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. The project “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest),” aims to address these concerns and help countries meet their Paris Agreement goals and pledges by promoting the use of robust and transparent forest data.   A major component of the CBIT-Forest project is knowledge sharing, which is why identifying, documenting and disseminating case studies on forests and transparency, from countries establishing national forest monitoring systems (NFMS), is so important. Such case studies can serve as guides for other countries just beginning these processes or also for those that want...

On the 7th 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 Register in advance here The webinar “Forest data and free open-source solutions for Climate Action” will highlight the ways in which national forest monitoring systems (NFMS) support climate action, share experiences from Ghana and Papua New Guinea, and launch ARENA, FAO’s newest, free, open-source tool created with the support of the UN-REDD Programme to advance NFMS and other forest monitoring efforts. These themes will not only inform practitioners and other experts but...

The Paris Agreement was adopted at a 2015 international climate conference, galvanizing countries around the world to initiate drastic action to mitigate climate change. It also helped kickstart global recognition of the critical role of indigenous peoples in environmental governance, as their rights, needs, and knowledge are acknowledged in the agreement. To help track progress towards emission reduction goals outlined in this global agreement, countries have been developing and implementing National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS). To create NFMS, countries must recognize indigenous rights and learn to integrate traditional forest monitoring practices. FAO projects around the world are doing just this, as well as...

FAO and the government of Equatorial Guinea have launched the project “Enhancing Equatorial Guinea's institutional and technical capacity in the agriculture, forestry and other land-use sector for enhanced transparency under the Paris Agreement.” 2 June, 2021, Bata- Each year, the World Environment Day is commemorated around the world on the 5th of June. This year, to celebrate the occasion, under the global theme “Restoration of Ecosystems,” the project “Enhancing Equatorial Guinea's institutional and technical capacity in the agriculture, forestry and other land-use sector for enhanced transparency under the Paris Agreement” launched in Bata. This project has been funded by the Global Environment...

Over 850 forest and climate change professionals and students will connect for three weeks in the massive open online course (MOOC) “Forest and Transparency under the Paris Agreement.” The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) team up again for the upgraded edition of the MOOC. The MOOC has been developed in collaboration with the FAO eLearning Academy under the project “Building Global Capacity to Increase Transparency in the Forest sector (CBIT-Forest)”, funded by the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). By aiming...