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Europe Overseas Roundtable on
Biodiversity and Climate Change
6TH Meeting, September 2014
Agenda
Indicators workshop outcomes
• Analysis of SEBI (26), BIP (39)
• + French initiative (ONB) and situation in
the Macaronesia Region
• + ongoing works: NETBIOME – Scope of
EU impact on Global Biodiversity (EEA)
A first set proposal as a common and
operational set
Provisional EU Overseas Set of Indicators
Policy Responses
IAS:
• Number of IAS targeted by local plan or
measures
+
• Trend
Red List:
Protected Areas (PA):
• Coverage
• Number of Rangers/ PA
Policy Responses
Funding:
• Total amount allocated for biodiversity
(analysed per categories of target i.e research,
conservation project,..)
Restoration efforts:
• coverage of habitats restored/ area of habitats
degraded or lost
 Development of local Strategies
Fisheries:
• Certification
• Licences
Pressures
 Artificialisation:
• Area and % of artificialised areas
 IAS:
• Number and trend of most IAS invasive found
on the territory
• % of IAS over native species
 Climate Change:
• Change in seas temperature
• Area of Land lost due to sea level rise
• Area of Ice cap lost
Pressures
 Use of natural resources :
• Composite index:
Timber, fisheries, hunting of native species,
…
Nitrogen pollution
Pesticides:
• Consumption ( t)
• 5 most used pesticides
State:
 Coverage of natural habitats
• Area %
+ Trend
+ Area % of natural habitat / inhabitant
State:
State:
 Coverage of natural habitats
• Area
• Trend
Status of coral reefs:
State:
State:
 Coverage of natural habitats
• Area
• Trend
Status of coral reefs:
Red List:
• Number of endangered species
• Status of conservation evolution of endemic
species
State:
State:
 Coverage of natural habitats
• Area
• Trend
Status of coral reefs:
Red List:
• Number of endangered species
• Status of conservation evolution of endemic
species
Taxonomic knowledge completiveness
State:
Taxonomic knowledge completiveness:
State:
 Traditional knowledge (TK):
• Number of project based and promoting
TK
Benefits:
 Socio-economic valuation of ecosystem
services:
• Common methodology to agreed for
setting up the composite index
Tourism – recreative activities:
• % of tourism in the local economy
Next Step: Guadeloupe Conference
• A Policy brief for the discussion in Guadeloupe
• session dedicated in Workshop n°2:
• Key questions:
1) What is the purpose of having such indicators?
a) What will governments and European Institutions
do with the results?
b) How will an indicator feed into government and
European initiatives?
c) What types of indicator best fit this purpose?
2) What mechanism will be in place to ensure these
indicators are sustainable and monitored over the long
term?