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National Forest Monitoring Systems

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This platform provides an overview of National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS), along with downloadable tools for NFMS.

The Land Accelerator

The Land Accelerator
The Land Accelerator is a platform for entrepreneurs that provides a free four-month program and curated network for entrepreneurs who restore degraded forests and farmland.

Global Forest Observations Initiative Inventory of Activities

Global Forest Observations Initiative
The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has unveiled a new portal for tracking international capacity development support to developing countries in forest monitoring. The GFOI Inventory of Activities provides easy-to-access information on the assistance being delivered by the international community to developing countries to improve their forest monitoring capabilities.

EX-Ante Carbon Balance Tool (EX-ACT), version 8

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) is an appraisal system that provides estimates of the impact of agriculture and forestry development projects, programmes, and policies on the carbon-balance. The carbon-balance is defined as the net balance from all greenhouse gases (GHGs) expressed in CO2 equivalent that were emitted or sequestered due to project implementation as compared with a business-as-usual scenario.

The Global Opportunity Explorer

Sustainia, DNV GL, the UN Global Compact

The Global Opportunity Explorer is a joint project formed by Sustainia, DNV GL, and the 

Supply Chain Solutions Center

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
The Supply Chain Solutions Center is a digital hub for sustainability resources, best practices, thought leadership and news – filtered to help businesses bring sustainability to every node of their consumer packaged goods supply chain. The library currently focuses on six areas: agriculture, energy, chemicals, waste, forests and freight.

FAO - Open Foris: Free open-source solutions for environmental monitoring

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient data collection, analysis and reporting.

Global Forest Watch: Forest Monitoring Designed for Action

Global Forest Watch (GFW) by the World Resources Institute (WRI) offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people and policymakers to better protect forests.

Drought Stress Testing Tool

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Global Canopy Programme (GCP), Emerging Markets Dialogue on Finance (EMDF)

Financial institutions and environmental experts from across the globe have partnered in a project to develop a set of environmental risk stress tests that measure the credit worthiness of bank loans.

One Planet Network

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), One Planet Network

The Global SCP Clearinghouse is a one-stop hub dedicated to advancing Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) worldwide.