Outputs include one or more grant proposals addressing both the information needs and the analytical framework needs identified through the project. We anticipate additional top journal publications and conference presentations on what are already some internationally prominent topics (e.g. GDM and ED and PD/GD methods). Outputs also include first analyses based on the toolbox and expanding information base created by the project. Example outputs include estimates of how much biodiversity has been lost since 1972; estimates of how balanced planning might shift the "curve" reflecting rates of biodiversity loss in the context of the 2010 target; estimates of areas containing either high species or high PD-endemism; estimates of collateral biodiversity benefits to be associated with carbon accounting efforts. Another output is course material for an ongoing "bioinformatics" course at ANU.The outcomes naturally include useful new multi-disciplinary collaborations. Outcomes importantly include a range of enhanced capabilities to talk about overall biodiversity in the context of the 2010 biodiversity target, climate and land-use change scenarios, and trade-offs based conservation planning.The project may provide a first working example of the "biodiversity calculus" called for by the MA, enabling 1) better estimation of biodiversity patterns for Australian planning and scenarios analysis, and 2) integrated use of biodiversity conservation instruments (payments to private land owners; new protected areas), so promoting sustainability through better synergies and trade-offs with other needs of society.An important outcome specific to the 2010 target may be take-up of the idea that measurement of success against the target must integrate land-clearing and other factors reflecting other needs of society.

Working group members (initial group)

"In decision VI/26 the Conference of the Parties adopted the Strategic Plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity. In its mission statement, Parties committed themselves to a more effective and coherent implementation of the three objectives of the Convention, to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on earth.

This target was subsequently endorsed by the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
In decision VII/30 the Conference of the Parties adopted a framework to facilitate the assessment of progress towards 2010 and communication of this assessment, to promote coherence among the programmes of work of the Convention and to provide a flexible framework within which national and regional targets may be set, and indicators identified.
The framework includes seven focal areas. The Conference of the Parties identified indicators for assessing progress towards, and communicating the 2010 target at the global level, and goals and sub-targets for each of the focal areas, as well as a general approach for the integration of goals and sub-targets into the programmes of work of the Convention.
Parties are invited to establish their own targets and identify indicators, within this flexible framework." (quoted from https://www.biodiv.org/2010-target/)

Faith, DP & Ferrier S 2005. Good news and bad news for the 2010 biodiversity target. Science Online, 6 Mar 2005

Carbon accounting toolbox
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/ncas/

National Carbon Accounting Toolbox CD - a set of tools for tracking greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stock changes from land use and management, including the FullCAM modelling software and Data Builder.
Data Viewer DVD - a unique 30-year visual record of landscape and vegetation change in Australia since 1972, as seen through 5 national snapshots of Landsat satellite data.

Participants at the First DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference: "Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being" called for a properly resourced international panel on biodiversity. (Oaxaca declaration )