Databases, tools, guidelines and reports to help Parties, subnational governments and local actors turn biodiversity targets into concrete action. The final section gathers the texts adopted by cities, regions and local authorities themselves, from the first Curitiba meeting to the present.

Tools

• Singapore Index on Cities' Biodiversity - also known as the City Biodiversity Index, a self-assessment tool for cities to measure and monitor their own biodiversity, ecosystem services and governance. See also the handbook.
• CitiesWithNature - the platform where cities and local governments register voluntary commitments, set targets and report progress.
• RegionsWithNature - the counterpart platform for states, provinces and regions.

Guidelines

• Plan of Action on Subnational Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity (2023-2030) - the current framework, adopted as the annex to Decision 15/12.
• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Local and Regional Policy Makers - the policy-maker chapter of the TEEB series.
• Local Action for Biodiversity - ICLEI's programme supporting local governments through assessment, commitment, planning, approval and implementation of biodiversity action.
• Guidelines for an Integrated Approach in the Development and Implementation of National, Subnational and Local Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans - how local and subnational plans align with national ones.

Reports

• Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - the first global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services. The full report and the executive summary are also available.
• Mainstreaming Biodiversity: The Subnational Government Experience - case studies of subnational implementation, submitted as an information document to SBI-3.
• Overview of Achievements following Decision X/22 - ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center, 2020; a review of what the 2011-2020 Plan of Action delivered.

Declarations and outcome documents

The texts adopted by cities, regions and local authorities themselves.

• First Curitiba Declaration on Cities and Biodiversity (2007)
• Bonn Call for Action (2008, COP 9)
• Second Curitiba Declaration on Local Authorities and Biodiversity (2010)
• Aichi/Nagoya Declaration on Local Authorities and Biodiversity (2010, COP 10)
• Hyderabad Declaration on Subnational Governments, Cities and Local Authorities for Biodiversity (2012, COP 11)
• Gangwon/Pyeongchang Resolution for Cities and Subnational Governments for Biodiversity (2014, COP 12)
• Quintana Roo Communiqué on Mainstreaming Local and Subnational Biodiversity Action (2016, COP 13)
• Sharm El-Sheikh Communiqué for Local and Subnational Action for Nature and People (2018, COP 14)
• Edinburgh Declaration on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (2020)

For the COP decisions addressing subnational and local governments, see the decisions index.