Videos
FAO elearning Academy: Empowering Global Forest Monitoring
06/12/2024
Svenja Bunte, Programme Manager and Senior Policy Advisor in the International Forest Unit (REDD+), UK Government, highlights the progress achieved under the FAO elearning Academy through UK-funded initiatives like the Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) program.
Deforisk: Innovating deforestation risk mapping for climate action
17/09/2024
Deforisk is a cutting-edge solution developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with financial support from the AIM4Forests: Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests programme and in collaboration with the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD).
Brazilian Forest Service objectives: Interview with Marcus Vinicius Alves, Deputy Director-General
17/09/2024
Marcus Vinicius Alves, Deputy Director-General from the Brazilian Forest Service, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, discusses the current objectives of the Brazilian Forest Service. He highlights innovative solutions used in forest monitoring, and the important role of Indigenous Peoples.
National Forest Inventory: Online facilitated course
18/06/2024
Accurate forest data from National Forest Inventories is vital to country efforts to protect, restore, and sustainably manage their forests. Our online facilitated course explores the essentials of National Forest Inventory, from planning, implementation and reporting. Register and start your learning experience today at https://bit.ly/NFIregistrationform
E-learning series: Forest Monitoring for Climate Action
06/06/2024
This series of multilingual, self-paced e-learning courses aims to strengthen institutional and technical capacities and meet measurement, reporting and verification requirements, as well as the enhanced transparency framework requisites. Register and start your learning experience today at https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=1000
Open Foris ARENA – a new tool for easy and efficient forest data collection and analysis
09/07/2021
Arena is an open-source technical solution enabling forest data collection, storage, management and analysis. Open Foris is a suite of open-source solutions that can be tailored to fit user’s needs, from field data collection to satellite image classification. With the addition of this new platform, the analysis and reporting of forest data is more efficient and flexible than ever before.
Forests and Transparency under the Paris Agreement
15/03/2021
This educational video is aimed at raising awareness on the importance of forest data collection, analysis and dissemination under the Paris Agreement, focusing on the establishment of the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) and National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS).
Insight into the Global Forest Resources Assessment process
03/03/2021
Forests cover nearly one-third of land on Earth. They shelter most of the planet’s biodiversity, help fight climate change and are a source of vital products and services. Reliable information on the status of forest resources is crucial to halting deforestation and managing forests wisely. The Global Forest Resources Assessments is the most comprehensive assessment of the world’s forests.
Enhancing forest monitoring in local communities: voices from Colombia
19/09/2019
This video was produced by the UN-REDD Programme in Colombia, Acandi, on community monitoring of forests, with COCOMASUR.
Building capacity to enhance transparency - CBIT
08/11/2017
The Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) aims to strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of developing countries to meet the transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement. Discover how this can help your country: https://www.thegef.org/CBIT