On 26 February, delegates from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation of Myanmar (MONREC), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) gathered in Rome for a 5-day long national forest inventory (NFI) session hosted by FAO REDD+/NFM team. The session provided a platform to share knowledge and experiences in developing a robust national forest inventories focusing on the specific characteristics of Myanmar’s forests. Myanmar has the second-largest forest cover of land area in Southeast Asia. Recognising the forests’ ability to contribute to climate change mitigation and poverty reduction, the Government of Myanmar is...

投资于和应用林业监测手段的国家在其计划取得更大的成功，增加造林，造林和森林恢复。 砍伐森林是由人类活动驱动的，而是通过创新的技术来预测和监测土地利用变化，国家会更好的装备，以阻止其蔓延。在最近的一次国际会议“跨部门工作，制止砍伐森林和扩大森林面积 - 从吸入到行动”，与会者分享了在基于卫星的土地利用监测，以及地面测量的创新和经验。投资于并应用这些工具的国家更广泛地在其计划取得更大的成功，增加造林，造林和森林恢复。 一个特别的工具萼片（系统对地观测数据访问，处理和分析对土地监测）具有使政策制定者和当地社区，以克服对本地互联网连接不足或低运算能力的主要障碍在森林监测和报告了关键作用。萼片，开放FORIS倡议和粮农组织 - 谷歌合作的一部分，是易于使用粮农组织和挪威促进地球观测数据免费接入平台共同开发。 罗马会议，由森林合作伙伴关系组织在其总部由粮农组织主办，由跨部门汇集了从业者和专家们提出各种观点，并讨论旨在制止砍伐森林和增加森林覆盖可能的解决方案。 联系粮农组织林业官员  埃里克·林德奎斯特以获取更多信息。 更多信息： 媒体发布 REDD +和国家森林监测系统 跨部门工作，制止砍伐森林和扩大森林面积 - 从吸气到行动

International climate negotiations have identified the need to establish national forest monitoring systems that use a combination of remote sensing and ground-based forest inventory approaches. This is to estimate anthropogenic forest-related greenhouse gas emissions by sources, and removals by sinks, to support REDD+ implementation and assess performance when implementing REDD+ activities. Countries and jurisdictions are advancing in the development of their Reference Levels to measure the performance of their REDD+ related activities. Countries have to generate forest cover change information in order to estimate activity data. The activity data combined with Emission Factors allows to estimate (historical) emissions. FAO and through...

In recent years, climate change actions have played a unifying role in connecting nations in the common pursuit of utilising forests for the benefit of humankind. This role was emphasized during the International Conference “Halting Deforestation and Increasing Forest Area – from Aspiration to Action” that took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome on 20-22 February 2018. Organized by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, the conference brought together decision-makers from governments, UN agencies, private sector stakeholders as well as representatives from indigenous peoples, local communities, NGOs and academia to discuss the challenges of halting and reversing deforestation and to jointly explore ways...

Science and gender equality are both crucial to a country’s development and essential to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. FAO offices across the world are taking active measures to encourage female applicants and to recruit women, and REDD+ is no exception. There are many women working in various scientific areas related to REDD+, continuously contributing to reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation in countries around the world and eventually mitigating climate change. On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February, we talked to Naila Yasmin, a remote sensing and GIS analyst from Pakistan,...