This Joint Component meeting brought together NFMS representatives, MRV specialists and the forest monitoring research community to take stock of progress in diverse national forest monitoring systems, reflect on the lessons learned since the start of the GFOI forum, and reflect on how GFOI-supported activities have strengthened independent decision-making in the development of national forest monitoring systems. Participants also discussed persisting and emerging challenges, exploring how cross-component collaboration can be enhanced to address current gaps and unmet monitoring needs. This meeting also presented one of the latest Joint Component collaboration outputs: the Biomass Rapid Response Module, which provides good practice considerations, operational pathways, and a decision tree to guide countries in applying space-based biomass data to address MRV needs.

On this page you'll find a summary of the discussions during the event, as well as the presentation materials.