The European Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) just published a science for policy brief presenting the state of play and the future steps for the EU Biodiversity Strategy (EU BDS) dashboard as of November 2025.

In terms of updates compared to the last brief published at the end of 2024, three new indicators have been published, resulting in a dashboard containing 19 indicators to monitor progress on 9 out of the 16 EU BDS targets.

These new indicators are:

• Natural area connectivity on land

• Share of agricultural area covered with landscape features

• Biodiversity financing indicator developed to track progress on the EU BDS commitment to unlock at least € 20 billion/year for biodiversity (Neuville et al., 2024).

In addition, most of the existing in the EU BDS dashboard indicators have been updated and a science-for-policy report of the KCBD "Assessing progress in monitoring and implementing the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030", based on the dashboard, was published in May 2025.

In terms of future steps, the priority for the following months is to finalize the 2025 update of all existing indicators for which new data is available and add a new indicator “Trends in the uptake of agro-ecological practices” to the EU BDS dashboard.

The EC’s Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity will keep coordinating the identification of relevant indicators and consulting the Monitoring and Assessment sub-group of the EU Biodiversity Platform (EUBP-MA) - the governance body of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 - to complete the EU Biodiversity Strategy dashboard and progressively improving the monitoring of the EU's progress in meeting its biodiversity policy targets.