FAO elearning course on transparent forest data for the Paris Agreement – with digital badge certification

06/12/2020

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, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese.
FAO developed the elearning course in close collaboration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The self-paced elearning course is available free of charge and is certified through the digital badge certification system.
This FAO e-learning course is open to anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of the importance of forest-related data collection, analysis and dissemination to meet the Enhanced Transparency Framework requirements set within the Paris Agreement. The target audience include heads of national forest authorities or ministries, climate or forestry officers, and students in forestry and environmental sciences.
Learners can access the course online or download it on their computers. The course consists of three 30 minutes lessons and covers:

the important role forests play in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement;
changes needed to move towards the transparency framework under the Paris Agreement, and how they could be addressed in the forest sector;
the principles and elements which guide the design and operation of a sustainable National Forest Monitoring System;
the importance of the National Forest Monitoring System to meet the requirement of the Modalities, Procedures and Guidelines of the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

The course is available as a global public good through the FAO elearning Academy. In order to progress talents within organizations and increase employment opportunities the Academy has adopted the Digital Badges Certification System, which certifies the acquisition of competencies. A certification issued by FAO upon passing the final scenario-based performance evaluation test is now incorporated into the elearning courses. Badges are an official recognition of competencies acquired and are part of the professional profile of learners, who can then incorporate them in their Linkedin, e-portfolio, curriculum on the web, for employment purposes, education, or lifelong learning.
The FAO elearning course was developed under the project “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)” funded by the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
Learners may also wish to access the FAO elearning course “SDG indicators 15.1.1 and 15.2.1 - Forest area and sustainable forest management”, which offers a digital certification badge, or other forest-related courses in the portfolio of over 350 multilingual elearning courses offered by the FAO elearning Academy.

Boosting transparency of forest data

FAO elearning course on transparent forest data for the Paris Agreement – with digital badge certification