7NR Guidance and Template
In
decision 15/6, Parties are requested to submit their
seventh national report by 28 February 2026 and their
eighth national report by 30 June 2029 to enable the preparation of the global reviews, as adopted in
decision 16/32, using the
guidance and template available on the
7th National Report page.
Parties are also requested to use the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in
decision 15/5, including the technical updates agreed in
decision 16/31, in their national reports. The headline indicators and binary indicators are a main element of the national reporting template. Parties, can, as appropriate, also use the disagregations of the headline indicators, and the optional component and complementary indicators identified in the monitoring framework in their national reports along with any relevant national indicators.
Online Reporting Tool
National targets and NBSAPs due by COP-16 are available on the
Online Reporting Tool. Details on the use of the ORT are provided in
notification 2023-117,
notification 2024-045 and
notification 2024-103.
A first
webinar demonstrating the Online Reporting Tool was conducted and the
recording is available here. An additional
information webinar was organized; recordings are available in
English,
French,
Spanish and
Russian
. Those submitted
for national reporting to biodiversity-related conventions. DaRT is being developed by UNEP, with the support of SCBD, and was endorsed by the InforMEA Initiative which brings together MEAs. It is financially supported by the European Union and Switzerland. Click
for further details. See also
The Bioland Tool is a turnkey solution that can be used by all countries, no matter what capacity constraints they are faced with, to establish a basic operational national CHM website which,
. This turnkey solution uses the Drupal content management system (CMS) and is available at no cost to countries. Click
to see a demonstration of the Bioland Tool. Countries interested in making use of the Bioland Tool should contact the CBD Secretariat at
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