Land use: share of agriculture land, food production index, landcover transitions
Data source provider
World Bank/European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative Land Cover Project
Use cases
Climate-related disclosures, Exposure quantification, Financial stability monitoring, Investment and lending decisions, Macro-economic modelling, Scenario analysis, Stress testing
Data group
Biodiversity and forestry indicators
Metric Type
Physical vulnerability
Methodology/ Standard / Classification/ Taxonomy / Reference
World Bank/European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative Land Cover Project
Unit (e.g. CO2)
Change in share of landcover types (based on 12 landcover types)
Dimension (e.g. Sector, Customer)
By Country
Time horizon
Backward-looking
Frequency
Annual
Time series
1993-2020
Accessibility
Public
Observation on data availability/gaps
Landcover transitions provide a dynamic view on how land use in each country has changed over time. Instead of focusing solely on forest losses, transitions between land cover types can illustrate potential drivers and causes of deforestation. The Landcover Transition data shows how land cover types changed from year to year, based on 12 land cover types. The data is derived from a time series of consistent global land cover maps at 300m spacial resolution annual from the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative Land Cover (v2.0.7) project.