The COP16 on Biodiversity in Rome approved a package of 23 indicators (Targets) to measure progress toward the 23 goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework in a document called L-26. Conducting monitoring of implemented biodiversity actions and measuring progress is critical to achieving concrete results and optimizing investments.

These indicators are key to assessing the effective implementation of the global framework and monitoring the progress of nations in achieving the goals; they cover ecological, economic, cultural and social dimensions, providing an integrated picture. Although developed primarily for large-scale institutional, political and territorial contexts, these indicators can also find application in the cultural context.

In particular, with the research project, it was evaluated how museums and ecomuseums, can contribute to the application of a package of indicators, including adapting them to specific missions and practices; and then coming up with a set of key indicators, in relation to the COP Targets. In this perspective, museums, as cultural and scientific presidia, not only document biodiversity, but can become actors and actively contribute to the preservation, enhancement, restoration and communication of biodiversity through different lines of action.

As part of the project, the role of museums as social agents in governance processes for the sustainable transition of biodiversity and food systems was investigated by mapping ecomuseums and community museums in the Mediterranean, and an index measuring their “Webpage Engagement Capacity”was constructed.

Adapting COP indicators to the museum context allows museums’ concrete actions to be enhanced and their impact to be measured over time, contributing to participatory monitoring of global goals. This approach promotes a systemic and integrated vision, in which biodiversity is not just a scientific issue but a shared responsibility.