Over 60 experts from organizations, institutions, governments and the private sector, concerned with the implementation of SDG 15 and its target 15.3, aiming at halting and reversing land degradation trends, participated in the meeting (see list of participants below). Opening remarks by the co-organizers offered an overview and framed the discussion for the two-day meeting. A presentation by the UNCCD’s Science Policy Interface (SPI) on the Land Degradation Neutrality conceptual framework and a report from UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) on the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG indicators (IAEG-SDGs) process further guided the participants in their deliberations. Just before the meeting, the indicator for SDG target 15.3 “proportion of land that is degraded over total land area” was granted “green” status by the IAEG-SDGs and will now likely be approved by the UNSC at its 47th session to be held in New York from 08-11 March 2016. From the outset, all participants agreed that monitoring and reporting on this indicator should primarily be based on national official data sources and take advantage of existing reporting mechanisms. The participants came to a consensus that the three sub-indicators already adopted by the UNCCD1 (land cover/land cover change, land productivity and carbon stocks above and below ground), in conjunction with other relevant indicators (such as FAO’s deliveries on LADA2) and contextualized with information at the national and sub-national level, provide the information needed to monitor and report on this indicator. The participants also agreed that the corresponding data sets to complement and support existing and new national data and information would come from multiple sources, including statistics and estimated data for administrative or national boundaries, ground measurements and remote sensing.