Notification 2025-044

Dear Sir or Madam,

At its sixteenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted its decision 16/31 on the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. In paragraph 30(b) of that decision, the Executive Secretary was requested to compile submissions from Parties, the secretariats of multilateral environmental agreements, relevant academia and research institutions and other relevant organizations, including the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth for the inclusion of additional headline, component and complementary indicators that meet the criteria for inclusion in the monitoring framework (see annex) in order to help to address the gaps in the monitoring framework.

In response to that request, Parties and observers are invited to provide information related to possible additional headline, component and complementary indicators by 30 May 2025. Submissions should identify which gap(s) in the monitoring framework the proposed indicators are addressing and how the criteria for indicators identified in paragraph 2 of the monitoring framework (decision 15/5, annex I) are addressed (see annex to the present notification). Information should be submitted through the central portal of the clearing-house mechanism using the following link: https://chm.cbd.int/submit/submission/new?notification=2025-044. Should technical problems prevent the use of the clearing-house mechanism, contributions may be sent through an official letter addressed to the Executive Secretary, by e-mail to secretariat@cbd.int.  

Please note that this notification is complemented by notifications 2025-045 and 2025-046 which address, respectively, paragraphs 30(c) and 30(d) of decision 16/31.

Please accept, Sir, Madam, the assurances of my highest consideration.

(Signed) Astrid Schomaker
Executive Secretary

Enclosure: Annex