In 2020, the CBIT-Forest team has organized a series of webinars to promote the importance of transparent and robust forest data:

• 15 July – Webinar “Open and transparent: forest data setting the course for a green future under the Paris Agreement”

A key pillar of the Paris Agreement is the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF), which aims to raise ambitions for climate action through transparent country reporting. The development of National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) with open and transparent data can enable action for forest and...

Date: 13 October

Time: 10 am Panama City time; 11 a.m. New York time; 5 pm Rome time; 10 pm Bangkok time

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A key pillar of the Paris Agreement is the Enhanced Transparency Framework which aims to raise ambitions for ...

Open Foris is an innovative, open-source software that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forests...

In Costa Rica, deforestation peaked in the 1980s; at that point in time the country had one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world.

However, according to the State of the World's Forests 2016, the country achieved a 5...

On World Youth Skills Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a new three-module 

Date: Wednesday 15 July

Time: 14:30 – 16:00 CEST

Platform: Zoom

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Forests underpin life on Earth. Globally, around 2.4 billion people or one third of the entire human population de...

It is often acknowledged that making decisions based on scientific evidence is good practice and that, therefore, ...

Uganda’s lush tropical jungles, rainforests, savannahs, lakes and rivers are home to an astonishing array of biodi...

Women and men frequently have differing roles, responsibilities and priorities in their use, knowledge and experience of forests. This knowledge can offer critical inputs to policy and field interven...

FAO today launched a new $7.1 million project supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to make forest data more accessible, transparent and available, and, in particular, help developing countries to meet the Paris Clima...

Three years ago, the Paris Agreement came into effect and with it, a global commitment to limiting the increase of the global average temperature. To meet this goal, countries have put forward their 

Scenes of flooding and storms can show us just how much weather and climate affects our lives. Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. The global response to climate change today will determine h...