This report is part of a series of reports that review the reality of the Sultanate in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, as it is dedicated to reviewing the indicators of the fifteenth goal of the sustainable development goals, which states: protecting and restoring terrestrial ecosystems and promoting their sustainable use, and managing forests in a sustainable manner. combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.
Under this goal, twelve targets are measured by fourteen indicators within the framework of the global indicators of the United Nations developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group; concerned with indicators of sustainable development goals, and the results of this report are limited to indicators for which sufficient data are available in accordance with the international methodology followed by the United Nations.
The preparation of this report relied on data for the period (2015 - 2020 AD), which was represented by the administrative records of the data source bodies from ministries and government institutions and the source of the 2020 census data. And specialized surveys, such as the comprehensive household survey.