A lack of national level biodiversity data can pose serious challenges for countries when developing and implementing a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), or preparing a national report. Many of the global indicators brought together under the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) are comprised of national level data, or in some cases if not derived from national data, can be disaggregated at the national level. This Roadmap has been produced to create awareness of the possible use of the global indicators and their underlying data for supporting NBSAP implementation and national reporting requirements.

This document has been produced as an output of a UNEP-WCMC project, funded by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Switzerland.