Biodiversity Information System for Europe - SEBI - Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators<p><img style="margin: 0px; width: 110px; float: right; height: 106px;" title="SEBI logo" alt="" src="/images/sebi.jpg" height="106" width="110" />The <strong>Pan-European SEBI initiative was launched in 2005.</strong> Its aim was to develop a European set of biodiversity indicators – based on those already existing, plus new indicators as necessary – to assess and inform about progress towards the 2010 targets. From its inception SEBI linked the global framework set by the Convention on Biological Diversity with regional and national indicator initiatives.</p>
<p><strong>SEBI is a partnership</strong> between the EEA (the European Environment Agency), its Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD), DG Environment of the European Commission, the Czech Republic (as lead country for the Kiev Resolution action plan on biodiversity indicators, ECNC (the European Centre for Nature Conservation), UNEP/ PEBLDS Secretariat, and UNEP-WCMC (the World Conservation Monitoring Centre). The strategic orientation of the work has been undertaken by a Coordination Team with representatives from the above organisations.</p>
<p>Since, 2005, the Coordination Team has set up several <strong>Expert groups</strong> involving more than 120 experts from European countries as well as Non-Governmental Organisations. Supported by expert contributions, the first set of 26 SEBI indicators was chosen at the end of 2006.</p>
<p>One of the <strong>principal working methods</strong> of SEBI is to build on current monitoring and available data to avoid duplication of efforts and to complement and not replace other activities to describe, model and understand biodiversity and the pressures upon it. This means that a large part of the 26 SEBI indicators originates from various external ongoing programmes and processes at the national, European and global levels.</p>
<p>From the very beginning, the proposed set of indicators has been seen holistically, stressing mutual relationships among the individual indicators and their power to deal with uncertainty. Special attention was paid to the task to produce user-friendly indicators. Furthermore SEBI aimed at improving the provision of information to policy-makers along the DPSIR chain (Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact, Responses) in support of policy effectiveness.</p>
<p>While SEBI is pan-European in scope, some of the indicators specifically link to the <strong>community policy framework</strong> that exists for <strong>EU Member States</strong>.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>Moving forward <strong>towards 2020</strong> it will be important to transparently measure progress towards the new European and global 2020 biodiversity targets. SEBI is in a strong position to contribute to this.</p>
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<li>Access to <a href="http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/indicators#c7=all&c5=all&c10=SEBI&c13=20&b_start=0">SEBI Indicators</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff0000;">NEW</span> <a href="/policy/eu-biodiversity-strategy">BISE-> EU Biodiversity Stragegy and possible SEBI indicators</a></li>
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<p><em>Further reading:</em></p>
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<li><strong></strong><a href="http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/ind/ahteg-sp-ind-01/information/ahteg-sp-ind-01-inf-07-en.pdf">SEBI information paper to June 2011 AHTEG meeting</a></li>
<li><strong></strong><a href="http://biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/information/indicator/F1090245995/SEBI%20publications-2005-2010/reports-sebi-working-groups/sebi-interlinkages-final-report.pdf/download">Report on Interlinkages between the European biodiversity indicators, improving their information power</a></li>
<li>Reports:
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<li><a href="http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/assessing-biodiversity-in-europe-84">Assessing biodiversity in Europe — the 2010 report (2010)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/publications/progress-towards-the-european-2010-biodiversity-target/">Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target (2009)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/progress-towards-the-european-2010-biodiversity-target-indicator-fact-sheets">Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target — indicator fact sheets (2009)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/technical_report_2007_11">Halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010: proposal for a first set of indicators to monitor progress in Europe (2007)</a></li>
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<li><strong>EU Biodiversity Action Plan </strong>(BAP) Report:
<div>a) Community report on targets <a href="/countries_and_networks/bap/community_target?id=C1_2">C1.2</a> and <a href="/countries_and_networks/bap/community_target?id=C1_3">C1.3</a> </div>
<div>b) Country profiles on targets <a href="/bap/compare?country=Austria&objective=MandE&target=C1_2&cmp_countries%3Alist=Belgium&cmp_countries%3Alist=Bulgaria&cmp_countries%3Alist=Cyprus&cmp_countries%3Alist=Czech+Republic&cmp_countries%3Alist=Denmark&cmp_countries%3Alist=Estonia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Finland&cmp_countries%3Alist=France&cmp_countries%3Alist=Germany&cmp_countries%3Alist=Greece&cmp_countries%3Alist=Hungary&cmp_countries%3Alist=Ireland&cmp_countries%3Alist=Italy&cmp_countries%3Alist=Latvia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Lithuania&cmp_countries%3Alist=Luxembourg&cmp_countries%3Alist=Malta&cmp_countries%3Alist=Netherlands&cmp_countries%3Alist=Poland&cmp_countries%3Alist=Portugal&cmp_countries%3Alist=Romania&cmp_countries%3Alist=Slovakia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Slovenia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Spain&cmp_countries%3Alist=Sweden&cmp_countries%3Alist=United+Kingdom&compare=Compare">C1.2</a> and <a href="/bap/compare?country=Austria&objective=MandE&target=C1_3&cmp_countries%3Alist=Belgium&cmp_countries%3Alist=Bulgaria&cmp_countries%3Alist=Cyprus&cmp_countries%3Alist=Czech+Republic&cmp_countries%3Alist=Denmark&cmp_countries%3Alist=Estonia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Finland&cmp_countries%3Alist=France&cmp_countries%3Alist=Germany&cmp_countries%3Alist=Greece&cmp_countries%3Alist=Hungary&cmp_countries%3Alist=Ireland&cmp_countries%3Alist=Italy&cmp_countries%3Alist=Latvia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Lithuania&cmp_countries%3Alist=Luxembourg&cmp_countries%3Alist=Malta&cmp_countries%3Alist=Netherlands&cmp_countries%3Alist=Poland&cmp_countries%3Alist=Portugal&cmp_countries%3Alist=Romania&cmp_countries%3Alist=Slovakia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Slovenia&cmp_countries%3Alist=Spain&cmp_countries%3Alist=Sweden&cmp_countries%3Alist=United+Kingdom&compare=Compare">C1.3</a></div>
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<div><em>Related links:</em></div>
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<li>All documents related to <a href="http://biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/information/indicator/F1090245995">SEBI activities</a></li>
<li>EU level: <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/knowledge/eu2010_indicators/index_en.htm">DG Environment web page</a></li>
<li>Global level: <a href="http://www.bipindicators.net/">Biodiversity Indicators partnership 2010 BIP</a></li>
<li>National level: <a href="/countries_and_networks">BISE -> Countries & Networks</a></li>
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