Key Performance Indicators
Find out how we monitor impact across our projects
Capturing our impact through Key Performance Indicators
We believe that restoring naturally functioning ecosystems at landscape and seascape scale is instrumental in reversing the decline of biodiversity, sequestering carbon, creating ecosystems that are resilient to climate change, and providing a basis for local nature-based economies that improve people’s economic and social welfare.
To capture these impacts, we have developed a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
species listed as globally threatened by the IUCN benefitting from project actions
institutions participating in ELSP projects
presentations given at conferences and public events
communities benefiting from project actions
hectares of land and sea newly protected
hectares of land and sea directly under restoration
USD of co-funding secured across the Programme
Key Performance Indicators
Explore our KPI dashboard to learn more about how we are contributing to delivery of the targets of multilateral environmental agreements.
The Global Biodiversity Framework
At the end of 2022, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted by countries during the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 15) following a four-year consultation and negotiation process. Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, the GBF aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by enabling transformative action across governments and all of society.
The Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, countries around the world signed up to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a transformative plan to end poverty, protect the planet and to ensure all people live in peace and prosperity by 2030. The UN reviews progress every four years through the High-level Political Forum. The full list of SDGs and their definitions can be found here.
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