Alex Zvoleff, Senior Director of Resilience Science at Conservation International (CI) and co-lead of GEO-LDN Working Group 3, delivered a supplementary remark at the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Expo 2024 in Bangladesh.
He emphasised that tackling land degradation is essential for credible climate adaptation planning. A critical “piece of the puzzle” for countries striving for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) is first knowing and mapping degraded land, which requires reliable data.
With GEF support in 2016, CI developed Trends.Earth, a free, open-source tool that has been central to LDN monitoring. As a member and partner of GEO-LDN, Alex and CI continue collaborating with the Flagship to help Parties use Earth observation for LDN.
Watch Alex’s full intervention:
