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​Biodiversity Indicators for National Use: Experience and Guidance

This document contains the results of a project carried out with four country partners in order to develop biodiversity indicators for national use.

Review of the global indicator suite, key global gaps and indicator options for future assessment of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

The Terms of Reference for the AHTEG on Indicators for the Strategic Plan 2011-2020 (decision XII/1), called on the AHTEG to ‘identify a small set of measureable potential indicators that could be used to monitor progress at the global level towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets with a focus on those that are currently not well addressed and those that may be relevant to the United Nations post-2015 development agenda and sustainable development goals’. This document has been developed to support the AHTEG by identifying gaps in the current suite of indicators brought together under the BIP, building upon the indicative list of indicators adopted in decision XI/3 and reviewing potential indicators to fill these gaps. This document is not a report on the state of the world’s indicators.

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets.We projected indicator trends to 2020 using an adaptive statistical framework that incorporated the specific properties of individual time series. On current trajectories, results suggest that despite accelerating policy and management responses to the biodiversity crisis, the impacts of these efforts are unlikely to be reflected in improved trends in the state of biodiversity by 2020. We highlight areas of societal endeavor requiring additional efforts to achieve the Aichi Targets, and provide a baseline against which to assess future progress.

New Partner/Indicator Request Template

This form is for new Partners interested in joining the BIP, and for existing Partners with new indicators for submission.

Cross-mapping of the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership indicators to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and SDGs

This table maps the current suite of indicators brought together under the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership to both the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals to support the identification of indicator synergies between the processes. This is a working table which will be continually updated to include new indicators as the BIP expands its membership, and greater characterisation of how the indicators can be used at the national level.

Minding the Gap - how the BIP is filling indicator gaps

This 2 page summary has been developed to showcase the BIP's work on filling indicator gaps, as well as information on national use of indicators.