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The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP)


What is Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP)?


  • The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) is a global initiative to promote and coordinate the development and delivery of biodiversity indicators for use by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other biodiversity-related conventions, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and national and regional agencies.
  • The BIP was established in 2007 to monitor progress to the 2010 Biodiversity Target of reducing the ‘current rate of global, regional and national biodiversity loss as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to benefit to all life on Earth’. 
  • The BIP receive funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
  • The Partnership is supported by UN Environment, the European Commission and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment.
  • The BIP Secretariat is hosted by the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK.
  • The Partnership currently brings together over fifty organizations working internationally on indicator development to provide the most comprehensive information on biodiversity trends.

The aims of Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP)


1. To Support the development and use of indicators to measure progress in achieving all the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.

2. To Support the development and use of biodiversity-related indicators in progress reporting of other Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), as well as to support statistical requirements, intergovernmental processes and development processes, including the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

3. To Strengthen capacity at the national level for indicator development and use in implementation and reporting of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and the SDGs.


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