Jordan’s national targets address several core components of GBF Target 8, particularly those related to enhancing ecosystem resilience, promoting nature-based solutions, strengthening climate preparedness, and reducing pollution risks that worsen climate-driven impacts. The national targets support climate adaptation through ecosystem-based resilience, sustainable and biodiversity-friendly agriculture, and measures that reduce chemical pressures on ecosystems, thereby helping minimize the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification, in line with GBF Target 8.

However, several critical elements of the global target remain insufficiently addressed. The national targets do not specify quantitative reductions in climate-related ecosystem vulnerability, nor do they include measurable adaptation outcomes, such as ecosystem-based mitigation contributions, climate-risk mapping, or explicit targets to reduce drivers of ocean acidification. There is also no national commitment to resilience thresholds, blue-carbon protection, or monitoring of climate-sensitive ecosystems. These gaps mean that Jordan’s national targets only partially reflect the full scope and ambition of GBF Target 8.