Topic 1.2.1: a. Area under land cover categories Area By location FAO Land Cover ▪ ▪ By type of land cover (e.g., artificial surfaces Classification System ▪ Land cover including urban and associated areas; herbaceous System of ▪ crops; woody crops; multiple or layered crops; grassland; tree-covered areas; mangroves; Accounting areas; shrubs and/or herbaceous (SEEA) Central vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded; sparsely Framework (2012) natural vegetated areas; terrestrial barren land; land cover categories permanent snow and glaciers; inland water European ▪ bodies; and coastal water bodies and inter-tidal Environment Agency areas)(a) (EEA) National ▪ Sub-national ▪ Topic 1.2.2: a. General ecosystem characteristics, extent and By location Millennium ▪ ▪ pattern By ecosystem (e.g., forest, cultivated, dryland, Ecosystem ▪ Ecosystems coastal, marine, polar, inland water, island, Assessment 1. Area of ecosystems Area and mountain)(b) Convention on ▪ biodiversity 2. Distance Proximity of ecosystem to areas and Biological Diversity cropland (CBD) b. Ecosystems' chemical and physical characteristics UN Economic ▪ 1. Concentration Nutrients Commission for 2. Concentration Carbon Europe 3. Concentration Pollutants Standard Statistical Classification of Flora, Fauna and Biotopes (1996) Convention on ▪ Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat (the Ramsar Convention) c. Biodiversity 1. Known flora and fauna species Number 2. Endemic flora and fauna species Number 3. Invasive flora and fauna species Number 4. Species population Number
Topic 1.2.1: Land cover a. Area under land cover categories Area ▪ By location ▪ By type of land cover (e.g., artificial surfaces including urban and associated areas; herbaceous crops; woody crops; multiple or layered crops; grassland; tree-covered areas; mangroves; areas; shrubs and/or herbaceous vegetation, aquatic or regularly flooded; sparsely natural vegetated areas; terrestrial barren land; permanent snow and glaciers; inland water bodies; and coastal water bodies and inter-tidal areas)(a) ▪ National ▪ Sub-national ▪ FAO Land Cover Classification System ▪ System of Accounting (SEEA) Central Framework (2012) land cover categories ▪ European Environment Agency (EEA) Topic 1.2.2: Ecosystems and biodiversity a. General ecosystem characteristics, extent and pattern ▪ By location ▪ By ecosystem (e.g., forest, cultivated, dryland, coastal, marine, polar, inland water, island, mountain)(b) ▪ Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ▪ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ▪ UN Economic Commission for Europe Standard Statistical Classification of Flora, Fauna and Biotopes (1996) ▪ Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat (the Ramsar Convention) 1. Area of ecosystems Area 2. Proximity of ecosystem to areas and cropland Distance b. Ecosystems' chemical and physical characteristics 1. Nutrients Concentration 2. Carbon Concentration 3. Pollutants Concentration c. Biodiversity 1. Known flora and fauna species Number 2. Endemic flora and fauna species Number 3. Invasive flora and fauna species Number 4. Species population Number