GS-III: Economy, Environment, S&T
Land degradation and ecological restoration
Not met yet — counts as met once you answer a question on it.
Productive capacity lost to water or wind erosion, salinisation, waterlogging, nutrient depletion, or vegetation loss — each process degrades land differently and demands a different remedy, so a saline field and an eroded hillside are not one problem. Land degradation neutrality frames restoration as an accounting balance: gains offset against continuing losses, making any area figure meaningless without its baseline. That baseline is supplied chiefly by the satellite-derived Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas.