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
GEO-LDN at UNCCD COP16 in Riyadh
27. January 2025
At UNCCD COP16 in Riyadh (2–13 December 2024), GEO-LDN showcased how geospatial data drives global land restoration. Through its Pavilion, multilingual workshops, and country use cases, GEO-LDN fostered collaboration among 10 countries and experts worldwide. Highlights included capacity-building, storytelling for land restoration, and the launch of a new Regional Dialogue Forum for Pacific SIDS.
#HowToLDN Team Peru
27. November 2024
The #HowToLDN series highlights the efforts of intersectoral country teams to implement their roadmaps towards Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). These teams have been supported by the GEO-LDN flagship program since our 2023 Global Dialogue Forum in South Africa. This post highlights Team Peru: Background Peru is the third largest country in South America, and its
#HowtoLDN Team Mongolia
21. November 2024
Today’s spotlight is on Mongolia, where over 76.9% of land is affected by desertification, driven by overgrazing, mining, and climate change. Team Mongolia’s roadmap to 2032 focuses on improved land use/land cover (LULC) mapping, identifying tree species for reforestation, and modeling future land use changes to guide data-backed policies. Restoration efforts in Dariganga and Eastern Mongolia use satellite tools like Sentinel-2 to monitor vegetation, sand movement, and protect habitats of Mongolian gazelles and white-naped cranes.
