Using land-cover information to monitor progress on Sustainable Development Goal 15

This course seeks to provide a basic understanding of land-cover data and its use for monitoring progress towards the achievement of international agreed goals, such as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15, with a practical focus on its Indicators 15.3.1 (proportion of land that is degraded over total land area) and 15.4.2 (including its sub indicators: Mountain Green Cover Index and Proportion of degraded mountain land).

Source: FAO E-Learning

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