Methodology
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. They choose indicators depending if they are policy relevant, temporally coherent and updated and scientifically based as well as sensitive to show trends and detect changes in systems in time frames and on the scales that are relevant to decisions
Data description
Databases correspond to different sets of indicators or indexes calculated secondarily, indicators producers are any type of UN agency, NGO or research instuitute that shows : Ongoing and active production or development of one or more indicators of relevance
for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, Sustainable Development Goals, biodiversity-related MEAs and/or other relevant processes, Willingness to provide indicator fact sheets and other information as requested by the BIP secretariat for use on the BIP website and in other communication materials, Commitment to promote the use of underlying indicator data and methodologies at the sub-global (sub-national, national, regional) level insofar as possible and appropriate, commitment to champion the BIP.
for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, Sustainable Development Goals, biodiversity-related MEAs and/or other relevant processes, Willingness to provide indicator fact sheets and other information as requested by the BIP secretariat for use on the BIP website and in other communication materials, Commitment to promote the use of underlying indicator data and methodologies at the sub-global (sub-national, national, regional) level insofar as possible and appropriate, commitment to champion the BIP.
Indicator
Natural forest
Method / tool
Biodiversity Impact Metric (BIM)