A Global Biodiversity Observing System to unite monitoring and guide action

An essential part of the Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) is its monitoring framework which includes a set of indicators which will be used by nations to monitor and report their progress toward the framework’s targets and goals. The indicators track actions and policies implementing the framework (such as protected area establishment) and those reducing the drivers of biodiversity loss (pollution abatement, for example). However, disparities among nations in the access and use of biodiversity observations and knowledge means that the global community is not adequately equipped to meet the information requirements of the monitoring framework. To address this issue, members of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) and its partner institutions, propose the establishment of a Global Biodiversity Observing System (GBiOS) that will initially interlink existing capacities and organizations to monitor how, where, and why biodiversity is changing, and progressively grow to guide the action needed to realize the targets and goals of the new Global Biodiversity Framework.

GONZALEZ Andrew;  VIHERVAARA Petteri;  BALVANERA Patricia;  BATES Amanda;  BAYRAKTAROV Elisa;  BELLINGHAM Peter;  BRUDER Andreas;  CAMPBELL Jillian;  CATCHEN Michael;  CAVENDER-BARES Jeannine;  CHASE Jonathan;  COOPS Nicholas;  COSTELLO Mark;  CZUCZ Balint;  DELAVAUD Aurélie;  DORNELAS Maria;  DUBOIS Gregoire;  DUFFY Emmett;  EGGERMONT Hilde;  FERNANDEZ Nestor;  FERRIER Simon;  GELLER Gary;  GILL Michael;  GRAVEL Dominique;  GUERRA Carlos;  GURALNICK Robert;  HARFOOT Michael;  HIRSCH Tim;  HOBAN Sean;  HUGHES Alice;  HUGO Wim;  HUNTER Margaret;  ISBELL Forest;  JETZ Walter;  JUERGENS Norbert;  KISSLING Daniel;  KRUG Cornelia;  KULLBERG Peter;  LE BRAS Yvan;  LEUNG Brian;  LONDOÑO-MURCIA Maria Cecilia;  LORD Jean-Michel;  LOREAU Michel;  LOREAU Michel;  LUERS Amy;  MA Keping;  MACDONALD Anna;  MAES Joachim;  MAN SHAKYA Mangal;  MCGEOCH Melodie;  MIHOUB Jean-Baptiste;  MILLETTE Katie;  MOLNAR Zsolt;  MONTES Enrique;  MORI Akira;  MULLER-KARGER Frank;  MURAOKA Hiroyuki;  NAKAOKA Masahiro;  NAVARRO Laetitia;  NEWBOLD Tim;  NIAMIR Aidin;  O’CONNOR Mary;  OBURA David;  PAGANINI Marc;  PELLETIER Dominique;  PEREIRA Henrique M.;  POISOT Timothée;  POLLOCK Laura;  PURVIS Andy;  RADULOVICI Adriana;  ROCCHINI Duccio;  ROEOESLI Claudia;  SCHAEPMAN Michael;  SCHAEPMAN-STRUB Gabriela;  SCHMELLER Dirk;  SCHMIEDEL Ute;  SCHNEIDER Fabian;  SKIDMORE Andrew;  SKOWNO Andrew;  TAKEUCHI Yayoi;  TUANMU Mao-Ning;  TURAK Eren;  TURNER Woody;  URBAN Mark;  URBINA-CARDONA Nicolás;  VALBUENA Ruben;  VAN DE PUTTE Anton;  VAN HAVRE Basile;  WINGATE Vladimir Ruslan;  WRIGHT Elaine;  ZAMBRANA TORRELIO Carlos; 

2023-12-11

SPRINGER NATURE

JRC134457

2397-334X (online),   

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02171-0,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC134457,   

10.1038/s41559-023-02171-0 (online),