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FAO and the government of Equatorial Guinea have launched the project “Enhancing Equatorial Guinea's institutional and technical capacity in t...

Bonn, Germany. 11 May 2021 – Today, 14 global entities launched a renewed effort to increase data-driven climate action around the world. With the decisive UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UK only six months away, the #Data4BetterClimateAction campaign aim...

With their ability to absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere, forests play a crucial role in combating climate change. For this reason, forest monitoring activities can ensure that countries stay on target with emission reduction goals outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. To track progre...

Strengthening the institutional and technical capacities of Cuba in the sectors of agriculture, forestry and other land uses to improve transparency under the Paris Agreement, is the purpose of a new project in Cuba, financed by the Global Fund for the Environment (GEF), in association w...

By Rocío Cóndor-Golec, Örjan Jonsson, Sara Maulo, Anssi Pekkarinen, and Cosimo Togna

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) is unveiling the language adaptations of our innovative open data platform on forests. Fi...

Follow the conversation with Anssi Pekkarinen and Julian Fox from U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and 

Course timeline: 24 May 2021 – 11 June 2021 

Developed under the project “Building Global Capacity to Increase Transparency in the Forest sector (CBIT-Forest),” in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Conventio...

Over the last decade, many countries have come to recognise forests as assets that require up-to-date data to monitor status and changes over time. Nowadays, forest data has become an indispensable foundation for informed decision-making on a wide range of issues, including reporting on climat...

Forests play a pivotal role in combating climate change by absorbing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. Forest monitoring is critical to ensuring that countries stay on target with emission reduction goals within the framework of the Paris Agreement. Robust and easy-to-access forest data ...

Autoridades nacionales y funcionarios FAO participaron en el taller de inicio del proyecto: Fortalecer capacidades institucionales y técnicas en los sectores agropecuario y forestal de Nicaragua para responder a los requerimientos del marco de transparencia reforzado bajo el Acuerdo de París (...

The adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 sparked the design and implementation of climate-centered projects at global, national, and even local scales. Among these projects is ‘Building global capacity to i...

Representatives from governments and international organizations working in Western and Central Africa will gather in a virtual workshop on 11 and 23 March to consolidate linkages between forest-related reporting processes in the region.

Organized by the Food a...

Representatives from governments and international organizations working in Central America and Mexico will gather in a virtual workshop on 11 and 23 March to consolidate linkages between forest-related reporting processes in the region.

Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organizatio...

Forests, and forest monitoring in particular, are critical to ensuring that countries stay on target with emission reduction goals within the framework of the Paris Agreement. A robust National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) can support the formulation, monitoring and adjustment of sub- and ...

Fewer than 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women, reflecting gaps in educational and professional opportunities that are holding back both gender equality and sustainab...

Five years into the Paris Agreement, much progress has already been made in efforts to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. Despite our progress, there is still a long way to go to achieve the goals set out by the Paris Agreement, and everyone needs to be a part of the solution...

Over three hundred national representatives, experts and students worldwide have completed the two-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Forests and transparency under the Paris Agreement”. The MOOC was jointly developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is excited to announce that the elearning course “Forest and Transparency under the Paris Agreement” is now available in all six UN languages: Arabic...