The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership on 12 July 2007, in Paris, France, during the second meeting of the Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The US$ 8 million initiative, which receives funding from, among others, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), seeks to create a set of benchmarks to assess whether measures to protect the world’s biodiversity are effective. The partnership will introduce new indicators, such as the level of biodiversity protection in forests, farmlands and fisheries, and the level to which humans are affected by changing biodiversity, to gain greater insight into whether the 2010 Biodiversity Target is on the right track. The 2010 Biodiversity Target, to achieve a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level, was established in 2002 by Parties to the CBD, to which 189 States and the European Community belong. The first phase of the Partnership will run from mid-2007 until mid-2010, and activities are in progress.
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UNEP Press release, 12 July 2007