Planning, Monitoring, Reporting, and Review at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
On Wednesday, 30 October, WG I addressed a draft decision on the monitoring framework for the GBF, approving most elements of the draft decision and the three associated annexes with minor amendments. Delegates agreed to request the GEF to provide financial resources to contribute to the development and implementation of national biodiversity monitoring systems in response to requests by “ all eligible parties ” and according to its mandate. Delegates further agreed to encourage provision of “ support, including resources, ” for community-based monitoring and information systems. The annexes were approved, with brackets remaining on: indicator 7.2, concerning “ pesticide environment concentration ” and/or “ aggregated total applied toxicity, ” in the annex on technical updates to the headline and binary indicators in the GBF monitoring framework; and component indicators under Target 16 (sustainable consumption), namely “ global environmental impacts of consumption ” and “ ecologic