With support from a diverse range of actors and stakeholders, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has designed and implemented a national forest monitoring system (NFMS) to promote sustainable forest management. Establishment of the country's NFMS is expected to produce high-quality, reliable forest and land cover data, track progress of REDD+...

The aim of this paper is to inform countries about recent developments in the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of REDD+ activities under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It provides an update on submissions on forest reference (emission) levels (FREL/FRLs) and REDD+ results reporting; a summary...

Efforts on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) have created opportunities for forest monitoring capacity development and have also aimed to inform forest management and policy-making. This paper explores how forest monitoring can inform problem-solving, especially in public policy.

Starting in 2015, the Government of Costa Rica has been developing a national system for monitoring land cover, land use and ecosystems- SIMOCUTE. SIMOCUTE constitutes the official platform for the integration and management of environmental data and information at national scale. This case study provides an overview of the progress Costa Rica...

This publication provides an overview of "Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest),” a two-year project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) financed by the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).