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7 January 2020 | Ukraine publishes land cover and land change accounts

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Ukraine published 2000-2015 land cover and land change accounts 2000-2015 onlineThis is an outcome of the project's vocational training on environmental accounting of land, which took place at the CIRAD from 2 to 6 September 2019. The land accounts are based on land cover data prepared for the training by European experts. The land cover data sets are based on the Copernicus Global Land Cover and international/national data sources.   

The land cover and land cover change accounts are produced following the EEA LEAC / UN SEEA  methodology to monitor the land degradation in a natural capital approach and report to SDG indicator 15.3.1 in Ukraine. The land accounts are based on land cover data prepared by the EU and Ukrainian experts and making full use of the new Copernicus Global Land Cover.