The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drives the development of a pre-competitive digital public infrastructure to support compliance on aspects of the trade regulations related to forest monitoring. This is a collaborative effort between partners and programmes such as the European Union’s Team Europe Initiative (TEI),...

This paper reviews how countries are benefiting from technical innovations in their monitoring and reporting of forest-related emissions and removals to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Forests play an important role in climate action. They are often mentioned in nationally determined contributions (NDCs) with targets conditional on...

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+), as well as greenhouse gas reporting for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector, requires land use changes to be characterized to estimate...

"Fomento de la capacidad global para aumentar la transparencia en el sector forestal (CBIT-Forest): acelerar el fomento de capacidades, el intercambio de conocimientos y la sensibilización" es un proyecto ambicioso liderado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), diseñado para acelerar los esfuerzos...

Integrating gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in forest and landscape restoration projects and programmes helps to ensure access to a diversity of knowledge; promotes the efficiency and effectiveness of these efforts; and incentivizes both women and men to contribute to restoration. This brochure is a tool to guide monitoring the...