What is the Target 2 Roadmap?
The Target 2 Roadmap is a global partnership under the umbrella of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, designed to monitor and accelerate progress towards restoring 30 percent of degraded ecosystems by 2030, in line with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Recognized by the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth meeting (decision 16/35) and launched at the twenty-seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice in October 2025, Target 2 Roadmap serves as a platform to align efforts, scale up restoration implementation and monitoring, and build national capacity.
Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as custodian of the Target 2 headline indicator on area under restoration, and developed in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Society for Ecological Restoration, Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry, and other partners, the Target 2 Roadmap provides methodologies, guidance and a strategic framework for coordinated implementation to advance the monitoring and reporting for Target 2.
As part of the United Kingdom-funded Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Nature Restoration (AIM4NatuRe), the Roadmap supports CBD Parties in monitoring and reporting on restoration progress through inclusive engagement with technical partners, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant stakeholders in co-developing tools, datasets and training resources.
Why the Target 2 Roadmap?
Initiated in 2023, the Target 2 Roadmap is now being further articulated through a robust governance structure to respond to decisions of the Conference of the Parties and evolving needs of Parties. The Target 2 Roadmap is designed to:
- Mobilize and coordinate expertise, highlighting the role of the Roadmap’s members and bringing together different areas of expertise;
- Identify and address needs for restoration monitoring and reporting;
- Advance knowledge on status and trends in ecosystem restoration;
- Develop a framework for sharing data for ecosystem restoration through a global restoration dataset;
- Showcase measurable progress and unlock opportunities for scaling restoration monitoring;
- Increase visibility and outreach on ecosystem restoration monitoring efforts and methodologies.
The Target 2 Roadmap is supporting synergies across Rio conventions and other UN Conventions including the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands by offering a platform for the secretariats of the conventions to discuss and co-design joint knowledge products based on their respective mandates.
Key technical partners have been cooperating on the refinement of the Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM), the organization of the global workshop on Target 2, the development of the Resource Manual for Target 2, and an e-learning course.
Technical and scientific cooperation
In February 2025, through a call for expressions of interest , ten subregional technical and scientific cooperation support centers were selected to receive funding for the delivery of the Target 2 Roadmap in their respective subregions. The objective is that the subregional technical and scientific cooperation support centers provide technical backstopping and knowledge management support to their constituent countries in the reporting process on Target 2.
As part of these packages, the Secretariat, jointly with FAO and other partners, is organizing three subregional dialogues/workshops between September 2025 and January 2026 to support CBD Parties in their reporting on Target 2 for 7th national reports:
Additional workshops are foreseen in 2027 and 2028 to contribute to the preparation of the 8th national reports.
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