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Outcomes from the sixth meeting of the AHTEG on Indicators for the Global Biodiversity Framework

The sixth Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators (AHTEG) for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework met in person in Cambridge, UK, from 12–15 March 2024. 

The AHTEG was established by the fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity through its decision 15/5 with the main objective to provide technical advice, with a time-bound mandate until the sixteenth meeting of the COP, on the further operationalization of the monitoring framework for the Framework.   

During the meeting, the AHTEG reviewed the work done in the past year on the development of the metadata for the headline indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) which were prepared by the members of the group. The meeting also discussed other aspects related to the monitoring framework for the GBF such as the list of the binary indicators for monitoring actions towards the GBF, a glossary of terms, and the gap analysis of the indicators and the GBF goals and targets.

UNSD, a member of the AHTEG, participated virtually in the meeting and presented the work done on the metadata for the headline indicators A.2 “Extent of natural ecosystems” and B.1 “Services provided by ecosystems” which were prepared under the overall guidance of the UNCEEA Technical Committee on Ecosystem Accounting. The SEEA Ecosystem Accounting provides the methodological basis for these indicators.

The results of the work and the recommendations of the AHTEG (CBD/SBSTTA/26/2) are now available, and include the proposed indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in Annex I of the document. In addition, the metadata for the indicators have been compiled into a single information document (CBD/SBSTTA/26/INF/14) and are also available online. These documents will be discussed during the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) for its 26th meeting (SBSSTA-26) in 13–18 May 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Leading to and following the SBSTTA-26, the members of the AHTEG are providing a series of webinars to describe and discuss the outcomes of this expert group.  Registration is open for the first webinars: