Decision 15/6 : Mechanisms for planning, monitoring, reporting and review

An enhanced planning, monitoring, reporting and review mechanism was adopted to help track the progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. This mechanism, as well as the broader issues related to enhanced responsibility and transparency, is reflected in Section J  of the Framework on ‘Responsibility and Transparency’. The enhanced multidimensional approach to planning, monitoring, reporting and review includes the following elements:

(a)     National biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), revised or updated in alignment with the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework;

(b)     National reports, making used of the agreed indicators as appropriate, submitted in 2026 and 2029;

(c)      Global analysis of information in NBSAPs to assess the contribution towards the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework considered at meetings of the Conference of the Parties;

(d)     Global review of collective progress in the implementation to be considered at the seventeenth and nineteenth meetings of the Conference of the Parties; 

(e)      Voluntary peer reviews (VPR) of NBSAP Revision and Implementation; 

(f)      Further development and testing of an open-ended forum for voluntary county reviews;

(g)     Information on non-state actor commitments towards the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework;