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Enabling Improved Forest Management and Reduced Deforestation and Degradation - GCP/GLO/537/NOR

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries represent about 10 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and pose a serious threat to global biodiversity, the livelihoods of millions of people, and key ecosystem services, such as the provision of clean water, materials, and prevention of soil erosion. Efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, encourage restoration, and mitigate the effects of climate change depend on accurate and precise estimates of land cover and land use changes. Countries have been tasked with creating national forest monitoring systems capable of producing reliable statistics on the status and trend of forest area to track progress against nationally determined carbon emissions targets. However, many countries lack such systems and the barriers to create them (such as cost, data, computing power, skill sets) are many. Against this background, the project aimed to assist 13 selected countries in gaining full access to necessary remote sensing data, and to provide the knowledge and tools to process this data in useful information for sustainable forest management and reporting, to enable improved forest management and reduced deforestation and degradation.

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