Nickel mine exploitation threats to Sulawesi’s natural environment
14 November, 2024
Tuesday 22 october 2024
Header photo: Páramo de Ocetá in Boyacá © Joerg Steber
The monitoring framework of the KM-GBF plays a crucial role in achieving the targets by using indicators to measure progress. The framework includes both main indicators for national, regional and global monitoring, as well as supplementary and component indicators that provide more detailed insight into the status of different targets. At COP15, the framework for monitoring biodiversity was adopted, but indicators are not yet available for all biodiversity targets in the KM-GBF. Because some targets are complex, it is not always possible to collect the necessary data. To fill these gaps, simple yes/no indicators have been developed. These binary indicators look in a practical way at whether national policies exist to achieve the targets. At COP16, these binary indicators will be negotiated so that each target in the monitoring system has at least one indicator.
It is crucial to agree on a monitoring framework as complete as possible at COP16, as this is the last COP before the seventh national reporting for the CBD is due on 28 February 2026. The basis for reporting are the indicators, so these do need to be available.
IUCN is an important data supplier for the main indicators of the KM-GBF. For example, through the indicators ‘Red List of Ecosystems’, ‘Extend of natural ecosystems’, ‘Red List Index’, and ‘Coverage of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures’. Several sub-indicators apply IUCN’s Global Ecosystem Typology. IUCN will continue to work with Convention Parties to further develop and implement biodiversity monitoring.
In addition, IUCN provides Technical Support Centres worldwide to provide technical and scientific support to Convention Parties for the realisation of the KM-GBF. This support is badly needed, especially for countries in the Global South to strengthen their monitoring systems.
The Netherlands is confronted with a major biodiversity challenge. Only through an ambitious and effective approach can we restore nature together. The National Dashboard Biodiversity is an independent website that shows the state of biodiversity in the Netherlands, largely based on the goals of the KM-GBF.
IUCN NL is committed to monitoring biodiversity in the Global South. Technology plays an increasing role in this. The more digital technologies like drones, satellite imagery and camera traps develop, the more effective they become within the management, protection and restoration of nature. Illegal activities can thus be detected more easily, making the work of conservationists not only easier, but also safer.