Following the workshop "South-South Exchange on Carbon Emissions Estimation and Carbon Markets" hosted in Colombia in May 2024, a working group of several countries in Latin America are coming together to discuss the task of accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in accordance with established carbon standards, a prerequisite for...

The Vanuatu Department of Forestry seeks to develop in-house capacity to generate activity data for their emissions calculations for both the historical and performance period. This hands-on training instructs on the use of the SEPAL cloud computing platform to conduct time-series analysis and map land use change continuously over time....

Scion and ForestSAT welcome you to Rotorua, New Zealand, from 9 to 13 September 2024 for the Association for Forest Spatial Analysis Technologies Conference.

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Information sharing call is a closed event to engage a larger group of experts from lead partner organizations in focused discussions.

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Information sharing call is a closed event to engage a larger group of experts from lead partner organizations in focused discussions.

The global event Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G 2024) will be hosted in Belém, Brazil from 1 to 8 December 2024.

GEO Week 2021 conference 22-26 November 2021 Register here   The GEO work programme will be presented during the week Many activities are related to this year's milestones in the global policy agenda: - 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the...

Date: Nov 17, 2021 Time: 02:30 PM CET Register here GFOI's partner FAO is organizing a webinar to highlight the importance of forest monitoring to support climate action. FAO’s national forest inventory (NFI) online training modules will be launched. The modules  facilitate NFIs design and implementation and support forest data analysis for...

When: Sunday 7 November, 16:00-19:00 GMT Where: CitizenM Hotel, 60 Renfrew St, Glasgow G2 3BW, United Kingdom Reserve your spot here  GFOI Lead partner the Norwegian Ministry of Climate & Environment, through its International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) together with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), Planet and Airbus, are organizing the event...

Date: 5 November 2021   Time: 14:15 - 15:30 CET   Webcast     Where: Glasgow, Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Side Event Room Loch Lormond, Zone D GFOI's partners will join the side event on REDD+ organized by the UNFCCC Secretariat on 5 November 2021, at 14:15 - 15:30 CET. Recognizing the significant contribution of the forest sector to...

Date: 20 October 2021 Time: 3:00 PM in Brussels Register here   GFOI’s partner the European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting everyone to join the launch of the first global land cover map for 2020 at 10 m resolution based on Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 data. The new baseline land cover product has been developed by the...

GEO workshop on Climate Policy and Finance 21-23 September 2021 virtual event   This week, GFOI’s umbrella organization, the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is hosting the virtual event “Earth observations for climate ambition” from 21 to 23 September 2021. The workshop will look at how Earth observations (EO) are supporting national climate action and...