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DocumentOther documentFrom projects to landscapes: FAO/WRI tools for monitoring progress and impacts of Forest and Landscape Restoration
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Restoring degraded lands is a key strategy for mitigating climate change, improving ecosystem health, and sustaining goods and services for people and planet. As part of the Bonn Challenge, New York Declaration on Forests, and other international initiatives, countries are encouraged to collectively restore at least 350 million hectares of degraded lands. Also, 2021-2030 has just been declared the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Monitoring restoration progress is important for ensuring that restoration activities stay on track to meet local and global goals. Monitoring also provides evidence for communicating successes, which will attract further investments for restoration projects, thereby scaling up efforts. In this context, WRI and FAO have jointly developed a series of tools to help with monitoring restoration. First is a guidebook for practitioners on discussing objectives and impacts and deciding which indicators to consider for monitoring their restoration projects, entitled The Road to Restoration: A Guide to Identifying Priorities and Indicators for Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration. Alongside this publication, the organizations prepared an e-learning course within the FAO e-learning academy and a web application called AURORA (Assessment, Understanding and Reporting of Restoration Actions), which facilitate the decision-making process and support users is selecting desired impacts and their indicators, setting up their goals, and monitoring progress. To complement this process, the publication Mapping Together: A Guide to Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration using Collect Earth Mapathons was produced to help project managers organize data collection events that establish baselines and monitor progress focusing on biophysical indicators. Here, we briefly present the FAO/WRI set of tools that will facilitate monitoring at different stages and will contribute to more robust monitoring and reporting processes. Keywords: Monitoring and data collection|Landscape management ID: 3623051 -
DocumentOther documentConsolidating the national monitoring capacity of the impact of forest and landscape restoration actions on CO2 sequestration
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) initiatives grew significantly in the past 10 years in Lebanon, highlighting the strong commitment of the Lebanese Government and stakeholders to restoration of forests and landscapes as attested by the National Afforestation/Reforestation Plan and the National Forest Program launched respectively in 2012 and 2015. ”The Paris agreement in action” project funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry of the Environment (BMU) offered the ministries of agriculture and environment the chance to analyze key national restoration actions and their impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reductions. A specialized tool that enables both ministries to estimate the past and future impact of restoration actions was developed. The ability to project the impact of restoration actions (e.g. afforestation, forest and rangeland management, etc.) on GHG emissions/reductions will be helpful to line ministries in planning their restoration actions and encouraging national stakeholders to adjust theirs. This work revealed the leading FLR activity was reforestation/afforestation (5228 ha), whereas forest (1389 ha) and rangeland (1755 ha) management did not receive the attention they warrant. The management of forests and rangelands urgently needs to gain prominence as a lower cost option that favors a wide range of ecosystem services. Finally, the effort done to assess the role of FLR on GHG emissions/reductions allowed for appropriate integration of FLR activities in Lebanon’s National Determined Contribution (NDC). Keywords: Forest and Landscape Restoration, GHG emissions/reductions, National Determined Contribution, Monitoring and data collection, Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) ID: 3486829 -
MeetingMeeting documentStatus of the collaborative drylands’ restoration initiative – Guidelines for resilient forest landscapes in drylands. Introduction to the workshop.
Dakar second international workshop. 25-18 February 2013
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BookletHigh-profileFAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 2022The FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 was endorsed by FAO Council in June 2022. This new strategy replaces the previous strategy from 2017 to better FAO's climate action with the Strategic Framework 2022-2031, and other FAO strategies that have been developed since then. The Strategy was elaborated following an inclusive process of consultation with FAO Members, FAO staff from headquarters and decentralized offices, as well as external partners. It articulates FAO's vision for agrifood systems by 2050, around three main pillars of action: at global and regional level, at country level, and at local level. The Strategy also encourages key guiding principles for action, such as science and innovation, inclusiveness, partnerships, and access to finance.
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DocumentOther documentGlobal Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2020 Philippines - Report 2020
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookGlobal Forest Resources Assessment 2025 2025FAO completed its first assessment of the world’s forest resources in 1948. Since then, the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) has evolved into a comprehensive evaluation of forest resources and their condition, management and uses, covering all the thematic elements of sustainable forest management. This, the latest of these assessments, examines the status of, and trends in, forest resources over the period 1990–2025, drawing on the efforts of hundreds of experts worldwide. The results of FRA 2025 are available in several formats, including this report, an interactive story on key findings and an online database at https://fra-data.fao.org.