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Land cover and land cover change

The land cover dataset provides a global assessment of land cover and land cover change to monitor pressures on ecosystems and biodiversity. By using geospatial data with high spatio-temporal resolution, it develops a set of internationally comparable indicators with a long time series and a five-year interval from 2000 to 2022 for the Climate Change Initiative Land Cover dataset, and from 1975 to 2030 for the Global Human Settlement Layer dataset. Please see the <a href="https://doi.org/10.1787/441a7a6c-en">working paper</a> for a more complete description of the methods.

<br></br>The dataset has a global coverage on the national level, while on the sub-national TL2 level (i.e. large subnational regions) results are reported for all OECD countries as well as for Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. The following country aggregates are included: Euro area, European Union, Advanced economies, Emerging market economies, G7, G20, OECD, OECD Europe, OECD Asia Oceania, OECD Americas, the LAC region and the World.

<br></br><b>Data source(s)</b>: <a href="https://www.esa-landcover-cci.org/">Climate Change Initiative</a> land cover data and <a href="https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/data.php">Global Human Settlement Layer</a> built-up area data.

<br></br><b>Contact</b>: <a href="ENV.Stat@oecd.org">ENV.Stat@oecd.org</a>

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