Jordan’s national targets address several key elements of GBF Target 1, particularly the expansion and enhancement of protected and conserved areas and the strengthening of inclusive, integrated biodiversity-sensitive spatial planning. These national targets contribute directly to identifying, mapping, and managing areas of high biodiversity importance, and to ensuring that spatial planning reduces fragmentation and ecological degradation. By integrating biodiversity considerations into land-use planning and expanding the coverage and effectiveness of protected areas, Jordan supports the core objective of GBF-T01: reducing the loss of areas of high biodiversity importance to near zero.

However, several aspects of GBF-T01 are not fully covered. The national targets do not specify quantitative or time-bound benchmarks for identifying all areas of high biodiversity value, nor do they include explicit requirements for assessing ecosystem integrity, connectivity, or threat levels as part of spatial planning. The targets also lack explicit commitments to Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs), ecological corridors, or national criteria for defining Key Biodiversity Areas and ecologically representative networks. In addition, no mechanisms are described for periodic reassessment of spatial plans or the effectiveness of protected areas in line with GBF monitoring standards. These elements will require further elaboration to ensure full alignment with GBF-T01.