CBD parties acknowledge FAO road map on ecosystem restoration

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this week acknowledged an FAO-led global partnership to monitor progress towards ecosystem restoration under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).

The Target 2 Road Map supports countries in implementing, measuring and reporting progress towards Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), which is to restore 30 percent of degraded ecosystems by 2030.

The acknowledgement of the road map came at the Sixth Meeting of CBD's Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-6), hosted at FAO headquarters in Rome, where Parties took stock of how monitoring support for Target 2 is being delivered and scaled globally.

“FAO is proud to support the Target 2 Road Map as a model for how the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets should be supported by partners and international organizations,” said Julian Fox, Senior FAO Forestry Officer.

Understanding the Target 2 Road Map

Launched at the twenty-seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-27) in October 2025, the road map brings together FAO and key partners to develop shared guidance, practical solutions and data approaches that countries can use to measure and report restoration data.

It also encourages collaboration across conventions, governments, regional centers, communities, Indigenous Peoples and technical partners to ensure that support is cohesive and inclusive, building on synergies across KM-GBF targets, governments and society.

The road map is a key milestone under FAO and the United Kingdom’s Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Nature Restoration (AIM4NatuRe) initiative, which aims to strengthen national capacities to generate reliable data on ecosystem restoration, and plays a central role in ensuring transparency and comparability of data across regions. It builds on the Task on Monitoring of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, engaging the Task Force to support countries in reporting on restoration progress.

Led by FAO as custodian of the Target 2 headline indicator on area under restoration, the road map was developed in collaboration with the CBD Secretariat, the Society for Ecological Restoration, the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry, and other partners.

Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring

FAO’s technical leadership includes for its key role in establishing an innovative approach for measuring and reporting the restoration of degraded ecosystems, supporting consistent tracking of progress during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

The Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) provides a structured approach to compiling data on areas under restoration and is the official platform for collecting and compiling restoration data under the CBD reporting processes for restoration across all ecosystems.