The SilvaCarbon Program supported a series of Universities to implement, together with selected Silvacarbon countries, emerging tools, and methods for measuring and monitoring forest carbon. These techniques and methods cover an array of critical issues in forest carbon monitoring, including detecting forest degradation – a key challenge for many countries – using remote sensing applications, ground monitoring applications, and a combination of data sources. This meeting aims to update SilvaCarbon's primary partners (USAID, USFS, USAID, State Department, World Bank) on the current research development, including challenges and diversions during the pandemic. The meeting intends to foster learning and collaboration through presentations and focused discussions. This meeting aims to identify priorities for potential future research and develop an action plan to improve the current methods and techniques deployed during the pandemic.

During the first day and a half, academics supported throughout SilvaCarbon presented their work status with countries and the desired outcomes. The second half-day focused on brainstorming how to reach out to the countries via e-learnings or other online mechanisms to minimize the impact of the pandemic on the delivery of the work done by Universities.