Goal 15: Life on land. Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

We review progress towards Sustainable Development Goal #15 on life on land, focusing on the 12 official UN indicators. Of these 12, data are already available for five through the SDGs database and two from other authoritative sources; the remaining five do not yet exist. While indicators of responses show improvements, those for state reveal decreases. We speculate as to the explanations and implications of this discrepancy, and propose an agenda to resolve these possibilities.