In general, goals specific to societal “responses” to biological invasions are very poorly developed, as is the availability of data on response plans and response monitoring (section 6.6.3; Vicente et al., 2021). Nonetheless, some components of existing invasion targets and associated indicators fall into this “response” category, and these are highly relevant to the governance for biological invasions at global and national scales. These include the existence and uptake of multilateral agreements and national legislation relevant to the prevention and control of invasive alien species, and resourcing of invasive alien species prevention and control activities (McGeoch et al., 2010; Pagad et al., 2020; section 6.6.3).