Indicators: Provisional Indicators for Assessing Progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target

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Convention on Biological Diversity Cartagena Documents

The Conference of the Parties (COP) agreed on a provisional list of global headline indicators, to assess progress at the global level towards the 2010 target (decision VII/30), and to effectively communicate trends in biodiversity related to the three objectives of the Convention. In decision VII/30 the COP established a process for testing and developing the indicators, with inputs from SBSTTA, the ad hoc Working Groups on ABS and Article 8(j), and an AHTEG on indicators for assessing progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target. The work of the AHTEG (Montreal, 19 - 22 October 2004) was prepared by an electronic discussion forum in which a series of task forces commented on possible indicators and lead organizations