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Case study Costa Rica

Costa Rica advances in the development of a national system for monitoring land and ecosystem cover and use











The revised version is available"Costa Rica’s progress in developing a national land use, land cover and ecosystems monitoring system - Strengthening national capacities to monitor natural, agricultural and biodiversity resources to support decision-making and increase the ambition and effectiveness of climate actions (2021)"



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