Development of City Biodiversity Index

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The City Biodiversity Index (Singapore Index, CBI) is authorized at the COP 10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. However, the index has issues to be reconsidered, such as the environment of each city, applicability etc. So, we re-examined the evaluation methods from the viewpoints of ‘biodiversity’, ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘governance’ to apply on Japanese cities. And, we successfully committed to establish a Japanese version of CBI (preliminary edition) compiled by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. We also revealed the various knowledge and methods to improve the evaluation methods, including genetic diversity evaluation of plants in isolated forests, and urban forest habitat evaluation method using intensive airborne LiDAR.