Overview

Open Foris Free open-source solutions for environmental monitoring

Over 200,000 individual users from more than 196 countries benefit from FAO’s Open Foris initiative to measure, monitor, and report on forestry progress, take science-based actions, and accelerate forest pathways: Halting deforestation, Restoration, and Sustainable Production.

Open Foris offers various platforms for data gathering, analysis, and reporting, facilitating cost-effective and accurate monitoring of forest cover and other land covers, thus accelerating the development of operational National Forest Monitoring Systems.

Impact on the ground

Over 13.6 billion tCO2 of forest emission reductions or enhancements have been reported to UNFCCC between 2006-2023.

Technical innovation, demonstrated by FAO's Open Foris and platforms, like Collect Earth and SEPAL, has enabled over 90% of UNFCCC submissions during the last 10 years, enabling accurate forest measurement, monitoring, and reporting. 70% of the countries have received Technical Assistance from FAO.

60 countries submitted a reference level (it means 84 submissions)

21 countries submitted REDD+ results through 30 BUR technical annexes (or 35% of countries with reference level)

What 13.6 billion tCO2 (or 0.85 billion tCO2/year on average) for results achieved means?

That is more than the annual GHG emissions from the transport and buildings sectors combined
That is more than the annual GHG emissions from the US, India and the European Union combined.