We plan to work together to help national and local actors in all countries use Earth Observation (EO) to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG target 15.3). EO applications are at the cutting edge of LDN assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting. The GEO LDN Initiative is a unique stakeholder-driven initiative with a clear policy mandate from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

The purpose of this policy dialogue is to bring various stakeholders together to discuss the current and future needs of the end-users and decision-makers in order to develop an effective and coordinated initiative from the Earth observations and geospatial community to assist countries and other actors involved in implementing LDN in setting policy, planning and investment priorities among large and diverse land resource areas.

Programme

Welcome and Introduction (5 min)
Sasha Alexander, Policy Officer, UNCCD

Keynote Presentation (15 min)
Barron Joseph Orr, Lead Scientist, UNCCD
“What have we learned so far – and how far do we need to go”

Special Guest Presentation (10 min)
Antje Hecheltjen, Special Advisor, GIZ - the German Development Agency
“Design together with the user – Applying digital principles in Earth Observation for LDN”

Brief Interventions (5 min each)
Argyro Kavvada, NASA
Alex Held, CSIRO
Greg Scott, UN-GGIM
Chu Ishida, JAXA
Jonathan Ross, GeoScience Australia (tbc)
Omar Seidu, Statistics Ghana (tbc)

Open Discussion

Organizers

UNCCD

Contact

Sasha Alexander (salexander@unccd.int)