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Short Abstract

We aim to share insights from the more4nature project on how citizen science data—particularly from Denmark’s national and local biodiversity citizen science programmes—can inform and populate GBF indicators and assess whether such data are being used in official CBD reporting by the Government

Abstract

Motivation

The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was agreed by 195 countries under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in December 2022. The GBF tasks governments to report progress towards 23 targets and four goals but also “invites Parties and relevant organizations to support community-based monitoring and information systems and citizen science” to improve information for decision-making and build support for conservation efforts throughout society. Of the 365 indicators of the GBF monitoring framework, a total of 185 (51%) could potentially involve citizens in data collection (Nature Sustain. 7:1730; 2024).

As part of our work in the biodiversity cluster of the more4nature project, we are interested in:

1) Whether governments are using citizen science data in their official reporting to the CBD (7th national reports, due February 2026), and

2) To what extent data from existing local and national citizen science programmes in practice can populate the GBF indicators.

Contribution

From the more4nature project’s biodiversity cluster case studies in Denmark we can contribute information about whether data from existing citizen science programmes in Thy National Park and at national level in Denmark can populate the GBF indicators, and whether Denmark used any of the CS data from existing CS programmes in its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan submission, its targets submitted to the CBD, and its official reporting.