In the past decades, deforestation and forest degradation accounted for about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions showing that the mitigation of global warming cannot be achieved without the implication of forest contributions in international agreements. At 2007 Bali UNFCCC meeting (COP-13), an agreement was reached on “the urgent need to take further meaningful actions to reduce emissions…
Forests store large amounts of carbon and need accurate allometric regressions for their estimation. Generally, this estimation of biomass is done through destruction of trees and construction of allometric relationships. Implications linked to destruction makes that in many forest ecosystems true data are lacking, resulting to on site data not available for climate change models and other models…
Professional training and capacity building aim at providing to our clients (government, municipalities, public and private companies, national and international NGOs) training that will be adapted to their needs. These trainings will allow them to better manage and coordinate their resources to reach the goals of combining suitable management of natural resources with green economy while increasing the outputs. Therefore, IFED professional and capacity building will not only focus on the sustainable management of the resources…
Protected areas are locations that receive protection because of their recognised natural, ecological and/or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection. There are over 161,000 protected areas in the world representing between 10 and 15 percent of the world’s land surface area. Protected areas are essential for biodiversity conservation. They are the cornerstones of virtually all national and international conservation strategies…
Remote Sensing Technology in combination with Geographic Information System provides reliable information on land use change, land use dynamics, etc. The progress made in remote sensing and GIS these recent years have made that there is a lot of applications in forestry. The applications range from the creation of thematic maps, monitoring …
Remote Sensing Technology in combination with Geographic Information System provides reliable information on land use change, land use dynamics, etc. The progress made in remote sensing and GIS these recent years have made that there is a lot of applications in forestry. The applications range from the creation of thematic maps, monitoring …
In order to contribute to this global effort to recover the initial state of our ecosystems, IFED is organizing this conference a day after Earth Day in order to sensitize our society for a true partnership so that much more committed actions are taken to effectively allow the restoration of ecosystems.
