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, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese.FAO developed the elearning course in close collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The self-paced elearning course is available free of charge and is certified through the digital badge certification system.This FAO e-learning course is open to anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of the importance of forest-related data collection, analysis and dissemination to meet...

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” To combat climate change and its impacts, the Paris Agreement was signed by 195 countries representing their commitment to limit the rise of the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius. In order to build confidence in the process, the Paris Agreement includes a key element referred to as the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) for action and support. CBIT-Forest project...

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 climate. In light of the climate emergency, it is time to scale up efforts toward accurate, open and transparent forest data, to catalyse higher ambitions under the Paris Agreement. The new FAO webinar “Open and Transparent Forest data: Innovation and Technology for Climate Action” will highlight global and national efforts’ on forest monitoring that support the implementation...

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  here Link: https://fao.zoom.us/j/98867103022?from=msft (password: 377368) Language: Spanish Forests are home to 80% of the world's terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects. Today, however, this biodiversity is seriously threatened and millions of hectares of forests are lost every year. Community forest management (CFM) is one of the most promising solutions to finding a compromise between the preservation of nature and economic development. Currently, CFM is a strategic alternative that must be promoted and upscaled in order to conserve, sustainably manage and use natural resources, as well as to improve livelihoods...

A key pillar of the Paris Agreement is the Enhanced Transparency Framework which aims to raise ambitions for climate action through transparent country reporting. For forests, open and transparent data has enabled forest and climate action under REDD+ through the development of National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS). In light of the climate emergency, it is time to scale up efforts toward accurate, open and transparent forest data, to catalyse higher ambitions under REDD+ and the Paris Agreement.   A multi-purpose NFMS can provide transparent, reliable, relevant, accessible and sustainable forest data as articulated in FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines for National Forest Monitoring. The...