TY  - JOUR
KW  - Living Planet Index
KW  -  biodiversity indicators
KW  -  Convention on Biological Diversity
KW  -  biodiversity policy
KW  -  biodiversity recovery
PB  - ROYAL SOC
ID  - discovery10205132
N2  - The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a leading global biodiversity indicator based on vertebrate population time series. Since it was first developed over 25 years ago, the LPI has been widely used to indicate trends in biodiversity globally, primarily reported every two years in the Living Planet Report. Based on relative abundance, a sensitive metric of biodiversity change, the LPI has also been applied as a tool for informing policy and used in assessments for several multilateral conventions and agreements, including the Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 Biodiversity Target and Aichi targets. Here, we outline all current and some potential uses of the LPI as a policy tool and explore the use of the LPI in policy documents to assess the reach of the LPI geographically and over time. We present limitations to the use of this indicator in policy, primarily relating to the development of the index at the national level, and suggest clear pathways to broaden the utility of the LPI and the underlying database for temporal and spatial predictions of biodiversity change. We also provide evidence that the LPI can detect recoveries in biodiversity and suggest its suitability for measuring progress towards the goal of biodiversity recovery by 2050. This article is part of the discussion meeting issue ?Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future?.
EP  - 12
Y1  - 2025/01/09/
AV  - public
TI  - The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery
A1  - Mcrae, Louise
A1  - Cornford, Richard
A1  - Marconi, Valentina
A1  - Puleston, Hannah
A1  - Ledger, Sophie EH
A1  - Deinet, Stefanie
A1  - Oppenheimer, Philippa
A1  - Hoffmann, Mike
A1  - Freeman, Robin
JF  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
SN  - 0962-8436
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0207
N1  - © 2025 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original
author and source are credited.
IS  - 1917
VL  - 380
ER  -