Upcoming Events
Geneva, Switzerland
Turning coordination into impact: Delivering coherent country support across agriculture, land and biodiversity, 11:45 – 13:00, Tuesday, 26 May, Room Obasi.
GEO-LDN Flagship
The GEO Land Degradation Neutrality Flagship (GEO-LDN) is a stakeholder-driven initiative that was launched in 2018 during the GEO Week in Kyoto, Japan, responding to a request by the UNCCD’s Conference of the Parties (COP13). It brings together Earth observation data providers and governments to develop minimum data quality standards, analytical tools and capacity building needed to strengthen land degradation monitoring and reporting, using remote sensing and data collected on site.
GEO-LDN helps governments to access the necessary datasets and tools to prioritize interventions, monitor outcomes to manage land better and to report on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 15.3.1 (Decision 9/COP.13).
The LDN Toolbox is a user-oriented entry point to a suite of analytical tools, datasets and methods for land use planning towards land degradation neutrality. The workflow of the toolbox is structured according to the typical 5 phases of an integrated land use planning cycle, as presented in a report of the UNCCD Science-Policy interface on “The contribution of integrated land use planning and integrated landscape management to implementing Land Degradation Neutrality: Entry points and support tools”.
Latest News
Workshop: Climate Change in LDN Planning
30. April 2025
On 29–30 April 2025, a workshop on integrating climate change into Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) planning was held at the GIZ headquarters in Bonn, Germany. The event was organized by Conservation International (CI) in collaboration with GEO-LDN and supported by GIZ.
01 Newsletter 2025
1. April 2025
The road beyong UNCCD COP16: Sharing the first GEO-LDN Newsletter of 2025!
The Road to a PhD in Sustainable Land Management
25. March 2025
In 2023, the GEO-LDN Flagship established an international postgraduate program focused on land degradation neutrality (LDN) at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Ghana.
