A Seven-Country Assessment of National Capacities to Track Forest Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Removal

This briefing identifies critical technical capacity gaps in forest carbon monitoring across seven countries (Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Thailand). Key needs include more frequent data updates, consistent monitoring methods, higher spatial resolution imagery, regular national forest inventories, harmonized sub-national data collection, and improved inter-agency data sharing.

• The assessment of seven countries identifies several fundamental technical capacity needs for forest carbon monitoring to track the effectiveness of national forest policies. These needs include establishing more frequent data updates to understand forest change trends, ensuring consistent monitoring methods for data comparison, and improving spatial resolution in areas where mid-resolution satellite imagery cannot detect key drivers of forest change.
• To enable accurate estimates of carbon dioxide emissions and removals, the assessed countries require the regular establishment or updating of national forest inventories. Additionally, there is a need for training programs and protocols to harmonize sub-national data collection, as well as improved data management and sharing between government agencies to integrate forest change data with tenure, permitting, and land use information.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). A Seven-Country Assessment of National Capacities to Track Forest Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Removal. https://www.wri.org/research/seven-country-assessment-national-capacities-track-forest-carbon-dioxide-emissions-and

Chicago

World Resources Institute. A Seven-Country Assessment of National Capacities to Track Forest Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Removal. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/seven-country-assessment-national-capacities-track-forest-carbon-dioxide-emissions-and.

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@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendsevencountry, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{A Seven-Country Assessment of National Capacities to Track Forest Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Removal}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/seven-country-assessment-national-capacities-track-forest-carbon-dioxide-emissions-and}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }