home to an astonishing array of biodi...