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• Target 1: By 2020, at the latest, people are aware of the values of biodiversity and the steps they can take to conserve and use it sustainably.

  SDG Goals:

  Goal 4 Goal 12 Goal 15 Target 4.7 Target 12.6 Target 12.8 Target 15.9

  Terms: Public awareness, Resource accounting, Sustainable use

  • Indicator 1.1: Trends in awareness and attitudes to biodiversity

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 4 Goal 12 Target 4.7 Target 12.6 Target 12.8 Indicator 4.7.1 Indicator 12.8.1 Indicator 12.6.1

    Terms: Public awareness

    • Specific Indicator 1.1.1: Biodiversity Barometer

      Terms: Public awareness

    • Specific Indicator 1.1.2: Online interest in biodiversity (Google trends)

      Terms: Public awareness

    • Specific Indicator 1.1.3: WAZA global visitor survey

      Terms: Public awareness

  • Indicator 1.2: Trends in public engagement with biodiversity

    Terms: Public participation

• Target 2: By 2020, at the latest, biodiversity values have been integrated into national and local development and poverty reduction strategies and planning processes and are being incorporated into national accounting, as appropriate, and reporting systems.

  SDG Goals:

  Goal 15 Target 15.9 Indicator 15.9.1

  Terms: Integrated management, National reports, Poverty, Resource accounting

  • Indicator 2.1: Trends in incorporation of measures of stock and flow of natural capital into national accounting

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 15 Target 15.9 Indicator 15.9.1

    Terms: Resource accounting

    • Specific Indicator 2.1.1: Number of countries implementing natural resource account, excluding energy, within the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)

  • Indicator 2.2: Trends in number of countries that have assessed values of biodiversity, in accordance with the Convention

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 15 Target 15.9 Indicator 15.9.1

    Terms: Resource accounting

    • Specific Indicator 2.2.1: Progress towards national targets established in accordance with Aichi Biodiversity Target 2 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 (indicator for SDG target 15.9)

  • Indicator 2.3: Trends in integration of biodiversity and ecosystem service values into sectoral and development policies

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 15 Target 15.9 Indicator 15.9.1

    Terms: Ecosystem services, National strategies

    • Specific Indicator 2.3.1: Number of countries that have integrated biodiversity in National Development Plans, poverty reduction strategies or other key development plans

• Target 3: By 2020, at the latest, incentives, including subsidies, harmful to biodiversity are eliminated, phased out or reformed in order to minimize or avoid negative impacts, and positive incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are developed and applied, consistent and in harmony with the Convention and other relevant international obligations, taking into account national socio economic conditions.

  SDG Goals:

  Goal 2 Goal 14 Goal 15 Target 2.b Target 14.6 Target 15.5 Target 15.a

  Terms: Economic instruments

  • Indicator 3.1: Trends in the number and value of incentives, including subsidies, harmful to biodiversity, removed, reformed or phased out

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 2 Goal 14 Target 2.b Target 14.6 Indicator 2.b.1 Indicator 2.b.2 Indicator 14.6.1

    Terms: Economic instruments

    • Specific Indicator 3.1.1: Trends in potentially harmful elements of government support to agriculture (produced support estimates)

    • Specific Indicator 3.1.2: Trends in potentially harmful elements of government support to fisheries

    • Specific Indicator 3.1.3: Agricultural export subsidies

  • Indicator 3.2: Trends in development and application of incentives that promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 14 Target 14.6 Indicator 14.6.1

    Terms: conservation, Sustainable use, Economic instruments

    • Specific Indicator 3.2.1: Number of countries with national instruments on biodiversity-related taxes, charges and fees

    • Specific Indicator 3.2.2: Number of countries with national instruments on REDD plus schemes

    • Specific Indicator 3.2.3: Number of countries with national instruments on biodiversity relevant tradable permit schemes

• Target 4: By 2020, at the latest, Governments, business and stakeholders at all levels have taken steps to achieve or have implemented plans for sustainable production and consumption and have kept the impacts of use of natural resources well within safe ecological limits.

  SDG Goals:

  Goal 2 Goal 6 Goal 8 Goal 11 Goal 12 Target 2.4 Target 6.4 Target 8.4 Target 11.3 Target 12.1 Target 12.2 Target 12.6

  Terms: Stakeholder engagement, Sustainable production, Sustainable use

  • Indicator 4.1: Trends in extent to which biodiversity and ecosystem service values are incorporated into organizational accounting and reporting

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 6 Goal 12 Target 6.4 Target 12.1 Indicator 6.4.1 Indicator 12.1.1

    Terms: Ecosystem services, Reporting

  • Indicator 4.2: Ecological limits assessed in terms of sustainable production and consumption

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 6 Goal 11 Target 6.4 Target 11.3 Indicator 6.4.1 Indicator 6.4.2 Indicator 11.3.1

    Terms: Sustainable production, Sustainable use

    • Specific Indicator 4.2.1: Human appropriation of net primary productivity

    • Specific Indicator 4.2.2: Human appropriation of fresh water (water footprint)

    • Specific Indicator 4.2.3: Change in water use efficiency over time

    • Specific Indicator 4.2.4: Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources

  • Indicator 4.3: Trends in use of natural resources and/or related concepts

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 8 Goal 11 Goal 12 Target 8.4 Target 12.2 Target 11.3 Target 12.1 Indicator 8.4.1 Indicator 12.2.1 Indicator 11.3.1 Indicator 8.4.2 Indicator 12.2.2 Indicator 12.1.1

    Terms: Stakeholder engagement, Sustainable use

    • Specific Indicator 4.3.1: Ecological footprint

    • Specific Indicator 4.3.2: Material footprint (MF) and MF per capita, per GDP

    • Specific Indicator 4.3.3: Domestic material consumption (DMC) and DMC per capita, per GDP

    • Specific Indicator 4.3.4: Number of countries with sustainable consumption and production (SCP) national action plans or SCP mainstreamed as a priority or target into national policies

  • Indicator 4.4: Trends in population and extinction risk of utilized species, including species in trade

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 15 Target 15.7 Indicator 15.7.1

    Terms: Conservation of species, Threatened species, Trade in species

    • Specific Indicator 4.4.1: Red List Index (impact of utilization)

    • Specific Indicator 4.4.2: Percentage of Category 1 nations in CITES

    • Specific Indicator 4.4.3: Red List Index for species in trade

    • Specific Indicator 4.4.4: Proportion of traded wildlife that was poached or illicitly trafficked

  • Indicator 4.5: Trends in biodiversity of cities

    SDG Goals:

    Goal 11 Target 11.3 Indicator 11.3.1

    Terms: Urban ecosystems

    • Specific Indicator 4.5.1: Number of cities applying and reporting on the CITES Biodiversity Index

    • Specific Indicator 4.5.2: Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate