Highlights
- Open access to global forest data is critical for saving the world’s forest systems and forest monitoring practitioners can integrate information into climate policies.
- The project targeted an existing global network of National Correspondents for the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2020 from at least 187 countries and territories.
- The project collected lessons from supporting national governments in Côte d’Ivoire, Honduras, Guatemala, Uganda, Thailand, Brazil, and Laos in developing in enhancing the usability of global forest-related data in support of the transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement.
About CBIT-Forest project
Forests play a fundamental and multi-functional role in meeting the global objectives of the Paris Agreement. They contribute significantly to climate change mitigation through their carbon sink and carbon storage functions.
Forests also reduce vulnerability and enhance the capacity of people and ecosystems to adapt to climate change and climate variability, as well as the negative associated impacts which are becoming increasingly evident in many parts of the world.
In order to support the capacity development of countries, and to promote environmental integrity, transparency, accuracy, completeness, comparability, and consistency of forest data, the CBIT-Forest project was launched at the end of 2019.
Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest) is a project led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financed by the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) aimed to strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of developing countries to collect, analyze and disseminate forest data.
Forest open data impact
The CBIT-Forest project supported the free flow and sharing of knowledge and open data information through the already existing knowledge networks, including the CBIT Coordination Platform and the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) through three components:
- Boosting countries’ institutional capacity by scaling up knowledge exchanges and raising awareness of the importance of forest-related data;
- Increasing countries’ technical capacity: for data collection, analysis, and dissemination of open forest-related data; and
- Enhancing knowledge sharing to improve coordination and cooperation.
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