Guidance on using the indicators of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

The Executive Secretary circulates herewith, for the information of participants in the twenty- sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, the guidance related to using the indicators of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. [...] The indicators are to be reported nationally in the national reports, but also will serve as the basis for global analysis and informing the Conference of the Parties when it reviews progress towards the implementation of the Framework. [...] The indicators of the monitoring framework link to specific goals and targets of the Framework and not to Section C of the Framework. [...] However, as noted in the section above on the use of TK indicators, and in the light of the ongoing developments around Community Based Monitoring and Information Systems (CBMIS) and parallel developments in the application of monitoring through citizen science, there are opportunities to address the current lack of indicators about processes and to make monitoring more inclusive. [...] Similarly, the recommendation of the 12th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity “Stresses the importance of community-based monitoring and information systems for filling temporal and spatial data gaps and building capacity to implement the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global B.