This Information Document is prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Task Force on Monitoring, in collaboration with BIP, CBD, GRO, ICRI, IUCN, Ramsar, SER, UNCCD and UNEP-WCMC. It contains two main parts:

Part 1 provides relevant background information on Target 2 of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) and monitoring guidance

Part 2 proposes a draft methodology based on the guidance.