Estimating emissions and removals from forest degradation is important, though challenging, for many countries. Where forest degradation is a major source of emissions, governments want to cover it when reporting on their mitigation efforts. However, estimating emissions from forest degradation is hard. There are major challenges to accurately estimating emissions from...

Reducing deforestation and forest degradation and restoring and sustainably managing forests are critical pathways to meet the 2030 global goals. Since 1990, more than 420 million hectares of forest have disappeared. Although deforestation rates have slowed, 10 million hectares of forest are still lost every year. To address such challenges, the...

This case study summarizes the experience of the use of System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL) in Uganda by the National Forest Authority (NFA) and its integration into the National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS), as a result of a long-standing partnership that began...

El Sistema de observación de la Tierra, acceso a los datos, procesamiento y análisis para la vigilancia de la tierra (SEPAL) es un proyecto de código abierto que sirve y capacita a organismos gubernamentales, organizaciones de investigación, organizaciones no gubernamentales, empresas y círculos académicos para comprender mejor la dinámica de...

This report provides an overview of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) modalities for REDD+ reporting and additional technical Measurement, Reporting and Verification requirements from different standards for accessing jurisdictional REDD+ results-based payments, focusing on REDD+ reference levels and results reported, illustrating the choices countries have made...