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About this service

This platform provides machine-readable access to controlled vocabularies and ontologies published by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat. It offers a vocabulary browser, a SPARQL endpoint, and a REST API to support interoperability and data integration across biodiversity information systems.

Access methods

• Browse — use this interface to explore concepts and their relationships
• SPARQL — query the triplestore at /sparql/kmgbf
• REST API — JSON endpoints at /api (documentation at /api/docs)
• Download — get the full dataset at /download/ (Turtle and JSON)
• Visualize — explore the full framework as an interactive graph at /kmgbf/explore

URI resolution

All concepts have persistent URIs under http://metadata.cbd.int/. These URIs support content negotiation following the W3C Cool URIs pattern: request HTML to get this browsing interface, or request text/turtle, application/ld+json, or application/rdf+xml to get machine-readable RDF for the specific concept.

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Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF)

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity at COP-15 (Montreal, December 2022). It sets out an ambitious plan to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and achieve a vision of living in harmony with nature by 2050.

The framework comprises 4 goals and 23 targets, monitored through 204 indicators organized into four roles: headline, binary, component, and complementary. All data is available in English, French, and Spanish.

The monitoring framework was finalized at COP-16 (Cali, October 2024) and is derived from Decision 16/31 (Annexes I, II, and III).

Source code & examples

The ontology and data files are published on GitHub. The repository includes example SPARQL queries and REST API usage to get you started.

Citation

If you use this ontology in your work, please cite:

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2026). KMGBF Monitoring Framework Ontology. Version 1.0.1. Available at: http://metadata.cbd.int/kmgbf/ontology

Contact

For questions about this service, contact secretariat@cbd.int.